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JohnnySokoAndTheFlyingRobots & Maya Studios Launched

We recently launched JohnnySokoAndTheFlyingRobots.com as the first project of Maya Studios, a design studio that I've started recently. Naukari, I realize is not my cup of tea so gave up my job as the creative director (new media) six months ago and started Maya Studios. While we

Leadership

You are as good as your team wants you to be.

Love is a Framework

So the other day, Mittul came over, and in the course of our discussions we realised Love is a framework Some one makes it, and for the lucky ones, Some one else fleshes it out. Vikram PS: And for people who are really really lucky, many "Some ones"

Noam Chomsky (2013) "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013, the Askwith Forum commemorated the 45th anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" with a discussion about the book's impact and relevance to education today.

Give peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance (C'mon) Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout

Ice Maiden v/s Hot Cup Cake

Photo by: PlingeSo the other day I was chatting with a friend of mine who calls herself, "Ice Maiden", because she thinks she's cold etc... as if every one is dripping with warmth etc... Duh! So anyway, while talking to her I thought, given the choice,

The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)

Directed by Ted Parmelee Narrated by James Mason This is one of the top 50 best animation films ever or so they say... Awesome I say. However, there is a deviation from the plot: It is the old man's vulture like eye, an eye from which nothing escaped,

The Raven

This is perhaps one of those piecese of poetry that I genuinely like. The Raven was written by Edgar Allen Poe, the story teller. The scary story teller. He wrote for his wife Virginia Poe, who died after a long suffering. Some say he accelerated her death in order to

from burnt norton

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. - T S Eliot

Holi etc...

Picture by: bahlsonu (Flickr)We can, and we do, go to any ones house and make a grab at the women, So the other day it was Holi… a major north Indian Aryan color throwing festival. People get “hi” on local pot and liquor and roam around the streets painting