Culture

  • How food delivery apps have transformed the market

    It’s hard to imagine a life without Swiggy or Zomato. How did apps like these emerge and how do they affect food suppliers? And are some of the services disadvantaging the market’s players? These days, when hungry at home, we…

  • How the feisty Kalpana Chawla found her wings

    Kalpana Chawla, the first woman astronaut of Indian origin, carved her own destiny from a small town to outer space, with her grit and determination. Read some little-known facts about this well-known astronaut. We know of Kalpana Chawla as the…

  • Cyberpunk 2077, Keanu Reeves, and the future of virtual gaming

    Keanu Reeves makes much more than a cameo appearance in CD Projekt’s soon-to-be-released video game Cyberpunk 2077! Will the launch of Microsoft’s and Google’s cloud-gaming technologies make the home console a thing of the past? Let’s take a look at…

  • Measuring with Ma Nature’s units

    Did you know you are as wide as you are tall? Just stretch your arms out in the famous Titanic pose and measure your arm span! Though we comply with international units of measurement today, our old systems of measurement were…

  • Why Netflix clicks with audiences and filmmakers alike

    Streaming platforms like Netflix have enabled new cinema to emerge in exciting ways and these often turn out to be great alternatives to mainstream cinema. What makes this phenomenon possible? We explore. I’m 10 minutes into watching Nanette on Netflix…

  • 5 Popular Indoor Games That You Can Now Play Online

    These games have been part of our childhoods. Now revive those times by playing them on your mobile screen! Let’s take a look at these 5 indoor games that have been perfectly adapted into their digital avatars. Long gone are…

  • Five Mobile Phone Games Every Creative Person Ought to Play

    While games are a surefire stress-busting recreational choice, who knew that they can also awaken the creativity in you! Come, find out which games to download to get the creative juices flowing. From the crude and basicSnake to the thrilling…

  • Whatsapp Fever in Seniors

    With over 1.2 billion active monthly users WhatsApp is the most popular mobile app for sharing messages. Its impact on how the young socialise is phenomenal, but equally unsettling is to know its influence on the 50+ age group of…

  • Digitalizing Frequencies, One Channel at a Time

    If you are young and Indian, with a head full of dreams – someone like me, who imagines her life being played out to changing background scores – it is difficult to imagine these scores without that quintessential radio static…

  • Prisma: Turning Photos into Masterpieces and How!

    If only VanGogh or Chagall could paint your picture. Now, in Prisma, they can. I am always the one, who is troubled by the pressure of clicking a good photograph. This further increases anxiety when I am putting something out…

  • Talking Tesla: The Creative Car Ninja

    How does an automobile company roll out its ‘labour of love’ to the world without making any noise?  No celebratory hoots or self-appreciating applause or tall loops of praises are heard– well then that’s Tesla. Its ‘Zero policy’ that says…

  • Games People Play : The Curious Rise Of The Indian Art Video Game

    Imagine tripping into Lewis Caroll’s ‘Wonderland’ and living it up like Alice in an overwhelming parallel universe. Well, good news is you don’t need to trip down a hole in your backyard but click play on Studio Oleomingus’s game Timruk, a vivid digital game world that…