We all know the apocryphal joke about opinions and a**holes. There's a grain of truth in every joke and at an individual level, the value of your opinion does indeed diminish rapidly as you move radially outward in your social and professional universe, with its importance the maximum at the center of [...]
I was born into a nuclear family of two eminent scientist parents, who passed on to me not just their genes but their spirit of constant curiosity and scientific inquiry. I was brought up in Calcutta of the seventies and eighties, when the city, despite its frequent plunges into power-cut darkness, was still abuzz [...]
We just launched StreetBuzz, an app that helps strangers get together around shared interests. I personally want to see it breaking down the little bubbles of our personal networks and getting absolute strangers across the world together, sharing ideas and opinions and helping each other out. I believe as people of the [...]
