I was having a conversation the other day with she-who-must-not-be-named about how social media has changed our lives. There came a point in the conversation when I started going blah blah about Twitter and how a simple idea has now turned into the Godzilla of social media. I suddenly realized that this friend of mine didn’t have a clue about what Twitter exactly was.

This news is exciting as the youths of Nepal have been given a chance to confront their opinions on the issues that concern them. The whole country is vibrated with a debate through a combination of mobile technology and radio networks. Yes, the Nepalese youths get the free SMS number facility to share their views, ….Click here to read complete post

Mr K R Gurukar, roadside tree planter, is pucca old school.  He vetoed an offer by well-wisher K N Sreenivasa to get him a cargo tricycle or at least, allow him to suitably modify his bicycle for carrying  with ease saplings and his planting-kit He doesn’t realise he has an image to be projected, and to be built on -  the image of  selfless public service with a touch of green. writes GVK

  At banks, there are machines for “cash withdrawing” and “cash recycling.” The menus of local restaurants might present such delectables as “fried enema,” “monolithic tree mushroom stem squid” and a mysterious thirst-quencher known as “The Jew’s Ear Juice.” For English speakers with subpar Chinese skills, daily life in China offers a confounding array of choices says Andrew jacobs