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Our first tech toy...

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I am not sure if you people remember this ad, but it stirs my childhood memories and I take a trip down memory lane when I was a scornful teenager and impervious to the world of responsibilities. I forgot the lyrics as I heard it almost 10 years back. I desperately searched it on YouTube by typing reliance ad and listened patiently to many of them. YouTube is such a great chronicle of memories. Finally I found this astounding piece of music with luscious lyrics. This song has strings attached with the first phone in my house. It was a reliance phone. It almost brought about death of the wristwatch. First hello was as exciting as my first hello world program! :D R world service for internet was free at that time. We used to wait for dad to hand over the mobile to us. All I remember is that there was an option to go into R world and from there different options used to appear like Music, News, Astrology, Cricket etc. I have faded memories of listening to tanha Dil song by Sha...

Karma just takes too long Sir!

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has apologized for the comments he made at a conference where he said that women should not ask for a raise , they should trust 'karma' and should have faith in system. His comments have sparked antagonism among female techies and various professional leaders. Isn't this fiercely sexist to tell women for not asking pay raises? Recollecting your Indian roots in this controversial manner was not expected from you dear Satya! But as we all know Karma is such a bitch and it has always missed on so many people :D so we can't trust it. Ironically he is from the industry where there is no gender diversity. but it is good that he clearly apologized and did not twist his words. He just accepted that he was completely wrong and said that he learnt a valuable lesson. So after this incident I went through corporate Gender Gap Report brought out by world economic forum which says that India has the lowest percentage of women employees and also if...