or Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam or Kannada has become super-easy now, thanks to the Google Indic Transliteration tool. This is a no-mess, no-fuss device and all you need to start typing in any of these Indian languages are the Ctrl and g keys – and knowledge of the language, of course!
I dearly love to write in my mother tongue but installing the font everytime I changed my machine proved to be a headache. I work from my laptop (Windows) and desktop (Mac) and the font is not Mac friendly. Plus, every …

Immigration has reared its head again in the UK and the past few days have seen a flurry of news articles on the impact immigrants are going to have on everything from population to house prices to job oppurtunities. While some flee to Britian, escaping from the hell their own country has become, others come here in search of better jobs. Latest population figures stating that by 2031, the country would boast 71 million people, is prompting people to ask the question: how can the UK cope?
With the widening of …

As I have been moaning on and off about my uni course, it won’t come as any surprise to you that I need all the help that I can get. Well, my dearly beloved netizens, I need your assistance to help me develop the prototype for a website. This will be active DURING the London 2012 Olympics. Please click on this link below to fill out the online questionnaire. Please spread the word too!

Click here to take our Online Survey

Also, I am to interview some folks in relation to Immigration …

A mother’s response when her son’s wedding preparations ends up in a spirited tug-of-war:
“It doesn’t matter, sweetheart. If I who have given birth to, raised and loved my son for almost 30 years will not be ready to adjust for his sake, how can I expect some girl who has known him a few months to make things easy for him? Can she love him more than I do? It’s up to me to ensure that he doesn’t get torn between wife and mother. Let him do what she wants. …

What price humanity?
On Bhogi, an aunt of mine lost her life in a road accident. The car in which she was travelling lost control and she was thrown out. As she lay wounded and bleeding, my uncle begging passing vehicles to stop and help them. For forty-five long minutes, he did so, with folded palms but none did. Finally, one kind-hearted gentlemen did but by then it was too late.
A life that could have been saved, has gone. All of those people who travelled on that stretch of road in …

 
What do you do when you are bored and are randomly surfing the net? Search for your favourite TV shows, play some games, Stumble upon something? Well, why don’t you log on to <”http://www.freerice.com/”>Free Rice</a>, exercise your brain and donate some desperately needed Third World rice in the bargain?
All you need to do are practice your vocabulary skills. For every question you get right, the organisation behind this effort donates 20 grains of rice. It used to be 10 but just a few days back, the count was doubled to …

I hate to admit it but I was a teensy-weensy bit scared. The scrawny guy in the corner looked mildly menacing. The blonde at the table looked in control while the Oriental lady a few feet away looked positively territorial.
I was petrified.
I have never seen the inside of a Laundromat before. I have walked past it a million times as it was a few doors down from my workplace but never ventured inside. I was, after all, the smug owner of a working washing machine, with a dryer, I might …

Last Saturday, when I was well into my weekly marathon yakking sessions with my mum back in Chennai, she gave me a piece of news that jolted me. One of the girls from my old school, a girl 7 years younger than myself, had just committed suicide.
I was like ‘WHAT?’ She also said a friend of hers killed herself the month before. What is happening to our youngsters? What prompts a 21-year-old, one who’s on the threshold of her life, to just end it, when the whole life is out …