There is a fantastic little piece here on the man whos life inspired the hit Malayalam movie, Jacobinte Swargarajyam. Go on and the read about how the real life tribulations of Gregory and his family reached Vineet Srinivasan, and lead to the creation of this awesome, feel good movie. Gregory comes across as a an exteremely optimistic, God fearing, and humble being. And Vineeth, he did a fantastic job directing the movie, which would have otherwise turned into a documentary newspiece.
Big Tech news today is Myntra’s decision to relaunch its desktop web site, reverting their decision to have only a mobile app as an interface. Looks like they maybe losing a lot of business with their app only strategy, and this u-turn is to make up for lost business.
Media is celebrating this as a victory, for the decision to go App only was received at that time as ridiculous, and customer unfriendly. It was surprising that parent company Flipkart would try to enforce their viewpoint on millions of reluctant customers, just to maybe speeden up development on their UX side. Personally I have never liked the mobile form factor for online browsing of products. The space and layout of the vertical larger desktop screen provided more options and flexibility. Neither the company nor the customers were ready for it.
So anyway, its good to know that inspite of smartphone penetration, the importance of desktop systems cannot yet be written off.
If there is one city on a ‘record breaking’ spree, its Bangalore. Last year,in November, the city recorded more than 256cm of rain, breaking the record of maximum rain received in that month in a 100 years.
This month, the city is breaking its temperature records, highest since 1931.
And this combined with the acute water shortage , is making the city more unliveable than ever before.
Today, Bangalore City was paralysed because garment workers demanded a rollback on all the EPF related changes proposed by the dickhead Finance Minister Jaitley. Touch the peoples savings, and they well not rest. Its surprising how the Finance Ministry can think of such idiotic steps so that they can meet their targets.
The Govt has put their new plans on hold.
Looks like the Indian Government has found the easiest way to impose curfews, disable mobile internet services. Interestingly, the actual mobile voice services remain active.
The internet has turned out to be the single most powerful tool in the hands of the modern protestor. The Middle Eeastern ‘Spring’ movements had proven this a few years ago. Any protest, anyone angry or unhappy, directly ‘posts’ their frustation on social media, and watch as the world spreads faster at the speed of light. Everyone on twitter seems angry, and its relatively mellow on facebook. But the truth is out, internet is the fastest way to spread word, any word. Which is why it is the first thing to be disabled in any region which goes through a turmoil. A few days ago, mobile internet was cut by the government in Kashmir during the Handwara unrest.
And its the same story today, in Gujarat, another state of India.
I guess the idea here to prevent spread of rumours and calls for agitations by protestors. But it paints a sorry picture, and is a kind of censoring as well.
