zigzackly’s omnium-gatherum

In the last few days of 2007, Indian advertising lost one of its true legends. Kersy Katrak, founder of the almost mythical MCM, my NCD at t...

Richard M. Stallman, explaining the free software concept, said “Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept...

Creative Commons, through whose licenses so many of us bloggers release our posts, turns five on Saturday, 15th December, 2007. They're ...

We were just wondering what would happen to this thinker if he tried out his theories in Bombay traffic. Or worse still, in Delhi! Serious...

This is a proposal from a friend, Anjan Ray, left as a comment on a post at the Citizens for Peace blog . To my mind, there is only one way ...

Go see The 'Winners' of the Wired News Saddest-Cubicle Contest . Top that? We can, actually. But we have a deadline. Maybe we'll...

This email just in via Arka Mukhopadhyay, Trina Nileena Banerjee and others. From: Anjum Katyal Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:12 PM Sub...

We saw a couple of dandy neologisms the other day, and we just have to share. The beauty of these is that they don't require an explanat...

This story in the Guardian (no mentions yet in the Indian media) gives the lie to claims about child labour being banned. An extract: Child...

We just discovered (thanks to Poonam ), that Indra Sinha quoted us in a piece in Tehelka . Not by name—he calls us "a book blogger...