Crypto regulation is antithesis to the idea of crypto. But, of course, as always anarchy has failed or is failing. The biggest problem with anarchy is that it magnifies the penetration and power of evil genius. In fact, till the time an evil genius is only attacking the poor masses, there is no...

Board Member 1: Please introduce yourself Interviewee: I am ABC. I am resident of Delhi and have done graduation from IIT-D. I have interests in new tech development (developed a voting system for hostel committee members for day-to-day decision making using blockchain technology), swimming...

It is beneficial to briefly define Web 3, Internet of Things (IoT),  and Metaverse, along with Artificial Intelligence (AI), before expressing my opinion on the topics included in the above caption. Web 3: Web 3 simply speaking means decentralized internet with or without centralized internet...

The last week of cryptos has brought about a fundamental change in the perspective: nobody is talking of crypto market bullishness. Some very good DeFi (Decentralized Finance) coins have been butchered so much that now they are hugely undervalued. You can buy them at December 2020 prices. In my...

It would be foolhardy to claim that bitcoin has a bright future without any resistance. There is no doubt that bitcoin is an excellent idea for disruption, but that per se is no guarantee of success. Even a tech entrepreneur who gets full support from the nationalist governments can’t get success...

The first name that comes to mind when you think of cryptos is bitcoin, but the cryptos don’t start and end with bitcoin. The core idea of cryptos is distributed ledger, a database transcending proprietary servers. A database is a very boring but essential element of any computer system. The...

It is now banal to call bitcoin the digital gold; however, the truth is far from it. bitcoin is the token used in Bitcoin, the blockchain, to pay transaction fees, and also it is mined by miners everytime they add a new block to the blockchain. Mining of bitcoin is not a necessity to run the...

I tested positive for Covid on 18.04.21. The symptoms started on 14.04.21 evening. I had fever, constipation & diarrhea, upper respiratory tract symptoms, and extreme body ache for five days. Then body ache subsided, but fever continued for two more days. Constipation & diarrhea, and...

Elsewhere I have failed to recognise terrorism on more occasions than one; so, do I fail here as well. The use of the word “terrorism” here is a mere reflection on the aspirations of the civilized society as it exists today. Yes, it expects terrorism in some form or the other. Till I am able to...

I have developed pimples in my feet treading on the difficult path of dharma and action. Now my feet tread only on the road less traveled, so let’s do Tandav. I have wept so much that tears have formed a smiling line on my countenance. Now tears on my face only produce laughter, so let’s do...

I have work to do. I am born, and I have to make the parents get my birth certificate. I am not a toddler anymore. I have to work hard to join a school. I have grown bigger. I have to workout, build muscles, get a partner and ... I did it, but the real work starts now. I have to get a job. I...

My friend, the sparrow, left after I joined 3G to Twitter. I didn’t recognize the breakup because the sparrow was also a Twitter. On the mountains, she joined again, where there was no Twitter. She was not a Twitter; it was Twitter who made her look like a Twitter. I took a selfie with her...

Sound, sound, make me sleep. Sleep my baby, I will play you a lullaby. Sound, sound, wake me up. Wake up boy, here is your alarm. Sound, sound, I am going jogging. Wait...I will also rock with you. Sound, sound, I wanna read a book. Ok...I will call nature. Sound, sound, I...

Me: Did you have sex before creating the world? God: With Whom? Me: Was there nobody? Why didn’t you create somebody? God: I need nobody. Me: Then why did you create everybody? God: To control. Me: To control what? The world or yourself? God: I don’t need any control. Me: Nobody ever...

The dog barked to show disapproval, the man petted him further more. The parrot parroted to mock fun, the man produced him as witness in court. The lizard scooted to escape unhurt, the man started collecting her tail. The monkey snatched food to claim his right, the man made him his...

Green is wild, but Orange often escapes into Green with or without burning it into Red. Red & Orange are different, but Yellow easily turns Red into Orange and Orange into Red. Pink is beautiful, but when White is less it is indistinguishable from Red. Red is blood, but it often...

She knows nobody, for everybody knows her. Everybody knows her, for everybody protects her. Everybody protects her, for she may not get hurt. She is not hurt, for everybody is happy. Everybody is happy, for she is alive. She is alive, for she suffers no pain. She suffers no...

Adhir Ranjan Chaudhury has raised an important question in Lok Sabha: Is Kashmir an internal matter of India? The question has been raised in the context of the dispute raised by India before the United Nations, which makes Pakistan an interested party in Kashmir. This is indeed a factual...

My only objective of this AADHAAR judgment analysis is to consolidate arguments on the question of punishment in case of any contempt of court proceedings and to highlight errors apparent on the face of record in the judgment. I am only analysing the majority judgment by Sikri J. I have committed...

"Why I am Hindu?" presented me with a partial opportunity to gauge Hinduism of the Congress. Tharoor may not be the representative thought on Hinduism in the Congress -- in fact I know the Congress is majorly influenced by Kashmiri Saivism, of which the book tells almost nothing -- but his is the...

The tweet by the Kerala tourism inviting Karnataka MLAs to Kochi resorts was witty indeed, but was it just witty or more than that? Kerala tourism deleted the tweet subsequently. Why? Some regional newspaper say the tweet was criticised as being in bad taste. I doubt it. All I know it garnered...

Some people call rape even more heinous than murder. They opine rape is manifestation of political dominance of the stronger males over weaker females. They consider rape as nothing more than violence. As per the commonly accepted definition of rape, penetration of foreign substance into any of...

Judge Loya judgment has been rendered on a group of petitions seeking investigation into the death of Judge Loya. The only issue in the case was whether the inquest report prepared u/s 174 CrPC closing the case on the finding that the death was due to natural causes, was correct. Let me state at...

The Supreme Court of India in it's recent judgement in Common Cause has included the right to dignified death by withholding/withdrawing medical treatment in case of terminal illness requiring prolonged treatment or subjection to life support systems with incurability or no hope of curability, as...

My answer to the question vide the above caption is NOTHING. Whatever I am writing below will rationalize my answer with the presumption that Tripura election results are genuine; i.e., there was no EVM manipulation, no booth capturing, no bribery of voters, no hypnosis of voters (ok that's...

It is necessary and important that a stable daily market wage rate of professional protestors be established for the benefit of the business, who presently pay disproportionately high rates to activists and politiicans for launching fabricated protests through their captive corporate media....

The Review Bitcoins have been nudging my financial instincts, which I have kept dormant for a decade and a half, but beginning this year the gentle nudges turned into wild attacks loud enough to wake up any indolent mind from its slumber: even a whisper of 1200% return on investment in a...

"Claims on Privacy" is an essay justifying the categorization of privacy as a generic natural right like the right to life and liberty. An inextricable link has been drawn between dignity and privacy in the essay through the life story of a fictional character XYZ as no contour can really be...

The recent suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyar just doesn't reconcile with the current political scenario. The apparent reason, as stated by Rahul Gandhi, is as incredible as Rahul Gandhi himself. Nobody can suspend a long time loyalist of the family for calling Modi a Neech Aadmi. More confusing is...

To be frank, I found Rahul Gandhi an amenable person till not very long ago, but now when he has decided to project himself for prime minister ship, the fact he is a loser has become prominent. He is an incorrigible loser deserving sympathy but no faith. Of course, a loser can learn and win but...

The patrons of the pen are those who immerse themselves in books and dream of the world where there is no bloodshed. The patrons of the sword are those who kill humans and beasts alike giving the benefit of doubt always to self. Both like colors, but the pen likes rainbow and the sword likes...

In the sky, above the clouds, my kite is flying with the pretty sparrow, whom she tweets day and night. She returns to me at the end of the day and just before the dark night, but I fear one day she will break the thread of friendship and disappear beyond my searching eyes. I can fetter her...

I am inquisitive today. Can I go into the past and change the future? Can I go into the future and experience the past? What if I go into the past, change everything, and am re-born a boy? What if I go into the future and love myself re-born as boy? Gods are infuriated again, but Why? Is...

Dimples on my cheeks caused many a traffic jams, but nobody cares to kiss me today. My lovers would not let me sleep even for a second, but there is not one in sight today. The pimp at the signal, who sold me like a prostitute, is not soliciting the clients today. The new bitch round the...

Each part of his body has complied to the call of the alarm, but the eyes revolt. The hot water bath has put his brain once again in the charge, but the eyes revolt. He is trying to cajole the eyes with the American dream, but the eyes revolt. The eyes have been confined inside the dark...

She was destined to love till eternity each time afresh with a new lover in moonlight. Victims of love were teased with unsatiating drops of nectar garnished with love cries. Her lovers were not spared for another lover, for she desexed them in her dreamy smile. She was cursed to love her...

Intrepretation • The practice of Triple Talaq is not part of personal law but statutory law vide Nariman J and Lalit J. • The practice of Triple Talaq is part of personal law not statutory law vide CJI, Nazeer J. • The practice of Triple Talaq is neither part of personal law nor statutory...

What threatens the travelers the most? Conflict Zones, Natural Disasters, Lack of Funds, Nostalgia, Threat of Sickness, Distrust of People, Wild Encounters, or NATIONS! By far, it should be nations. Nations create borders, which creation restricts movement, and, in case of big nations like the...

There have been only two burning issues in media for the last two days: the Gujarat Rajya Sabha elections and Varnika Kundu. I thought Varnika Kundu stalking case will lose to the Gujarat elections, but not really. The Chandigarh police has given it a new lease of life yesterday. The lady (with...

In the recent war on Privacy, the government has taken a novel stand in the Supreme Court of India that Right to Privacy is a constitutional right under Article 300A of the Indian Constitution but is not a fundamental right. Article 300A saves the right to property of the people and reads as...

Published on 18.07.2017 To be very frank, I had no intention to publish the review of the book 'Left, Right and Centre' by Nidhi Razdan on my blog. I prefer to review only well-deserving books on my blog. This book doesn't seem to be one of them. The only motivation for writing this review...

Context As per the news reports, an FIR against All India Bakchod (AIB) books them u/s 67 IT Act read with s. 500 IPC for tweeting a meme showing Modi look-alike in one frame and Modi with the Snapchat Dog Filter in another, with the caption Wanderlust (see the featured image). Section 500 IPC...

  (This review was first published on the Facebook page of the book 'Kerala Hugged' on 30.12.2016 and is being reproduced here today) Should an author write a review of his own book? Why not if he is willing to highlight just the negative points, esp when he has read the book hundred...

Published on 11.07.2017 Not in My Name, which started as a movement against mob lynching, has lost all direction today after they have decided to protest "terrorist" attack on Amarnath pilgrims. From what I can gather on Twitter, Omar Abdullah was the first one to use the hashtag #NotInMyName...

Behind Bars by Sunetra Choudhury is a compilation of case studies of prisoners with an underlying current of exposing the unfairness of life, which gets even further accentuated behind bars. She has tried her best to accommodate all kinds of players in her compilation: politicians, corporate...

Our school invariably had two sections across the board: Section A and Section B. Section A was reserved for students living in Vihars: Preet Vihar, Swasthya Vihar, Priyadarshini Vihar, Nirman Vihar, etc. Section B was reserved for Nagars: Laxmi Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Ganesh Nagar, Pandav Nagar,...

(Please read the comments dt. 27.06.2017 at the bottom.)   Published on 06.06.2017 Over the years, I have grown cynical esp. when it comes to the BJP. They pursue completely frivolous matters with such diligence that the matters start looking serious. The current raid on NDTV's promoters...

(This article was first published on August 15, 2016, and has been republished today, i.e. 26.06.2017, with slight modifications) GST stands for Goods and Services Tax. The other three terms in the same realm are Value Added Tax (VAT)/Sales Tax and Service Tax. All these are indirect taxes,...

Data is processed each single moment of a person's life. Even before he starts making sense of the world around him, he is assigned a name by the proximate lovers, which is followed by numerous other names as per the convenience and personal preferences of the extended lovers. Some jilted lovers...

The Supreme Court of India has recently delivered the AADHAAR-PAN judgment on the validity of S. 139AA of the Income Tax Act, vide which the quoting of AADHAAR no. for filing Income Tax returns post July 1, 2017; quoting of AADHAAR no. in any new application for allocation of PAN post July 1,...

Spamming is repeated messaging to the same addressee or automated messaging of the same message to multiple addressees. It is separate and distinct from privacy infringement. There is no privacy infringement in spamming but... Spamming is differentiated from advertising by the legitimacy of...

The Oligopolists' Market: Amazon Hegemony Amazon is the member of the internet oligopoly comprising Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon -- most of the time internet is surfed on smartphones; therefore, Apple is included. Amongst these, Apple, Google and Amazon are also in the e-book...

What India has done in case of Kulbhushan Jadhav is either stupidity or b.....ness. Commonsense tells me that the stay on Kulbhushan Jadhav's death sentence may ironically kill him. But for Sushma Swaraj, I would have harboured no doubt and called it b.....ness -- this lady is genuinly stupid....

I am married to a "Revolver Rani" type girl, who abandons me for I can't fire my GUN on target. However, I love her so much that I file a petition for restitution of conjugal rights in a matrimonial court. In the meantime, my beloved "Revolver Rani" murders an innocent guy in cold blood, who like...

(#AntiNationalism #AntiNationalHumanist) (Note: This blog was published on 30.10.2015) The nations exists to segregate one class of people from another. There are indeed instances of dual and multiple nationality existing within the same country, and also there are examples of the same...

Privacy Principles 1. All information is private unless made public. 2. The natural owner of any information is the one to whom the information pertains, and, unless there is a procedure established by law, it can’t be created/recorded by a third party, including in human memory, without the...

Circa 2014, a new Don appeared on the Indian political scene with a "56 inch chest". He doesn't sleep, he doesn't think, he just acts with his right hand and shags with the left. His right hand worships cows, protects women from "Love Jehadis", gags liberal voices, etc, which is the new normal....

This linked article, https://thewire.in/136848/pak-india-kulbhushan-jadhav-icj/, has very comprehensively stated the facts of and arguments taken in Kulbhushan Jadhav case pending before the ICJ. Further, the author has put up his own arguments in the article. However, it is written by an Indian,...

As per law laid down by the DHC, Triple Talaq is void in Delhi, and in each case of Triple Talaq, the Talaq would be considered as a single revocable Talaq: Masroor Ahmad v. NCT of Delhi. The Supreme Court will have to just endorse the DHC judgment to lay down the same law for the country. What's...

These disputes would relate, if not entirely, substantially to the interpretation of the Vienna Convention and its application to the facts of the case. The fate of #KulbhushanJadhav hangs on this statement of Harish Salve. Will it succeed? Now let me explain the significance of the...

It is a curious case of Justice Karnan because he has been very inconsistent in his approach. He is neither strictly legal nor political. He is choosing his course of actions as per his conveneince. When required he would tender unconditional apology and even claim himself to be medically unfit,...

Privacy is derived from the word "private", which is an antonym of the word "public." There has always been a conflict between the society and the individual, so much so that some thoughts in sociology even consider privacy a disease. Though, obviously, such thoughts are corrupt because privacy...

When I watched the movie “Minority Report”, I was scared to death on the prospect of robot-police entering the bedrooms of people for taking their IRIS scans to catch an alleged criminal not because I am a criminal but because I don’t trust the State, especially the Police. But, it was just a...

Everybody has encountered that feeling of being watched by the Big Brother. That's called surveillance. Different people react differently to it: some revolt; some curse; but the majority comply. Childhood is the best time especially if there is nobody bigger than you amongst your siblings and...

It is being argued by many authors that with technology the traditional focus of privacy of that of injunction on the State from collecting private, personal information sans consent is no longer relevant. This seems to be the new politics of privacy, i.e. the Aadhaar politics. To be very...

Image Credit: www.elftown.com The "wise" men decided that the "subsidies" need to be targeted only to those who have small eyes with even smaller dreams. The "wise" men talked to even "wiser" men -- who call it loan, not subsidies, when it applies to themselves -- who advised the "wise" men to...

The definition of privacy is very clear: an individual has right over his personal information and nobody can appropriate it without the permission of the individual concerned. AADHAR bill is forcing every citizen of India to divulge his or her biometric details like retinal/IRIS scan information...

Brain research is a fledgling area. The documented objectives of the research include understanding the complex working of the brain for medicinal, surgical and artificial intelligence purposes. The undocumented objectives include mind control, especially for the purpose of “intelligence and...

The MCD election results have activated an inactive AAP volcano. The name of the volcano is Kumar Vishwas. He is a poet, who passes lewd comments on poetesses. If this AAP volcano erupts, indeed it would cause huge damage not only to the AAP but also to innumerable bystanders, who might have just...

  WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT! In a borderless world, all would be travelers indeed. India is a small borderless world in itself, and Kerala lies at its southernmost tip. The author lives near the lovely Kashmir, but does that make Kerala any less lovely! This book is indeed author's baby born...