Photograph by Will Okun Journalism can make us care — or it can numb us to human suffering. China is a major fixation in my imagination, but this fascination doesn’t help much. I keep stacking away essentials to to-read shelves. China Wakes is an excellent exception. It just happens to be a terrific book by Continue Reading

Meet John Doe is nothing short of a triumph of Riskin the individual over Capra the institution. Also published on mFC on Jan 6, 2012 The last day of December demands introspection, and I sense a now all-too-familiar pressure to choose the right words for this end note. The year on the calendar upsets my plans. Continue Reading

How to make a brand stand out from the crowd? Make people’s lives—and the world—better and more meaningful. Co.Exist editor, Morgan Clendaniel, writes that companies that aren’t making a difference—to the world and to consumers—aren’t going to be around much longer. Instead of just making your product incrementally better than the competitor, you need to Continue Reading

The truth about social advertising & how to get more for your spending It pains me to see how a great idea is being crushed under the weight of unsympathetic brand managers. It is sad when you’ve to cook up feel-good stories when the original idea—if executed right— could produce real, outstanding results. Key to Social Continue Reading

A must-see movie for educators: The Professor’s Beloved Equation Paul talks about The Book. The Book has all the theorems of Mathematics. Theorems can be proved in a lot of different ways but in the Book, there is only one proof. And it is the one that is the clearest proof; the one that gives Continue Reading

“The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.” “Who is the father of computer?” I asked my 9-year-old niece. “Charles Babbage,” she replied promptly. Then I asked her, “And who is the father of cinema?” “What is cinema?” the fourth grader asked me. “It’s the art of films,” I tried to Continue Reading

“I think that the interactivity of New Media is a false promise… The game is rigged, and what is invited is not honest contemplation, but merely “figuring out the next movie.” Audience Activity A film, without any visible protagonist, plays with the audience and forces them to become active as the invisible protagonist. The audience Continue Reading

ee cummings: To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. “Here’s a recent quote that I found: ‘we do not talk, we bludgeon one another with Continue Reading

There are certain moments that I’ve waited so yearningly but when the moments finally arrived, I was not there to witness them. What could an aspiring writer eagerly wait but his publication? One day I was at my college, by chance, and saw a group of students hanging around the notice board. Some eyes were Continue Reading