Fueling Thoughts

  A favourite grouse of my fellow North-east Indians(many with an acute case of angry nigger syndrome) is that the rest of the countrymen know nothing about their area, confuse them with Nepalis or Chinese, think that tea grows in every backyard and so on and forth. That is, till they are reminded that they too know nothing about places like Kerala or Chhattisgarh and the people who live there. Because till about a decade or two back, the few times anyone ventured out was either to study, enrol their children in an educational institution or for health check-ups or cancer treatment in Vellore.  Besides, ignorance about other states and the geography of the country is endemic everywhere. My favourite example being an NCO from Signals Corps of the Indian Army who travelled with me on a train to Goa for some advanced training at the Army Signal Training Center in Bambolim.  An M.Sc. degree holder by his own admission, in his excitement of getting to see Goa and the sea, the ...

Linkedin is a platform that had first morphed from a professional and cribbing HR's network into a jobseekers forum, now is just a little more refined Facebook with kitty videos and children's drawings (at least previous work's drivers and handymen don't send me friend requests, if it sounds elitist so be it, I don't GAF). We have all manners of Deshbakts(Modi cultists), Trump, Russia and China bashing self-righteous inquisitors, hysterical climatistas, weeping willows, trolls of every form, and plagiarists aplenty. Ghost-written posts by high and mighty influencers to those promoted by paid ones.  Where having 10,000 connects equal to adding 2 inches in the chest or between the legs, depending on your gender. And now we have the LinkedIn Jail, Censorship and the threat of being deplatformed without a warning. In short the writing on the wall says, time to redevelop your website and start blogging there in parallel, because you never know when LinkedIn will deem yo...