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Happy Birthday to Me: Downsides of Being Born on a Popular Day
First thing’s first. When I google “What’s my age?”, it says 29 years, 8 hours and 11 minutes as on 1930 hours on 31st December, 2020. So stop saying that I have turned 30. This is my Joey moment from ‘Friends’ and I can totally relate to him. Secondly, for those of you who have…
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Should I Invest in Stock Market?
Do you accidentally switch to NDTV Profit on your TV and see all those charts in green and red? There are some people talking absolute gibberish and you think, “thank god I am not a part of this madness“. Well, I do not question your mindset as I used to be on the same page,…
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10 Unprecedented Harmful Effects of Internet
In India, we enjoy world’s cheapest internet. With a Gigabyte of data at $0.23, it could not get any better. Internet revolution has changed the landscape of our country in so many ways. With a smartphone penetration of ~600 million, not only do we have one of the world’s largest active user base but we…
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Secret Santa That Isn’t Secret Anymore: Parents
At some point in our lives, we have heard or actually realised the fact “Khwahisho ka koi ant nahi“ (there is no end to wishes). Every time I have some spare cash in hand, I can instantly make a list of 100 worldly possessions I can use it to buy. The same is applicable when…
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Rise of Intelligence Investment: Upside AI Smallcase
Nope, that is not a typo. I am not referring to the ‘intelligent investment’, rather we will discuss a latest vogue of the investment world: Intelligence Investment. In the last 50 years, computing power has gone up by a trillion times. Primarily, what ‘Terminator: Rise of Machines’ showed us a couple of decades ago, is…
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The Great Franklin Templeton Wind Up Conundrum
2020 in it’s entirety has been a unique experience for the entire world. With smallest examples of Google shutting down for a while to the bigger ones like Wimbledon and Olympics being postponed, the world has seen it all. This post is dedicated to one such noteworthy incident that occurred on April 23rd, 2020 when…
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Best New Year Resolution: Finance Version
2020- The year of terrors, is finally coming to an end. With vaccine on the horizon, I would love to believe that pandemic is a thing of past now and we can get back to our “Old Normal“. However, criticism apart, this global pandemic has taught us a lot of valuable lessons. With reduced expenditure…
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5 Weird Reasons I Hate Winter Season!
It’s that time of the year again. My wife is so excited about purchasing and wearing warmer clothes, boots. My mother is putting all the quilts in sun to get rid of the weird odor of odonil fresheners. My father couldn’t talk more about the food he is going to have this winter season. As…
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Technology Challenges Gen-Z Kids Won’t Know
Feeling old yet? Wait till this post ends. We have been lucky enough to be a part of the period where tech has crossed all leaps and bounds. With the exponential growth in the computing power over the last 50 years (>trillion times), we have come a really long way. Apart from that, I don’t…
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Best Memes Repository Ever: 9GAG
Memes have the capability of driving moods, marketing strategies and economies. Okay, may be the last part was a little exaggerated but memes are indeed powerful. I have so many college and school friends in touch with me just because of memes. We don’t talk to or call each other. It is just a random…
