Ideology through Society, Culture, Family and Sports

As I heard about the sudden demise of our own rocket scientist, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the heaviness my heart went through, made me realize what a colossal loss it is for the country and for humanity as a whole. During one of my birthdays a couple of years ago, I was gifted the "Wings of Fire" book, written by Mr APJ. I read the book a bit here and a bit there, but my Mother, who was with me for a few weeks that time, deep dived into it. Her reading habit wasn't really great, but she spent a considerable amount of time with the book, memorizing quotes, writing them in a notepad and explaining the significance of those, in the evening. I could sense a real freshness in her voice during those conversations. As I write these, I'm not sure she would have learnt about the heartbreaking news, the time of the day it is now, would have made her sleep. Tomorrow morning when she hears it, she will be nothing short of being crestfallen. Such is her admiration towards this ma...

Forgive my ignorance, forgive my poor knowledge - I wasn't even aware of who Steve Jobs is, until over a year ago. I had used the I-Pod at least 5 years ago, but I still was using it without actually knowing who would have been the key element behind the design and functioning of the device. My reading habit has been poor at best and my drive to know what’s happening in the world around has been pretty limited and I hope that explains. Back in 1995, when I was first exposed to computers, the first thing that my tutor had to talk about was the Operating System. As always is the case, it starts with DOS and we continue to learn on what is so special about an Operating System, why it is required, what are the operations it performs and a few other related aspects. We gradually move onto learning Windows which is far more decorated to look at and fascinating to work with. An interesting questions here - How many of us do realize that Macintosh and not Windows introduced the usage of...