Life is too short to measure my days, my moments, and my memories by the amount of likes an Instagram picture got, how many Twitter followers I have, books I’ve sold, or steps I’ve taken.
Author: Nitesh Gautam
On Olympics 2016
Indian Lexophile
These are Indian “lexophile”
1. “Mujhe ek ghante se auto nahi mili, shayad bhagwaan meri paRICKSHAW le raha hai”
2. “My body is in office, but my mind is SOMVAR else” #Monday Blues
3. “I am feeling too lazy to meet my friends. AALSI them later”
4. “Son: Rum Piyoge?
Dad: Oye puttar ‘Bacar’di gal na kar”
5. “If you eat fiery garlic pickle before class, you’ll learn a valuable Lehsun”
6. Weight loss frustration… “Pran jaaye par wajan naa jaye”
7. Saw a line of Hyundai Sonatas parked on an empty road. Asked someone there “itna sonata kyu hai bhai”
8. If Johny Depp does Devdas, there’ll be Jack’s Paro
9. A daughter is the perfect child. A son is just a Beta version
10. When in Chennai, many North Indians wonder..”Ye kaahan aa gaye hum, yoo hee south south chalte”
11. She is Libra I am Leo humari Jodi kuch gemini
12. Decided to go to a italiyan restaurant kyunki woh ghar ke PASTA
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On machine produced wealth
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.
On Africa, history, Facebook and WhatsApp
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
When Facebook and WhatsApp came they had the internet and we had the freedom.They said it’s free. We closed our eyes. When we opened it we had Facebook and WhatsApp and they had our freedom.