Vijay Narayanan on October 22nd, 2011

This morning I helped an elderly couple pick their first ever smartphone. It was a wonderful experience; eye-opening at times. I have known them for a while, and they have been telling me for a couple of months that they wanted to buy an iPhone. I had asked them to wait until Apple launched their [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 21st, 2011

[To Gokul] In his review of The Godfather, Roger Ebert explains why we are enamored of the movie’s characters: We tend to identify with Don Corleone’s family not because we dig gang wars, but because we have been with them from the beginning, watching them wait for battle while sitting at the kitchen table and eating [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 5th, 2011

Christmas Eve 1987 will forever remain etched in my mind. I was four years old. And it was the first time I witnessed my mom, a strong-willed lady, cry. MGR had died. I did not understand back then why anyone would feel so strongly about the passing away of another person they had not even [...]

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