Author: Prateek Srivastava

An evening that held great promise before the law took over and made it nightmarish… “What are you guys up to?” I heard somebody shouting to me, rather to us. My friend and I were swigging beer from bottles, and we turned around to see that the authoritative and booming voice emanated from a cop who was rushing towards us brandishing a baton with a subordinate in his wake. It took me a few seconds to realise that we were breaking the sacred rule, that of drinking alcohol in a public place, something gross in the eyes of society and…

5G is also expected to drive digitalisation of industries and create new jobs in millions as it aims to explore full possibilities of the hyperconnected world For the uninitiated, understanding the 5G technology could be a little tricky. It’s the fifth generation of cellular networks, bringing to the table ultra-low latency and greater bandwidth. Put it simply, it means, faster internet speed than what the current 4G offers on your smart phone; it means you will be able to access a website faster than ever before. The speed could be even 100 times faster and is designed to transmit data…

The needy were in big numbers as poverty caught one’s eye faster than anything else in the city. The trouble for me was now to find the neediest person — I knew what most of these beggars were like; how they abused alms to buy dope and alcohol I had just come out of the gym and was heading towards my car in the parking lot when I saw a hundred rupee note lying on the ground. It looked like to be straight out of the mint as afternoon light shimmered off it. I picked it up in a flash…

Few minutes into the drive, the vagrant abruptly asked for the permission to kiss the scholar which was promptly denied but the brazenness of his proposition made me sort of shudder That he was a beggar who could speak fluent English — in a country where it was a class language to all intents and purposes — was what probably fascinated the scholar who has since authored ‘Find me Leonard Cohen, I’m almost thirty’ and ‘John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Slanderer in Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the Ranee’, Dr Amit Ranjan. While the whole country was busy worrying over India’s World…