2020-08-24 21:40
It’s 2:00 AM and you, my love is asleep.
Alone, curled up with the blanket which could occupy two, shielding yourself from the cold airburst of the air conditioner.
&nb… Read More
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A late blooming millennial's humdrum thoughts and opinions
2020-03-06 12:52
I have stood by the sea shore for 25 odd years. The waves come in and if you are near enough, it plays against your feet, flows through your toes and hums a sweet melody in your heart. But t… Read More
2020-02-29 05:09
There’s a empty bed and a full heart. Shouldn’t the full heart compensate for the empty bed? Shouldn’t the vagaries of emotion which I feel towards her make sure that I don… Read More
2019-06-23 14:19
Quotes. These awkward two liners which have a profound ability to change Read More
2018-11-15 18:15
Hope!
That four letter word which has allowed a select few to rise from the mundane life of every man and into the greatness which is inherent in every human.
But why hope? Why should I feel… Read More
2018-06-18 18:32
I felt nothing. It was a time when you were supposed to have a raging fire burn inside your heart. But I felt numb. There was a pit of swirling nothingness within that belied the fire burnin… Read More
2018-06-15 18:55
Friends are made. Through the idiosyncrasies of emotions which plaque our lives, hearts, and minds there is space for a relationship which is neither connected by blood (family) or a faintin… Read More
2018-06-15 18:02
Meet, greet, dine, talk and if the talk was pleasant enough, hold hands or if emotions betray you, kiss. That’s the template perfected by billions of couples the last million years for… Read More
2018-05-24 18:15
He spoke of art and she smiled like Mona Lisa. She spoke of politics and he roared like Winston Churchill. They spoke of philosophy and thought like Sigmond Freud. Their hands clos… Read More
2018-04-14 04:31
It was then, I knew it was over. All the love and lovers who had lived and will live in the past, present and future of mankind couldn’t help us. Love as we had known and painstakingly… Read More
2018-03-06 14:25
Falling in love was supposed to be easy. You were supposed to know when you see the person of your dreams. It was supposed to be a javelin that went straight through your heart as she passed… Read More
2018-01-03 03:30
Never understood the need for a cloth.
Never understood why it should cover my eyes.
As I looked beyond the cloth through my spirit’s eye, I saw my life as it had been lived.
The sweet… Read More
2018-01-02 11:14
It was a fine day in Cyprus, a few thousand years ago and a young man named Zeno has just found out that his entire trade shipment has been lost at sea. This act of God would have made most… Read More
2018-01-02 05:55
Let’s say a baby is born in your household… Good or Bad ? ….Imagine the same baby dying after 5 years in a freak accident….Good or Bad ?…. Terming an e… Read More
2017-10-07 13:00
Narrative has changed since the time the GDP and current account data-points were released for the June quarter. Shocked by the sharp slowdown in growth numbers coupled with surging defici… Read More
2017-10-03 07:57
Cloud computing has over the last decade become the standard on how solutions can be delivered both in B2B and B2C formats. As cloud computing became more ubiquitous more and more technologi… Read More
2017-10-02 14:25
Some videos/ inspirational talks change your life. I over this last year as part of my new year’s resolution have attempted to watch at least one TED talk a day and I have shared some… Read More
2017-10-01 20:17
Machines, AI and Singularity.
We keep hearing these words and how they will take over our jobs and turn us into unemployed paupers. Sometimes the headlines are such that it makes me wants to… Read More
2017-09-19 18:39
What is Cloud computing?
Wikipedia defines Cloud Computing as a kind of Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to other computers and other devices on de… Read More
2017-09-11 16:33
I am a human with thoughts within and actions without. I understand how the world works and how to earn my keep. I know how to fall in love and how to control my anger. I know that someday I… Read More
2017-09-10 08:52
The previous chapter Man in Space, Event 3: A Vorian Definition of Man can be accessed here.
I sighed, as I switched of my log and got ready to meet Dexle. But the entry door indicated… Read More
2017-09-09 06:25
As my cut throat slid slowly across his throat not cutting it but playing with the skin with just enough pressure to push his chin inside, I thought back at the many routes my life took so t… Read More
2017-09-01 13:53
Just the other day, whilst walking along a fairly busy street as the cars whizzed past me as if owning the ground on which tar had been poured on, I noticed a bunch of flowers lying str… Read More
2017-09-01 10:53
Is digital transformation still a rhetoric or is the hype matched by facts on the ground?
I got round to asking this question after reading the 2016 IT buyer survey. One of the interest… Read More
2017-08-30 11:15
The previous chapter Man in Space, Event 2: A robot intervenes can be accessed here.
Dexle calmly replied, “ We wish to change the definition of what it means to be human” a… Read More
2017-08-18 20:52
All my Earthly Thoughts
The previous chapter Man in Space, Event 1: Journey to Voros can be accessed here
“Is the male human?” Manning asked and I smiled.
Although I had… Read More
2017-08-18 15:32
The previous chapter Man in Space, Event 1: Journey to Voros can be accessed here
“Is the male human?” Manning asked and I smiled.
Although I had seen the pictures of Voria… Read More
2017-08-17 23:40
The milky way swirled across the sky like a whip swatting an unknown beast across the cosmos.As I looked into the different star clusters and the names the ancients gave them, I was amazed a… Read More
2017-08-17 15:46
The young man tugged at my heart.
It was not his appearance that bothered me but rather the pale aura surrounding him. That pale aura which defines a human in confusion. That aura whi… Read More
2017-08-15 00:31
An old man stood his shoulders slightly stooped with old age and a plastic bag in his hand. The wrinkles in his eyes spoke of ages of accumulated wisdom whilst the tiny smile playing between… Read More
2017-08-14 23:51
As an Indian, most of us have thought that World War 1 and 2 were something that was fought in the distant shores of east Asia and Europe whilst we remained unscathed. But nothing could be f… Read More
2017-08-14 23:09
Living near the beautiful stretches of the Marina beach for almost my entire life, there have been many stories which I have heard as folklore and history in locations in and around the Mari… Read More
2017-08-14 22:32
Democracy has long been considered a western construct. Created by the Greeks and foisted upon the rest of the world through vagaries of Time and circumstance. This form of government which… Read More
2017-08-13 19:56
Tamilakam the ancient Tamil country was known for its various inventions and discoveries and one of it is the Damascus Steel.
Damascus Steel or Wootz steel was first mentioned in the annals… Read More
2017-08-13 18:32
Now that you have gathered all the requirements now you are in the final task of getting the requirements approved by the right stakeholders. Normally there are three kinds of approvals whic… Read More
2017-08-13 18:02
One of the biggest problems/concerns seen in any project is scope creep. So it is important during the requirement gathering stage itself that we limit the scope creep. This can be done by p… Read More
2017-08-13 17:37
Most project requirements are complex and require pages upon pages of documentation to make sense of the same. But this will not be useful during times of presentation or project discus… Read More
2017-08-13 16:53
Whilst creating business requirements it is important to understand business rules. Business rules are those which crop up as constraints in the requirement gathering phase.
Business rules a… Read More
2017-08-13 16:19
A good list of requirements will make the difference between the success and failure of a project. A good requirements list will allow you to create and design the solution which will… Read More
2017-08-13 14:53
Now that you are into a project it is important to fill up the RACI Matrix. So what exactly is the RACI Matrix?
So what exactly is the RACI Matrix?
It is a tool which is used for identifying… Read More
2017-08-12 08:14
As a business analyst, you are constantly asked to look into projects and whip up a business case or in some cases, you will be writing a business case to push for the project which is very… Read More
2017-08-10 22:03
As a business analyst, one of your important tasks is to build a business case.
Consider this scenario, as a hot-shot business analyst you have been given a task of gathering requirements fo… Read More
2017-07-29 22:15
Agile methodology has become go-to methodology and has been adopted with great gusto by the IT teams across the world because it is flexible and adaptive and allows the IT teams to keep pace… Read More
2017-07-29 21:45
Although waterfall model was very useful for software development in the mid part of the 20th century as time went on the fast changing nature of the world meant solutions are obsolete befor… Read More
2017-07-29 21:27
The Waterfall methodology is one of the oldest methodologies in Software development lifecycle. It has been used to create many multi-million even sometimes billion dollar projects.
In a nut… Read More
2017-07-29 21:11
SDLC…that standard acronym which has been a bane/boon for many a IT professional. But did you know that SDLC has more than one meaning?
THere are two kinds of SDLC. They are as follow… Read More
2017-07-08 11:09
Although over a few articles we have been discussing what a business analyst does and how they add value it is important to note that note all business analysts do all the roles. W… Read More
2017-07-07 03:59
The term Business Analyst is an all-encompassing one. It can be used to refer to anyone who identifies and solves problems in business. This can refer to anyone from the CEO to the front off… Read More
2017-07-07 02:41
We have all heard of a Business Analyst. In our corporate life, we have seen them be a part of business meetings taking copious notes and asking pointed questions. But what is it that they d… Read More
2017-06-02 19:53
For most students in Tamil Nadu, their introduction to Tamil prose began with Aathichoodi, a collection of single line quotations explaining basic morals on how to live a good life. Whi… Read More
2017-06-01 18:36
Today the Business Analyst market is exploding with the job market growing at the rate of 19% over the next 10 years. Although the term Business Analyst seems like a specific skill, a c… Read More
2017-06-01 16:25
When we talk about Tamil history we are confined to the Cheran, Cholan and Pandyan dynasties and if we discuss the later part of the Tamil history then Pallava dynasty comes into t… Read More
2017-05-23 23:40
Crack!
I heard the thunder as it roared over my head seconds after lightning streaked across the sky. The road was dark but the creations of man were all around me.
It was just a few seconds… Read More
2017-05-23 13:37
What is blockchain?
Blockchain is defined by Google as
“a digital ledger in which transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly&rdquo&hell…Read More
2017-05-20 11:50
There has been a recent spate of articles in the mainstream media about how 65% of the jobs in Las Vegas will be lost or that 1.2 million Scottish jobs will be at high risk due to autom… Read More
2017-03-20 22:35
Chennai a sprawling metropolis with a population of over seven million and located towards the southern tip of India facing the Bay of Bengal is about to face a severe drought the likes… Read More
2017-03-02 22:15
Ask any Tamilian as to who ruled the ancient Tamil Lands and the answer would probably be Chola, Chera and Pandya ( the three crowned kings of Tamil Nadu) and in the later stages the Pallava… Read More
2017-02-24 17:40
Studies after studies have shown that millennials when surveyed “What makes a good life?” the answer has almost always been “Money”. Yes, money does help us lead… Read More
2017-02-24 15:30
A long time back when the world was younger and I was in Business school, I did the Marshmellow challenge. The marshmallow challenge is one wherein you are given a bunch of sticks, thread, c… Read More
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