The mosaic of my life!

Looking at something small that is much vaunted about its prowess and skills has always been hard to swallow at first go. Remember of Sachin Tendulkar – the little rookie who harnessed his prowess across the globe damaging and bludgeoning the opposing nations with a mere 24x6’ willow in hand. It was difficult for the cricketing bigwigs to accept defeat at amateur hands but who could have resisted long to stand up and applaud the swashbuckling cover drive or the silken loft straight over the bowlers head. Or instead mull about the Apple I-pod, the mesmerizing gadget that has made the world swerve around in gaiety, enjoying their favorite music that touches their soul or gushes through the adrenalin. The journey from the gramophone to the i-pod has been a revelation and it would still be a chimera for the underprivileged barred from technology. The latest roadblock to human imagination before its launch had been the Tata Nano. As ‘Nano’ connotates, it’s something suggestive of a tiny li...

A few decades ago, who might have imagined the importance of scanning devices used in food bazars for billing commodities. Scanners placed at exit doors of shopping malls to prevent pick-pocketing. Scanners used in liabaries to track issue transactions. Scanners-scanners everywhere. The recent of them all is the promulgation of scanner installation at entrances and exits of toll roads to obviate the need for the toll booths. Incredible?? But true. Hitherto, service guards were employed at toll booths to control the flow of vehicles across either lane. The drivers had to stop the vehicle, pay the toll tax, and then get back to the accelerator to hush through the smooth toll roads. Automobiles will now have scanner-sensitive number plates so that the scanning devices will record the licence number of the cars entering and exiting the toll road. After bringing the new technology into practice, the bill management would become quite simpler. It proves beneficial for the traveller as well....