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If you have wondered what this Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all about, here is some food for thought. If you have shopped online, you have probably experienced AI in the form of recommendation engines. It is powering all those recommendations these apps have been putting across to you. AI generates patterns based on your shopping…

In today’s weekend blog, I am again on Bollywood. Many faces come and go in Bollywood. Some are hit and some are flops. Usually, flop actors disappear but some flop actors did not give up and tried their luck in the directional field. Here are some flop actors who became successful directors. 1 Arbaaz Khan–…

COLLAGEN is a term most of us would have studied in school/college Biology, and we promptly forgot afterwards. Let’s refresh and see what it is, how it helps us, and what we can do to ensure we get enough collagen. What is Collagen It is a protein found abundantly in our skin, muscles tendons, teeth,…

Last week in one of my blog, I had written about  making a WILL, and today I am writing about WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DONOT MAKE A WILL . Often, we Indians find umpteen excuses for not making a will that can smoothen the legacy planning in our absence. What are the excuses? I am…

In today’s weekend blog, I am writing about one of the greatest lyricists of Bollywood whose career span was for more than five decades. He worked in the era of famous lyricists like Shailendra,  Sahir Ludhianvi, and Shakeel Badayuni. His real name was Asrar ul Hassan Khan, but we know him by his pen name…

A WILL is as simple as writing down what you want to do with your assets after death. However, for those who want to delve a little deeper, many legal terms are associated with it. Of course, one can always take a lawyer’s help to draft and register the will. What Should a Will Contain?…

Two days back, the Supreme Court of India (SC) ruled that lawmakers can not claim immunity from prosecution in bribery cases. Key points of this judgment: In a significant move, the SC ruled that Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) can not claim immunity from prosecution in cases of bribery…

The more we use technology for convenience in our day-to-day lives, the more cautious we have to be. It seems scamsters find ingenious ways to deceive people about money and goods. They target vulnerable groups like the illiterate, senior citizens, etc. Fraud happens in many ways, some of which can be as harmless as clicking…

HICCUPS or hitchiks are not uncommon to all of us, we would have gotten it at some point in our life. For some people, though, it crops at the most inopportune times. Often, most people drink water to try to resolve the issue. There was one Bollywood movie titled Hitchki, in which Rani Mukherjee plays…

In today’s weekend blog, I am writing about a famous singer who left us a few days back. Friends, I am talking about the famous Ghazal and playback singer PANKAJ UDHAS. He and Jagjit Singh were responsible for bringing ghazals to the general public, earlier ghazals were considered in the classical category and their listeners…