Thought Machine

"Is your Facebook identity synonyms with your own?" Like or Dislike.. u still got it! Our actions largely relate ourselves with the social environment we are part of. Facebook status and photo update, no exceptions; somehow are reflection of the thought circle a society possess and may not truly reflect individual's own idea of things. Irony is that social media somehow have the ways to control how one feels about other person. That is why personal profiling on web has become so important these days. Personal profiling involves manipulation of your characteristics to a certain degree and we can safely assume that its target is to control the way audience perceives you. A largely expressive society of facebook enthusiasts might contains bunch of super freak people who would love to post the pictures of first date before it actually happened (unfortunately we can't foresee our future) and the excitement culminates only with the comments and like you get....

This book preceding THE NAMESAKE by the author Jhumpa Lahiri and is a collection of short stories beautifully depicting the friction b/w two cultures trying to go parallel with each other. the diffrnt short stories are -- Unaccustomed Earth // Hell-Heaven // A Choice of Accommodations // Only Goodness // Nobody's Business // Hema and Kaushik The book has made to " 10 best books in 2008"... in US of A.... Though I feel... we at India are far unaccustomed to receive her messages fully.... I liked one para which conveys .. " For Human race to progress, they must face the Unaccustomed earth !! " citing the example of farming the same crop on same field again n again can only reduce yield :) ... The world is still beautiful..Isn't it?

Its an story of 24 year old girl Veronika who decides to commit suicide due to some inexplicable reasons. She was having a happy life, boyfriends and people caring for her.Still she decides to end her life by taking excess dose of sleeping pills. As she chose to court death to life and waited for it to come, she read an article in a magazine which starts with " where is slovenia" which in turn makes her think about her own existense. But her suicide attemp fails and she woke up finding herself only to be alive in a metal hospital, Villete . She is told to have left with a week of life because of the damage she has done with her heart. Her presence there affects other patients in the hospital and veronika also starts taking interest in life as she came closer to each of them.She started living the rest of the days to the fullest and felt happy among mad peoples world .. She wondered why the insanely world call them mad? She falls in love with a eduard who equally reciprocat...