Prasanth's Blog

A normal day that started with my work friend calling me at around 4 am for a work thing. I lazily spent rest of the morning looking at my phone aimlessly.  Also spoke for hours with another work friend, M. Decided to go for tea at like 8ish but finally mustered up the energy to go at 10 am, while logging on my Teams app. A hot sunny and sweaty day indeed!  Gosh, a lot of heat that I could barely take an afternoon nap.  Entire afternoon, my work consisted of one thing - running a giant big a* Excel report. BORING stuff! Captured this beauty in the evening from my hostel room window! Well... tried searching for a simple video editing app. Result - NONE to be found. So here I am, back to good old fashioned blogging where I can write stuff and paste pictures.  Adios!

I never read poetry or tried writing one. Here's the first one I attempted while sitting at a coffee shop. This is about someone to whom I'm emotionally attached, to an unhealthy level and need to come out of it.  Coffee did help me process the thoughts and convert it into a poem.  Here it goes... ... to the one that i have been ruminating on more sunk cost fallacy has done its work,  a bit too much in the sitcom of my life, this episode has hit its core a graceful send off to my emotional feeling is the only way to keep in touch - Prasanth. ...

I like cities - the buzz and the connections. But, something that isn't one of the traits of cities? It is calmness.  Parks, few of them, truly provide it.  Ficus Garden in Road Number 51 of Jubilee Hills is one of them. Trees, birds chirping, cool weather! 🌲🐦 I can hear peacocks too. It is not much crowded, which is great. Hope this park remains a hidden gem, haha.  Timings -  Morning 6 to 9 am & evening 4 to 6 pm.  Few clicks of the park

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Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the popular books till date. Written by George Orwell, famous British author of the mid 20th century, the book is about a dystopian world where the society is governed by a totalitarian regime where the citizens are under constant surveillance 24/7. The book's story centers around how these citizens need to manage their lives with these mass surveillance in place with no privacy and freedom. The citizens are even constantly reminded by posters all around the town saying ' big brother is watching you '.  Sounds bizarre, right?  This concept was soon adapted into one popular show... Well, the character of big brother influenced the creation of a television franchise called Big Brother in the Netherlands by John de Mol Jr in the year 1999 . He created the show where,  There are contestants who compete with each other and nominate other contestants on a weekly basis for elimination. The nominated list of contestants are then voted by the gener...

Life can be tough. We feel out of control. Science suggests meditation can help us get a sense of control.  Meditation is a series of inhales and exhales. To feel calm instantly, we need to take some time off and breathe.  There is an app just for that. This app has no ads, no in-app purchases, just a simple interface for focussed breathing .  Install the app from here . 

Learning about how economies function is sometimes difficult. But knowing what is happening to our country's economy will tell you a lot of things. It requires so much time and effort to find resources to know the financial and economics news .  Indian economy is getting hard to predict as a lot of things are happening under the hood. But, if you're interested to learn what factors are causing the boom and bust in India economy there is a website called Finception , which explains the current happenings about Indian economy and they also cover stock market news which is fun to read sometimes (nerd alert!).  They also have created another website called Finshots , which deals with financial news of India and the articles only take 3 mins to read. There is also an Android app for the same.  If you don't want to miss out any updates, you can subscribe to their newsletters .  They have written some good articles on Medium too.  If you are worried about their cred...