Red Ants

The Night the Lights Went Out I still remember that night — June 25, 1975. Delhi was wrapped in its usual summer heaviness, the kind that sticks to your skin and makes the air feel thick. I had just finished dinner and was sitting by the radio, trying to catch the evening news. My neighbour’s son burst into our courtyard, breathless. “They’ve arrested JP!” he blurted out. “And Vajpayee… Advani… all of them!” At first, I didn’t believe him. Arrested? All of them? But when I tuned in again, there was no mention of protests, no mention of the court verdict against Indira Gandhi — just calm, scripted announcements. It was eerie, like the news itself had been scrubbed clean. I didn’t know it yet, but the government had clamped down on the press. Overnight, the country had changed. The weeks before that had been tense. I’d gone to hear Jayaprakash Narayan speak at Ramlila Maidan — a peaceful sea of students, workers, women in colourful saris, all demanding “Total Revolution.” I’d never ...

When most people think of IT, they imagine blinking servers, endless cables, or the dreaded “blue screen of death.” They see code. Machines. Buzzwords. Silicon, syntax, and systems. But what they often forget— Is the human behind the keyboard. IT Is Not Just Tech—It’s People It’s the developer who spends nights squashing bugs because someone’s small business depends on that app launching tomorrow. It’s the network engineer who skips lunch to fix an outage, So a hospital can stay online, So a teacher can stream a class, So a grandma can FaceTime her grandkids. It’s the help desk analyst who remains calm when someone’s having a meltdown about their frozen laptop—right before a major meeting. IT isn’t faceless. It’s emotional. It’s urgent. It’s human. The Hidden Empathy in the IT World Behind every system that "just works" is someone who made it so. Someone who anticipated your needs before you even opened your laptop. Someone who built an entire invisible bridge—...