My Perspective

Recently I had a choice to either buy decent yet cheap shoes that might last a couple of years or excellent hence expensive shoes that promises to last many years. I was wondering how to approach this dilemma: quality vs cost trade-off. Would it make sense to save money now but keep replacing it often which would cost the same as buying a expensive ones that last the entire duration. This is when I recalled a quote by Sir Terry Pratchett in his 1993 novel "Men at Arms". The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.     Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he...

This Veganuary, please watch Seaspiracy documentary on Netflix to understand the human induced devastating impact on the oceans through fishing, whaling, oil extraction etc. References:  -  https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts

In the name of tradition, people waste lot of food resources - both in the west and in the subcontinent. It is a Halloween tradition to carve a big pumpkin to make it look scary. But then they throw it away afterwards. It leads to a lot of food waste. Instead of throwing away a good Pumpkin, try to make a pumpkin pie or soup instead?  If you insist on carving then there is a better alternative. Try carving a smaller turnip instead of the bigger pumpkin. Turnip carving also happens to be a old tradition in some places in northern England for that matter. Similarly, in the Indian context, I would discuss ash gourds. There is a tradition of hanging ash gourds or breaking those at the entrance of a house during religious ceremonies to ward off evil spirits. It is just a waste of ash gourds. Instead make a sweet dessert? In this regard small lemons are a better alternative to ash gourds. People typically quench lemons under the wheels of an automobile to ward off bad luck. Being sm...

Today is observed as Earth Day. So let us discuss some of the ways that each of us are indirectly contributing to global carbon emissions. Everyone is online all the time these days. Be it for work or leisure. Be it on a desktop or on a mobile phone. Nothing gets done without the internet. So this raises an important question on whether the Big Tech companies run their services on clean energy? Here are some of the efforts on