The Social Thinker

  With a population of over 1.3 billion, there is a huge potential of India for excelling in many of the sports played in the world. But the reality shows us a different picture where Cricket is way ahead in popularity and success in India , whereas other sports crave for even a fraction of its popularity. So, why Cricket has overshadowed other sports in India ?   Achievement of different sports team of India before 1980s Once believed to be the “ National Sports of India ”, Hockey was the most followed sport of India at one time. Men’s hockey has consistently made India proud by winning various competitions in the world. In Olympics , it has won 6 back to back gold medals from its inception and in total 10 medals in consecutive years. Along with that, we also hold the World Championship title in the year 1975 along with 3 total medals in the competition. India has produced finest players including Dhyan Chand Singh and several others who have excelled in ...

In the previous article , we have talked about Cloud Computing and why it is so popular nowadays. We have also talked about how Amazon Web Services is different from Cloud Foundry . Now let’s see how PCF is related to Cloud Foundry and why it is so popular.   What is PCF? Pivotal Cloud Foundry abbreviated as PCF is a commercial cloud platform, a product built by Pivotal on top of the open source Cloud Foundry . Hence, it is Platform as a Service ( PaaS ) and can be deployed on any of the IaaS ( Infrastructure as a Service ) platforms including AWS , GCP , OpenStack , VMware vSphere and others.   Why go for PCF? The advantage of using a PaaS platform is the ability for the development teams to deploy quickly the new features of the application they are working on with ease. With faster deployment, the productivity of the deployment teams will increase as now, development process will be more focused on the implementation of the features or bugs o be deli...

The year 2020 has been a year of disaster with so many bad news pouring in. The unfortunate death of the  Bollywood  hero  Sushant Singh Rajput  is definitely one of the worst among them. The sad demise of such an amazing talent and a young life has left everyone shattered and since then people have been taking a dig on  Nepotism  in  Bollywood . But is it just the film industry that is to be blamed?   The unfortunate death of Sushant Singh Rajput Sushant Singh Rajput  was not just another actor in Bollywood but also considered one of the finest alongsides  Ayushmann Khurrana  and  Rajkummar Rao , who without any Godfather started in  Bollywood  and have got a name with their great acting skills. He was found hanging himself in his apartment and is believed to have done suicide because of depression. Not only that  Sushant Singh Rajput  was a fine actor, but he was among the very few  Bollywood  ac...

With high speed internet facilities cheaply available, the digital world is now accessible to almost every person. Not only large and medium scaled industries, but even the small businesses have now turned up for their own websites or e-commerce sites for selling their products to the customers directly. So demand for an agile and scalable storage is high and here comes “clouds” to the rescue.   What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing is the delivery of services such as storage, databases, servers, software or analytics to the customers over the internet. Imagine you want to run a website for your small website , now once the site is ready you need to host it in some server which will store the data of your site and is available for public to use. But in order to do so, you will need a server room that in turn will need space and proper maintenance which will in turn increase your cost to run your site. Now if someone tells you that he has that facility that you want ...

Human is a social animal and for a man or a woman, relationship is of equal importance as that of his/her basic needs. In this era of modern world, there is hardly a joint family that we see living together around us. It’s not been long that families used to live together adjusting with each other. But things have changed and now even the children are getting separated from their parents before and after marriage. So what are we missing by separating ourselves?   The traditional Indian family The idea of a family in India is very different from the western world. While in Europe and USA , it is a general practice where the kids leave the houses of their parents once they start to earn a living for themselves, children stay with their parents for lifetime. Not only that our family used to comprise of children and their parents , but there used to be a joint family residing in the same house wherein uncles and aunties along with the grandparents used to co-live. Except for ...

It’s not been too long before that the On-demand video streaming platforms have been introduced, and various applications like Netflix , Amazon Prime Video , Hotstar and various other national and regional have already become the favorite destination of entertainment among the young generation. Recently with the lockdown in effect, the use of these applications has only increased. But has it become a replacement for the cable business? Is there any chance that people will stop watching television and watch the shows of these applications instead?   How the On-demand streaming services began in India? The first of its kind OTT was introduced in the year 2008 in India when Reliance launched BIGFlix . It is an on-demand movie service which allows users to watch and download their favorite movies. An OTT , over-the-top service uses the internet to provide content to its viewers instead of the traditional cable/broadcast provider. One of the major players of current market, ...