A New Direction

If i need to take this blog in a new direction, all the old jazz will have to go. I've tweaked the template of this blog to hell and back all the while trying to make it look minimal and just like i wanted it.

But I do not want it like that anymore. I think we're set for a complete overhaul of this baby so that we can start writing some good stuff on here. I don't think I want to go for some fancy-shmancy template this time and I don't even want to tweak it a lot. So it's probably going to be some kind of basic template that doesn't have too many bells and whistles.

There are some things I've done to this blog that I absolutely love. There is a link at the end of every post that takes you to a random post, the header text A Story A Day is centered unlike many other blogs, there are several under the hood tweaks that let me bring the focus only and only on what's written on the page, there are sharing options, but i think I'll let them go because, well, if anyone wants to share, they'll most probably cut past the link in their twitter or facebook or google+.

Comments will be back, because now that I am off twitter (I should do a post on that too), there should be some kind of way for people to get a word to me in case someone needs me or someone in the know needs my special set of skills.

I had a bit of a thought of changing the blog's title, but no. Because we can get back to writing stories any day, right? :D

Oh yeah, anything else that you, constant readers want to see here? Please feel free to chime in through the comments.

Are there even any readers left of this blog? I think most of the people are busy in their social media vortex of twitter facebook and what not. It's a time sink and it really takes tiny bits and pieces of life away from us.

You only realize this when you're out of it.

You have to trust me on this.

I don't understand.

Can someone explain this to me? 

I had a vision

I think I'm a very negative person in some areas while in other areas I can be extremely hopeful and positive. That all had put me in the place I am in my life right now and it's a comfortable place.

But as we know from past experiences that comfortable places aka comfort zones are not nice places to be in long term.

So I'm out to find some discomfort. And the most uncomfortable thing to do is to change yourself. As a rule human beings dates change. And in comfort zones nothing changes.

It's all connected, you see.

Yeah so I'll try n change myself and try to be a positive person on an overall basis. So, only positive posts and nice, motivational blogs from now on. This place shall become a dedication to funding all the good points in life, helping others and bringing about a change that can have a positive impact on life of as many people as possible.

From now on, I'll be writing about things that can help you improve in your life or your art or your relationships. How you can upgrade yourself and be a better version of who you were yesterday. After all, life is about self improvement isn't it?

I can take off all the rants and negative posts from this blog but I'll let them stay because this is as much my journey as it will be yours.

I hope you're with me and you'll be reading.

Love and light.

So Dropbox is killing carousel and mailbox

Wow.

This is one of the major problems in the economy of app/service buying and selling.

What you bank upon today could be bought up and shut down tomorrow by anyone with big enough bank.

It's not the first time we're seeing such a thing happen. It happened with Posterous, when twitter bought it. It happened with tweetdeck app that was acquired by twitter. It happened with google reader.

Twitter very idiotically introduced token limits for app developers which effectively nipped many good apps in the bud. They might be there right now but they're not popular.

Remember the twitter app Carbon? Or Gravity? Hell, twitter bought the tweetie app which is the basic for the present twitter app, which, right now, is a frankestenian monster of wishes, whims and desires of the powers that be in twitter headquarters.

Google is famous for killing off apps or services that don't get much use. Which is pretty okay. At least they're doing everything in house and no one else gets to suffer the brunt of their actions.

Except the sparrow mail app, if I remember correctly Google bought it, killed the app development and integrated the team into Inbox development team.

But hey, what can you do? It's the Internet age man, services come and go, live and die, get bought up and shut down, circle of life and all that jazz.

Right?

_Wrong!_

It really shits the bed for the users who took coupons and waited in virtual lines to be let in to a certain app's domain so they can in some cases even pay up and be a user. People have built their workflows around apps and services and then the parent company just decides to shut them down. Cuz hey, fuck the users! They'll forget in a year or two.

No man. Fuck that. I remember Posterous. It was fucking great. It was fucking revolutionary and Twitter brutally took it behind the shed and put a bullet in its brain and slit it's throat for good measure too. Fuck. That. Shit.

I used mailbox for a while. And used carousel too. Both apps are fucking great but they didn't work for me because neither do I click too many pics nor do I get too many emails. But there are many others who do. People have put their money and effort and time and emotions in these apps.

The only silver lining here might be that when carousel finally shuts down, the data will still be safe in Dropbox. But a neat, fun app will bite the dust. But mailbox was a powerhouse of an app. The only alternatives to mailbox that I see right now is the Outlook app. But it still leaves tons of users in shitty waters.

And it makes me wonder what will go next? Will blogger be the next service to bite the bullet? Or tumblr? Or Flickr? Who the fuck knows. Who the fuck ever knows.

We live in interesting times, man. Interesting times.

Comic Con Delhi 2015

I am going to say some shit in this post, you don't have to like or agree with that shit. You don't even have to read this shit, you can go and write on your own blog that I wrote shit on this blog.

Are we cool? I hope we are, cuz I am pissed off and there will be words.

Now, let's see what's comic con. Annual event, held all over India from time to time, invites artists, trade people, celebs from all over, has cos-players, and merchandise, and lot of people, peppy volunteers, etc etc etc.

I went to comic con for the first time in 2014 feb and next time today. That's a lot of gap between two comic cons. But fuck that, I don't really care about that. If they never held another comic con in delhi or anywhere in India, I'd be pretty much fine with it. 

Because, come on, let's be honest with each other here. This event sucks donkey balls. If I start counting off the reasons I'll be writing here all night but I've got better shit to do like sleep, so here are some reasons off the top of my head.

They called Hodor as the main guest of the event. Organizers, are you fucking even being serious here? Are you fucking kidding the kids? Fucking Hodor? Fuck you. 

And fuck you for having the gall to charge kids 800 bucks for a picture with Hodor. The guy is not even a strong celeb, he is a fucking DJ for fuck's sake. He is not even going to DJ at the event. (DJs suck too, but that's another post.) 

And you make kids stand in lines and then pay money to get pics clicked and autographs signed with Hodor of all people. It's like the organizers sat together and thought up the weakest celeb to call to Comic Con, then they thought hey, fuck it, call Hodor! 

Why? Cuz fuck-all indian crowd will lap up anything that vaguely makes them feel closer to western media. I could barely keep myself from puking all over the place when I saw the big hoarding of Hodor. Oh merciful god, why?

And they had Cyrus Barocha speaking at the event, which had speakers placed at the most stupid imaginable places. I almost got my ear drum blown off when cyrus was shrieking into the microphone. I am not at a metal fucking concert, I don't need that shit in my ear. Jesus fucking christ, it was loud. 

I have a headache now and I am angry cuz everywhere I went in that ground, i could hear cyrus' goatfucking voice in my ears. I almost went to the stage to beat him to death with the microphone but I got distracted. 

Yes, there were things there worse than even cyrus broacha and his shitfuck jokes. Look, at the core of it cosplaying is about showing your own take on something that's not been done to death at least at every comic con. 

Why do I have to look at ten people dressed as the shittiest joker, why are there 6 fucking spider-man costumed fucks hanging around, why the fuck would you not at least shave your fucking legs if you're cosplaying as a fairy and wearing shorts? Why won't you put at least some effort in your cosplay and not dress as mr fucking beans every time? That has to be the laziest cosplay ever. Anything lazier than mr beans and you might as well not get out of the house. What the fuck, you just put on a brown coat and pants and boom, mr beans. Fuck that guy who dresses as mr beans every time. 

But even worse than mr beans are the merchandise sellers at comic con. I shit you not, I saw a pikachu soft toy not bigger than my fist that had a handwritten price of 4000₹ on it. Are you trying to fuckachu me out of my cash? If you wanna fuck me just ask me to bend over politely, no? You have the indecency of putting a fucking handwritten price tag on a piece of shit soft toy and then you've to gall of trying to sell that to people? Fuck you. Just fuck you. There are other stalls that are just there without any idea of how to sell shit to people, there are one or two confused looking teenagers there with plastic smiles on their faces. They don't want to be there but maybe the pocket money is good, so why the fuck not. 

Fuck this. Writing this has pissed me off so much I don't want to even touch on the fact that comic con is a human disaster waiting to happen they've just been fucking lucky so far. God, and why can't I get a 3G connection in that fucking place. At least provide wifi tokens or something. Fucking wankers. 

/end of rant. 

things fall apart

Year end is always a difficult time for me techwise. I can go the whole year without any kind of technology related accidents and then suddenly it's all down on my head like a bundle of bricks. Some of my most spectacular technology fails have been in the months of November and December. So, even though it's difficult, i try to stay away from most tech things in these two months, or just be extra careful when handling anything techy. 

Is this superstition? 

Maybe it is, maybe I am just looking at the statistical probability of the cold months making me clumsy or generally distracted with the technology around me. 

My laptop has randomly shut down on me twice for some reason and I had to take out the battery, start it with the charger in and then switch it off and insert the battery back in to get it working again. There is a small whining noise coming from somewhere in the laptop and I don't think that is a good thing. 

The phone is a regular pain, like an itch you keep scratching because it's got such shitfuck low memory. Why the fuck did apple make phones with 8gb memory? It's a good phone on all other accounts, just the low memory bugs me like anything. Oh, I dropped the phone one day, and now the screen clicks when i tap it in a particular area. What can a man do?

Also, I shattered the screen of my tablet. It slipped from my hand while I was picking the tablet and my phone from the bed. Now it's not that bad that i'd consider buying a new tablet, and it's not that small that it doesn't irk the eye every time i pick up the fucking thing to play Boom Beach or read a book. That's all the tablet is good for. But I think I am learning to ignore the shattered part of screen. Like some junk that you see every day on your way to office and after a while it becomes a part of the scenery and you are just mentally blind to it. 

How much of such junk do we carry around in life, in relationships, in our daily dealings with others? This is something to think about. 

What else, I got my tiny lil snasa music player but I've not used that thing in quite some time. 

Ah, I just felt like writing all this here while I procrastinate writing my nanowrimo project. I better get a day or two of writing in if I have to hit that word count. 

Laters.

k&m

A Wish

I have not written anything here or anywhere else for that matter because I'm busy with work and trying my level best to drum up a daily word count to make it to 50,000 words by end of November. But I wish to write a long and lazy piece of writing that goes here there and everywhere. I'm going to do it in December.

Life has dug its claws in me and it keeps trying to drag me down. But I'm stubborn in my own way. So I do what I have to do. Right? Wrong? What the fuck does it matter?

My neighbour beats his wife and son every alternate days. Like clockwork. If I don't hear them crying, my day seems incomplete.

And what the fuck is up with cats being assholes?

By the way, how have you been doing? Let me get done with the nanowrimo and we'll sit and chat properly.

Cool? Cool.

It's November! Which means NANOWRIMO!!

I think I have said enough about NaNoWriMo, the yearly tradition of writing a novel in November.

The math is simple, 50000 words, 30 days, 1667 words a day. Keep at it and you have something slightly resembling a zero draft in your hands by the end of the month. It is no way a complete novel. It is just a basic draft of how things are going to happen. Hell, it's not even the first draft, it's a zero draft, the first draft comes later. Most published novels go through 10-20 drafts before even being ready for submission to agents or publication houses. So, don't get your hopes of being a writer anywhere near the UP mark.

NaNoWriMo is essentially practice, for telling yourself that you can write daily and you can achieve a target set of words. That's about it.

Well, you say, yeah yeah pallav, shut the fuck up and tell us how to tackle this beast, cuz we've heard that you've done this shit twice or thrice already, not that we care, cuz you never made a first draft of those zero drafts, but give it to us.

So, I'll say, well, since you asked for it, and because I have to work on my Nano project for this year, i am not going to type out a whole set of posts, because I already did those some years ago.

You're gonna have to click on links, my friend.

Link ONE -- Some Thoughts About NaNoWrimo

Link TWO -- NaNoWriMo Pre-Plan

Link THREE -- Actual fucking writing of the "Novel"

Check these three links, put your ass in a chair and start writing, cuz 1667 words a day it is.

Good luck and godspeed!

Regenerating/Powering Up

There is only one thing you can be absolutely sure about in life. That's life. It never fucking stops moving. For anyone. No one is above or beyond it. Life goes on. Whether you want to hang on for the ride or not, it'll not give a fuck and just keep going on.

That said, there are always minor shocks, trials and tribulations, all sorts of shit that might or might not have anything to do with you, but it's in your path, so either you change your path or you step through it. I think everyone should go through some shit every now and then, it allows you to take an inward look and see what the fuck you've been doing wrong and right.

While you're wading (?) through that pool of shit, the stink overpowering and the shit sucking the shoes off your feet, you'll think to yourself, what the fuck am i doing with my life? Is this what the fuck I want to do? Is this my full potential? Am I living or just fucking existing? When will this pool of shit end? Did I just leave my shoe two steps behind me? Am I going to get my hands dirty picking up that one shoe or am I going to keep walking with one shoe and one foot drenched to the pores in shit? So many questions and often these questions have no answers.

this babe is also contemplating the sea of shit that she has to step through

All you can do is walk. Walk hard and fast and focus on the light, whatever little it might be at the horizon and maybe at the end of the sea of shit that you're walking through. What I am trying to say is that I've walked through my sea of metaphorical shit, maybe I am still going through it, but I am not going to fucking stop. 

November is NaNoWriMo again. I am going to write one more novel again again. There are three in my dropbox folder at the last count. I never got around to editing them. And I don't think I will either. That was just practice. But I've had enough of that. I am sick to my gills of the present market scene in India for fiction and it has finally dawned on me that I, and only I, will have to do something about it. No promises, but, fuck me, if I don't get something done. You know what it's going to be. Yup. 

I have to write more. 

What happened to this blog? What happened to me?

I shit you not, there was time I'd have picked fights with people over the shit I write on this blog. I was so so fucking passionate about every story I wrote because mostly I was young and stupid and damn it, I believed in what I was writing.

I was 110% committed to what I was doing and I'd have fought the fucking world if it meant getting the daily update to the blog. I changed my work schedule so I could write more stories, I wrote in bulk, I wrote faster, I gave zero fucks about so many things that I should have been giving a fuck about. Hindsight is a bitch.

It's all fucked up now. It feels like seeing a beautiful flower growing through blocks of concrete and then a mangy dog shits all over it.

My head has not been in the game for a long time. I got distracted by the hate for this fucking city that circumstances have landed me into, and it's frustrating here because I see no way out. And I can't help but hate it and get flashbacks of what once was all the time. Maybe my head wants to go back and keeps reminding me of every single little thing that made that city my own, but this city is like a thorn stuck in my foot. And I can't take it out because I am too busy walking. So it digs in deeper and deeper till the blood marks my footprints and the wound becomes a sore. But I can't stop walking, so I walk with this fucked up pain in me and there is no escape from it.

So be fucking it.

Still Alive

I was in train when my phone pinged with a Whatsapp notification. 

It was an online friend asking if I was dead. I was not dead, so I asked what lead to the question. Turns out someone had created an account to celebrate my absence from twitter about people missing me and shit. Then another friend pinged me. Another sent me an email. No one called, so that's okay. 

The person in question soon after deleted that account, for whatever reasons. 

Twitter has changed in recent years. Or better, it's a constantly evolving community. 

It was a good community once upon a time, but then people got followers, a lot of followers, others started to get jealous of them, egos clashed and now it's like a murky pool of shit where select few are rolling in the filth and others can't help but get splashed by it. 

There are people hiding behind their anon handles, posting all kinds of shit, heck, people with real names and real pictures are doing it too, it just doesn't matter anymore. You get exposed to their stupidity and venomous agendas no matter how many you mute, block or unfollow. You just can't escape it. 

The only escape is buying a fucking notebook and writing all your tweets there. Because people will always have more free time than you to raise their pitchforks over some inconsequential bullshit. 

In a way, it's become like facebook, but with strangers. 

What's the fucking point? 

Twitter isn't improving our life at the end of the day. It's good for a laugh or two, but after a while you become numb to that shit too. It's just lot of people cribbing and then you start to mirror them too. You might be fine with mondays, but you feel a general discomfort at not tweeting how mondays suck. You can be aloof and distant, but you see, read, listen to all that shit, and who the fuck are these people? Strangers behind fucking handles? You see their lives, their happiness, problems, bullshit they go through, everything, what's the fucking point? That's all I am asking. 

Social networking? A gang to hang out with on weekends? Tech-advice? Contests? 

Why?

My tweet count runs close to 2 lakh and frankly, if I was the kind who'd get embarrassed by this kind of shit, I'd be embarrassed. But that's not the reason for leaving twitter. It used to be funny once upon a time, but then everyone jumped on the bandwagon and now it's fucked up in a very very shitty way. 

Sure, you can say unfollow them all, follow only a select few, you don't have to read what everyone is writing, but you're in the mix, how the fuck can you not participate? I am not going to half-ass something, if I am doing it, I am going all the fucking way. And doing it all the way has become fucking painful. 

So why should I do it anymore?

I asked myself this question time and over again. I left Facebook for same reasons I don't feel like tweeting anymore. Maybe once the crowd loses interest, and twitter gets bought by Google or Apple. Maybe once the trolls die out. Maybe once I feel angry enough about something to tweet again. 

Till then, the account is locked, and I am not going on that website/app anymore. 

If you need me for whatever reason, you'll find a way to get in touch. 

But all that above is just bullshit, I am just too sad to tweet anymore. 

1000 Reasons Why You Should Read Discworld Books

If there is one thing I am sure of in life, it is this.

One day, I will be in power to make people read the books that I want them to read. And that day, I will make everyone read every book from Discworld and nothing else till they remember every line, every lesson and every instance from the books by heart and soul.

That day is not here yet, all I have this blog from where I can shout my thoughts out into the world.

So, hear my thoughts.

Discworld is fucking amazing.

You should read it.

Then you should buy more Discworld books and make all your friends read them too. Give these books to enemies, to strangers, to babies who are learning to read, to old men who are waiting to die, to broken hearted lovers who want to heal, to people who have lost their faith, and to people who have nothing but dreams in their eyes.

Because there is something for everyone in Discworld books. And if you don't have the luck or capacity to understand the lessons given within, at least you will leave the books with a smile on your face. And on some days, even a smile is enough to deal with the world.

But Pallav, you ask, there are more than 40 Discworld books, where do I begin? How will I know the overall story? What about the characters? What about the pain, horror, fun, love and madness of Discworld?

To which I'd reply, surprise yourself!

Pick any single Discworld book. Seriously, any one of them.

Give it a read. Then pick another one and give it a read.

By the third book, you'll be in love with everything Discworld.

This the beauty of Discworld, there is an order, but it is not a concrete order. This is probably the only book series where you can start reading from anywhere.

If you begin somewhere in the middle of the timeline of Discworld, relax, you're in the hands of a master storyteller, who won't let you leave confused and bewildered.

There will be times when you will laugh, and times you will cry while reading the books, and times when you'll be forced to put the book down and think about the genius of Terry Pratchett.

The author has left us, but his work is here for us and the future generations and it'd be a grave sin if we don't give Discworld a read and make it a part of life of every person who can read.

There is whole essence of cosmos in Discworld, there is wry commentary on the state of things, there is scathing wit, the humor is off the charts, the characters are so well drawn that they feel almost real.

I could go on and on about Discworld and maybe I will, too. But right now, seriously, head over to your favorite online bookstore, and gift yourself a Discworld book.

I mean, how bad can it be?

Virtual pets and why you should check them out

First there was the tamagochi, then there were all kinds of virtual pet sites popping up online.

My first experience with one such site was back in 2003-04, i believe.

There was this site called Neopets that offered you all kinds of virtual pets and then you could play games to collect points, and then you could use those points to buy stuff like food and accessories for your pet. The whole idea was to upgrade it to a level where you could complete vs other players in the pets arena. The really interesting part was how every pet had a story and there was an underlying lore of the pets that just tickled your fancy and you wanted to know more. Each pet came with its own sets of powers, like the pokemon, but this was on a much larger level.

I remember playing on that website for long long hours, cuz even though the concept seems cartoonish, some of the games on there were hard as hell and really required concentration and rapid twitch trigger fingers to really get through the levels.

As time passed, life got busy and I forgot about neopets, and last i remembered that site was when i tried to log in and realized that the email i had signed up with had expired. Yup, it's that long ago.

But why am i talking about all this?

I am talking about all this because one my buddies online runs a forum about virtual pets, virtual pet games, and SIM games. Basically, instead of hunting for your next fix of a virtual pet or a sim game,  you go to the forum, check out the directory that has 67 virtual pet sites listed there or if you're in mood to create some SIMs and play a cruel god to their lives, there are 72 SIM games featured on the website. Looking for role playing games? They've got those too.

Moreover, there are users with their own virtual pets blog on the website and it's great to read how involved some people are with their hobby of raising their own virtual pet.

The forum is pretty active too as there are daily posts and people are discussing the games in ample detail. Heck, i am going to make an account and hang out there for a bit myself, maybe I can find some way to re-scratch that old neopets itch again.

Check out www.virtualpetlist.com here

Next post, I'm going to talk some about my book.

40 More Ideas for everything (businesses, startups, whatever)

40 More Ideas 

*DISCLAIMER - You read the content ahead at your own risk. I won't be held responsible if you decide to try any of this or if you get any kind of mental/physical/financial trauma from trying any of these. Some ideas are funny, some i've pulled out of my ass and some might be NSFW. So, USE COMMON SENSE.

Here we go!

I have chosen Roboto Light as the font of choice for this post. I know the formatting would be fucked up when I paste this from the word document into blogger template, but that's a problem for later. I posted the 60 ideas earlier somewhere in October and then Nanowrimo came around and then I got lazy. 

Yay me! 

You won't believe the kind of shit I have to deal with daily just to continue to be me, but that's almost my problem. You're here because you probably want to read the 40 more start-up, business, hobby, whatever ideas. 

Right? I think you are. 

So let's go forth and see what I can crack up from my brain hole.

61) A service that will send the ashes of your loved ones up into space and show you how high they've reached with a go-pro camera attached balloons. It can be really interesting for people who believe god lives in the sky. And there are always gullible customers in the market.

62) Roof with a piece of it removed and replaced with glass that turns to a mirror at night depending on the user's preference. Think of the uses. You can get people to pay for the installation of such mirror.

63) USB drives filled with religious sermons and bhajans. Better yet, make figures of gods in form of speakers to sell to old people and people who don't want to sing bhajans. Big market for this. Portable god speakers.

64) Drones on rent for marriages, birthday parties, graduation parties or any such gathering of idiots. They can click pics with the drones or use drones to air drop candies and gifts on their customers.

65) Treasure hunts. But they're nationwide and have a business focus. Give people working in corporate sector a way to go to different cities and interact with clients. Modules of such can be gamified and sold to business schools so that students can learn how to do business in the real world.

66) Permanent ink that is not permanent. It stays permanent for 24 hours or so and then vanishes on its own.

67) Jackets and gloves that have a chemical compound in them that heats up on contact with body. You wear a jacket and it starts getting warm. Similarly, clothes that keep you cool in summer. Some kind of feasible chemical reaction in seams.

68) Temporary steroids with zero side effects. Everyone wants to look pumped every once in a while. Maybe for a competition or for a fight or for whatever reasons. The roids make anyone look like a beefcake and then get expelled from body the next day.

69) Custom Sex Dolls in shape of your favorite celeb. Or your dead spouse. Risky, but doable. Had to do this for 69.

70) Pre-filled ntoe books for people who want to show off that they write a lot.

71) Diaries for sale. Pre-written on spec so that people can leave something interesting for their grandkids. Maybe as a prank or as a gift.

72) Energy drinks tailor made for athletes and high energy profiles. Corporates, programmers, police personnel, army, music performers. Basically any profession that has highly specific demands from the person involved. Not meant for regular chumps who can drink red bull and monster.

73) A pen that randomly changes color as you keep using it. For a dash of color in your life.

74) An easy way to recycle old electronics. Maybe someone to pick gadgets from your house, wipe the data, and pay you for recycling them.

75) An app that launches by itself at a random time during the day and clicks a pic of whatever is in front of the camera. Then posts it on twitter. No way to disable it. Snap-Roulette

76) Applications that can un-install themselves once their trial use period is over.

77) Employment for the beggars. Use them for organ harvesting or drug trials. Inhumane, maybe, but it is an idea.

78) Put contraceptive in the water supply of low income areas of New Delhi to stop over-population. Also applicable to every other city.

79) Free Television and cable for families with more than 3 kids, so they watch tv all the time and do not make more children.

80) Anger meter. A head band, ring or watchthat monitors the BP and heart rate of a person to show their anger level so that others can keep their distance from him/her.

81) Moving teleconfrencing vans: For old people who are not tech-savvy enough to talk to their children who are living in other countries. They place a call and the technicians in the van create a high speed video conference for two parties.

82) A radio or a TV station that plays nothing but adverts. Pure adverts. Users who listen to adverts and call-in to answer number based questions stand to win prizes through a draw. Fuck entertainment, tv programming and radio jockeys, let's get straight to business.

83) An ad-free version of newspaper, which costs more than the usual newspaper, but has higher quality of stories, better paper and impartial news coverage. Kind of like ET, but better.

84) Everyone should live with just three sets of high quality, fashionable set of clothes.

85) Shoes that prevent your feet from stinking.

86) A dog collar that injects a temporary paralyzing drug into the dog's system disables it if it goes beyond a certain area, eg: home wifi range. At the same time, the collar alerts the owner that dog is running away or is being stolen. Slightly inhumane, but it can save lost dogs, cats etc. It'd be funny as fuck, too.

87) Themed weddings for Indians, but super strange and weird themes such as evil villain, underground base, destroy the world type parties with story and cast. It's a once in a lifetime event for many, and it should be different and super memorable.

88) Websites that pay you for reading and using them. Eg: a facebook clone that gives you a share of advertising revenue the longer you stay online and interact with the adverts. The website will monitor your front camera to ensure you're looking at adverts and not leaving your phone with the website open. The website can also give reward based tasks such as visiting a showroom to get an instant 20% discount in the next two hours or something.

89) A word like writing application/chrome plugin that works only when you're not connected to the Internet. If you're connected to the net, it will prompt you to collect research material and disconnect from the Internet. This will help people like writers in being more productive just like I am being productive now because the internet is not working.

90) Disposable phones, just like disposable cameras. Sub-500, single charge, disposable number, just use and go, good for a certain number of calls. All calls go through a server to prevent misuse by terrorists or unlawful elements. 

91) TV programs like soaps, not reality shows, where users can vote on which character should die or progress to the next episode. The story progresses based on the votes of the users. It's much like big boss, but it can go for a longer duration.

92) Extremely bitter cigarettes. So that people are less inclined to smoke them. And the smoke should smell like farts so that people do not smoke them in public. Point is to increase the unpleasantness than the kick of nicotine. Plus, farty cigs would be funny.

93) Delhi specific. The roads should drive a small spike into the foot of the person who spits on the road. Cleanliness through punishment. Better, get kids who play online games and give them control of CCTV cameras and small darts that they can shoot at people who spit on roads. Make it a game. Just a funky idea.

94) Restaurant where you get to kill the meat you want to eat. Or hunt some chickens, maybe. Animal cruelty? Not really, you're here to eat the animal, might as well kill it with your own bare hands. It's a good stress buster to kill something too.

95) A chrome/firefox plugin that replaces all listicles with longform articles that make sense and teach you something.

96) Babies on rent: For people who want to have a baby but don't know how difficult it is to take care of one. Long shot, but there can be something in this idea.

97) Dogs on rent: For people who want to keep a dog as pet, but don't know how difficult it is to take care of one. Long shot, but there can be something in this idea.

98) A person on rent who comes to your home/office while you're working and smacks your head whenever you get distracted and open twitter/fb/reddit. A guy actually did this and paid a girl to slap him. But, it can be a good side business if you enjoy slapping people.

99) A place where you can get license for drunk driving. Some people can drive okay after drinking, others cannot. So, police should get some people drunk and then take a driving test so that they have DDL (Drunk Driving License).

100) People who write listicles on the internet should be given real jobs. Entire buzzfeed and its clones should be nuked and their website source codes deleted from servers. These people should be put in a jail and make to break rocks.

ALRIGHT! This is it. I made it to 100! Check the last post here. 

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