
Nitin Stephen Koshy
blogs from Bangalore






Apple's pricing in India has always carried a premium, and that by itself is not particularly interesting. Apple sells premium products, India has an 18% GST along with duties on imported components, and any company is free to charge what its customers are willing to pay.What happened on 9 September...
Posted on 12 September 2026 | 7:47 pm
Read postPrelude:The concept of destructibility is a universal and profound theme that touches both tangible and intangible dimensions of our existence. It reminds us of the inherent impermanence and transience not only of human-crafted artifacts but also of life itself. To delve deep into this concept, we e...
Posted on 28 October 2023 | 11:59 am
Read postEvent chains, a representation of events stored using a Block-Chain/Merkle tree can have many representation strategies. An expansion of the event chains , which is comparable to a linked list; event trees are comparable with tree data structure representation of an event chain with many child nodes...
Posted on 14 June 2021 | 11:37 am
Read postEase of Stateless ServicesDesigning stateless distributed systems are relatively easy. You would have raised an event/message once the service had done processing. You typically are not worried about how the other systems consume your data. In fact in the majority of these scenarios, you don't care...
Posted on 19 October 2020 | 6:08 pm
Read postActors looking into the camera unknowingly - irritating. Actors waiting/pausing for reaction - irritating. Kavya as an actor - guaranteed an award. Entangled in roles - Wife mother et al - all good. Dileep appears to be in a learning mode - average. Dileeps sister - shows potential. Devi's grownup d...
Posted on 21 August 2016 | 10:33 pm
Read post* also at http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Opel-Corsa-1-6-GLS-review-nuqpoortnr * It has been a long time since I last posted on MouthShut - For a background, my first car was a Maruti Esteem (read its review here). Have to report on my present day car, Corsa too; unfair otherwise. Bought my Corsa ar...
Posted on 15 November 2012 | 11:06 am
Read postA larger than life Indian National Flag. Its Independence Day! Location - CMH Road, Bangalore, India.
Posted on 16 August 2011 | 1:28 pm
Read postIts another routine day on NH47 - traffic block for the procession to go ahead. Location - Haripad, Alleppey, Kerala, India.
Posted on 16 August 2011 | 1:25 pm
Read postA rainy day and the wiper on this autorikshaw does not work. At each traffic light, the driver gets off the auto and wipe it using his hand. He has a small soap piece stuck on the upper left side of the windscreen that he uses each time. Location : 100ft Road, Indira Nagar, Bangalore, India...
Posted on 16 August 2011 | 1:20 pm
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