Manas Garg Speaks

If you are/were fond of eating at the gate of NIT Trichy, at Rajni Anna’s or Raju Anna’s or at Motel Bamboos, you must have eaten the world’s best egg dish - kalakki. After passing out, I missed it so much, that one day I decided to make it on my own. Smart as I am, [...]

Presenting Vimal Kumar - the man who has made searching for trains so much easier for everyone with his brilliant website eRail.in. I contacted him through email and he was kind enough to let me ask him a few questions. Here we go!
Hi Vimal! I know you as the creator of eRail.in. Please tell me [...]

What do you think of when you think about an auto-rickshaw driver? Tampered meters, wicked ways and bad sense of driving? Let me share one trip with you. I had to take an auto from Hyderabad airport to office - a long distance. I asked an auto wallah, and he quoted me the expected 250. [...]

So many of us looking to make a quick buck by starting websites :) See this.

Thanks Murali for sharing the link :)

I feel at home at only two places in the world - one is Ghaziabad, where I have spent my formative years of my life and one in the campus of NIT Trichy - my alma mater. I don’t feel at home in Hyderabad where I stay currently or in Ahmedabad, where my parents stay.
I [...]

A thousand splendid Suns is the second book by Khaled Hosseini, the amazing author of The Kite Runner.
I read this book recently, and can’t help but write about it. The style of writing is again, amazingly descriptive. You can actually see the streets of Kabul, the house where Laila lives, the time when the rocket [...]

Here is a list of things that change as you move out of college (a residential campus) to a full fledged job :
1. Money : Suddenly your financial condition changes. Your previous total monthly expenditure becomes you typical weekend expenditure. You can buy many things you want to without thinking too much. You get a [...]

Just as a great poet is known by the poems he writes, a great institue if known by the students that come out of it.
NIT Trichy is blessed to have some of the most enthusiastic and energetic young minds, who are not scared to do difficult things. RECTians and NITTians are to be found in every [...]

I’m going to share a few of my childhood memories. Some of them pleasant, some of them unpleasant. I’ve hardly shared some of them with anyone else - because I’ve been so embarrassed about them. But here I am making them public.
Here goes the first one - and I think the one which affected me the most.
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 This [...]

The boyzone song Words starts like this:
“Smile, an everlasting smile,
a smile can bring you near to me…”
How do you break ice?
There are so many times in our adult lives when we are in a group where no one knows anyone, and you can feel discomfort standing in the air like mild fog. Few people are masters of [...]