All those things you read on whatsapp
Suddenly it has become mandatory to have a Whatsapp account, just as it is mandatory to have a Facebook account. Not to forget Twitter. It is just bad luck for those who created stuff like Orkut or Viber or a host of other applications all of which apparently have fallen by the wayside. I have no qualms about that, for survival of the fittest app and all that... but, it is what keeps appearing on my Whatsapp account that takes my goat. Let me explain. The other day, I got a forward from a well-meaning friend in the form a video. The theme was (supposedly) what goes around comes around - or some such drift. The hero in the video purchases some kind of hand-made handicraft from a street urchin at a road intersection, after the same was rejected by others travelling in cars and general passerby. The urchin is grateful to the vendor, and the hero is as smug as a cat that has just slurped the milk. Presto- what do we see next? The hero gets a call immediately on his cellphone, and a...