The Retarded Satirist

Online shopping is the one thing that your old timer tailor-master wants dead. It eats up his business faster than the cookie monster chomping on chocolate cookies. But we love it. What's better than window shopping minus the walking and the sweating with the added bonus of having munchies at arm’s length at all times? However, we bring to you 5 reasons why you should ditch the phone and sweat it out in the sun. (WYSIWIG ) WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET is the top reason. check out the consumer forums and the horrible reviews most online retail stores get and suddenly trying before you buy becomes your number 1 reason. There's a reason why your mom and dad are sceptical about online shopping. From taking pictures at attractive angles to outrightly showing a different picture and sending you a different product, online retailers will try every trick in the book to separate you from your money. (Cheaper Deals)  Online retailers will try to lure you with eye catching taglines...

Take a look around, there's high currency for organization and we tell ourselves that it is with good reason. Labourers organize themselves into unions to bargain for better working conditions. Religions are organized to propagate faster and wider. Criminals form syndicates to replicate, though mostly unknowingly, the Japanese Keiretsu. The underlying theme being the binding together of assumingly lesser mortals and achieve feats which they supposedly can't as individuals. Look into those organizations a little deeper and Marxists will gleefully point out the rampant alienation of the individual units of the organization. What organizations actually achieve is a surrender of individual decision making to a higher purpose. But mind you, those decisions will have to be and will be made just not by the worker on the field but by someone so high up the chain that they haven't been on the field for years. History shows us that even the greatest of conquerors were humbled by t...

The strides in modern medicine have truly separated us from animals. We can provide limbs to our limbless, remove cancers from our diseased and everything in between. Yet, we hold ourselves back in some areas owing to our ethno-religious mores and moralities which on broad basis are beneficial but seem frighteningly disastrous on certain individual events. It is with this realization, we set out to codify our laws which broadly subscribe to our moralities while taking into account the specific requirements of special circumstances. The debate over medical termination of pregnancies is one such case where the pro-life and pro-choice camps have lobbied hard to sustain their belief systems even to the extent of radical and even perverse arguments giving lawmakers all over the world the arduous task of finding a suitable balance between the two. Balance can crudely be defined as the position that is equally not equitably acceptable to both camps while requiring both camps to forego some o...

In the pre-Bommai case era, when a national party won elections at the Centre, it consequently asked for the resignation of the state governments not aligned with its disposition. The Centre argued that the state governments had lost the mandate of the people. It was a classic case of a tussle between the the Federal and the Unitary structure of the government. Article 1 of the Indian Constitution says that - India i.e. Bharat is a union of states while the presence of a written constitution and the Seventh schedule cement the federal structure of our polity. After the Bommai case, this dissolution of state assemblies on losing power in the Centre came to an end thus adding teeth to the federal provisions of our polity. It was naively assumed that this would end the Centre-State friction and foster harmony in their relation. Sadly, this was not to be. The battleground had just changed its location. The governor, an appointee of the Centre and an integral part of the State Government ...

Germany as we see on the world map these days was not always of this shape. It was a part of the Holy Roman Empire which stretched from modern day Poland to Italy. The empire was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th Century AD( Encyclopedia Britannica Pg26) . Around 300 years after its formation, the empire went through an interregnum which was successfully ended by Rudolf the first of Germany. Due to the interregnum, there were multiple claimants to the throne apart from Rudolf himself, the most notable among them was named Ottokar. Rudolf got his coronation ratified by the then Pope and the Nuremberg Diet thereafter asked Ottokar to relinquish his claims, failing which, Rudolf defeated him in a series of battles and cemented his place as the Holy Roman Emperor. (Ingrao, Charles, The Habsburg Monarchy)  Throughout his reign, Rudolf was known to be indecisive and this was brought into the open by Dante's Divine Comedy where he is being made fun of by his contemporaries for not doing ...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the beast that you need to tame if you have an online business that competes with rival offerings. Staying at the cutting edge of SEO involves constant evolution and a keen eye for statistical data. What worked in 1997 is a millennium old in the Internet timeline and thus is a fossil in 2017. The explosion in statistical data over the years compounded by their diversification and obfuscation means that finding reliable data is also no mean feat. CONTENT IS KING (said Bill Gates) and it has held true all these years. Search Engines earn most of their revenue through advertising but it is the Search Bar that leads people to those advertisements. Due to this peculiar setup, Google and their ilk have constantly updated their search algorithms to project good content over “spammy” content to attract audiences to their websites. This separation of wheat from the chaff only ensures that good content is preferred but doesn’t offer solution...

     The Internet with all its nuances is still considered to be one of the last bastions of equality. While the so called real world is replete with intricate stratifications designed for the rich and by the rich;the internet is fairly egalitarian... or so we thought.      The freemium model of games these days offer a simplified analogy for the transcendence of the economic principles of the real world into this subculture. Why invest hours of gaming into honing your skills when it can do easily be thwarted by purchasing an upgrade costing not more than two large pizzas.      Your purchases can jack up your capabilities to mindnumbing heights, well beyond the punching area of the average gamer. Your opponent could be the Genghis Khan of gaming but when you call in the artillery, it's literally game over for the little guy.      Economists have been employing various tools and methodology to determine ho...