tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030348710353222402024-03-19T17:54:20.610+05:30Life's a comic strip!Exploring the funny side (as well as the not-so-funny side!) of life through comics.Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.comBlogger572125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-8396119489863911652015-04-25T18:23:00.002+05:302015-04-25T18:23:27.597+05:30A shaky message from earth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-69879999114476332222015-03-14T11:06:00.002+05:302015-03-14T11:08:39.786+05:30Romeo and Juliet - Punjabi Edition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-78680863295722576952014-09-02T12:03:00.003+05:302014-09-02T12:06:36.090+05:30Ice-bucket challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dedicated to <a href="http://www.alsa.org/about-als/what-is-als.html">ALS</a> and the ice-bucket challenge. You don't have to dunk yourself in ice cold water to enjoy these.<br />
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-42649553040960090982014-08-24T13:55:00.002+05:302014-08-24T13:55:46.086+05:30You know you love books if...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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#2. You can tell whether you're talking to a fellow book-lover. Or not.</b></span></div>
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-10520343885146970922014-06-22T00:03:00.003+05:302014-06-22T00:11:02.092+05:30Heads up for tails!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I love dogs and have quite a few friends who are dog lovers too. Here's a comic that expresses my feelings about dogs:<br />
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This comic is dedicated to all the dog lovers I know, as well as to <a href="http://www.headsupfortails.com/">Heads Up For Tails</a> who invited me to their launch event last week. Here's a snapshot featuring the cute cupcakes and quotes from their store launch:<br />
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-56074903220570997232013-11-14T23:01:00.000+05:302013-11-20T16:45:01.668+05:30To Eat and Drink good is Travel made Brilliant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Elbert Hubbard rightly quoted, “No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one”. This statement is probably truer, if you have had plenty of good stuff to eat and drink while you were on a vacation. It is probably the only time when we bother about nitpicking what we eat given how busy life generally has become. Therefore, one of the lasting impression of your vacation is what you ate and more importantly how.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We are all powered by different fuels. Some of us love water, for the rest of us a cold bottle of Soda suffices. Some of us like something healthy like a milk product to accompany us, while for others, something refreshing like coconut water does the trick. The bottom line is we have diverse choices when it comes to what we want to carry when we travel. </span></span></div>
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-84852438065225298932013-11-01T21:57:00.000+05:302013-11-01T21:58:06.112+05:30What does Diwali mean to you?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here's wishing everyone a Happy Diwali filled with more of what's in the first panel :)<br />
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-53422306310910916812013-10-04T12:07:00.000+05:302013-10-04T12:07:33.585+05:30Window Shopping!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Inspired by my recently addiction to online shopping ;)<br />
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-71419581797821725482013-08-30T22:23:00.000+05:302013-08-30T22:23:04.161+05:30Sailing through choppy waters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-81980484322882607472013-07-05T12:47:00.000+05:302013-07-05T12:47:58.365+05:30Dear Yahoo, Work is what you do, not where you go.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For a considerably long period of time (over 5 years now), I've been a full-time, remote-worker who works from home, a cafe, an airport, a co-working space or wherever else I may roam - in any city or country where I choose to be.<br />
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I love my job and what I currently do makes for a large part of who I am. The fact that I have the freedom and flexibility to do it from anywhere makes me love it even more. I get to work with multiple geographically scattered teams and audiences, across various time-zones.<br />
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Over time, I've come to enjoy the remote-working mode. It helps me achieve a balance between working alone with maximal productivity at some times and collaborating with people and teams using various collaboration tools at other times. Of course, I make occasional visits to our company offices as none of these are located in the city where I currently (choose to) live. These visits are helpful because I get to spend time meeting and talking in person, with the colleagues and teams who I work with and this helps us bond better before I get back into remote-working mode.<br />
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This method of working has made me a firm believer in the fact that people work best when they're given the freedom and flexibility to choose how they want to work. I'm thankful to Zoho, for giving me this freedom and flexibility and for their faith in me as a remote-employee.<br />
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Not all companies are as futuristic about their policies and culture. In fact, a couple of months ago, when <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130222/physically-together-heres-the-internal-yahoo-no-work-from-home-memo-which-extends-beyond-remote-workers/">Yahoo! made it mandatory for all employees (even those who were originally hired to work remotely) to work from Yahoo! office</a>, it came as quite a shock to many of us who've chosen this working style and believe in it. I meant to share my opinion about Yahoo!'s move and I finally got around to doing it this week, thanks to a discussion about it with a friend yesterday. Here's my first Hitler video around this theme:<br />
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Thanks to <a href="http://femina.in/">Femina magazine</a> for featuring me in their main story last month (April 2013 issue)<br />
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I like how Klout tracks topics that a person may be influential about. Yes, they are sort of accurate about those (although, in no way would I believe I am influential about <a href="http://klout.com/#/meerasapra/topics">hospitals and vegetarianism</a>!) But what I can't understand is the concept of simplifying "influence" to just a number. And here are some Klout comics inspired by <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/8/3461226/your-klout-score-must-be-greater-than-35-to-read-this-post">true-stories</a>.</div>
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Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-87832905845807832022011-12-21T22:19:00.000+05:302011-12-21T22:19:19.767+05:30Before you know it...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Inspired by <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/meerasapra/status/149431477468282880">my own tweet</a></div><a href="http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=4272508"><img src="http://static.toondoo.com/public/m/e/e/meerasapra/toons/cool-cartoon-4272508.png" /></a></div>Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-30054308364880553862011-12-12T22:15:00.000+05:302011-12-12T22:15:56.710+05:30Delhi turns 100 today<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">But why are we celebrating?</div><a href="http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=4224435"><img src="http://static.toondoo.com/public/m/e/e/meerasapra/toons/cool-cartoon-4224435.png" /></a></div>Meerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840107689295914079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403034871035322240.post-89415763830542277072011-12-07T18:52:00.000+05:302011-12-07T18:52:10.550+05:30Sibal's Censorship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Kapil Sibal <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/screening-not-censorship-says-sibal/457797/">says</a> the government wants to screen, not censor the internet. Is there a difference?<br />
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