When is the new year celebrated in India? Tough question to answer my friend. The answer is really "that depends". There is a spate of new year celebrations happening in different parts of India of late. The Sikhs celebrated the new year on 14 March to mark the first day of Chet - the first month of the year. The Parsis celebrated Jamshedi Navroz on 21st March 09. The Kashmiri new year Navreh was celebrated on 25 March '09. Two days later the the people from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka celebrated Ugadi to ring in the new year.

The "Mistry" in question is Pranav Mistry, Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. What do you get when you combine a Web cam, a projector and a mirror, all connected wirelessly to a Bluetooth smartphone. You get Sixth Sense. Access to information that exists somewhere can give you an advantage. Hey look what having a search engine can do to the way you retrieve information. The constraint is that you pretty much need to have a cell phone or a portable computer which will give you access to the database. The When connected to the internet, the huge database of real time data can create a game changing device like sixth sense. You can watch the demo at Ted.com TED is short for Technology Entertainment and Design. That is one of the places you go to find out what is cool. And if that peer group gives you a standing ovation, you know that you are on to something big.

Fresh out of Business School, MBA in hand, the taste of toast and mixed fruit jam still fresh in the mouth, when we joined the work place, life was very simple. You came in to work and bust your guts trying to work. We all hoped that the big boss would get impressed with our dedication.