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The most-abused gadget...

I have a smart phone. But I am not smart enough to know what all (not even 10%) it is capable of! I wish to believe I am not alone in this (rather big!) group. Of course I am not that dumb (as you may like to imagine of me!). At least I know how to make calls and receive calls (very basic, right?), use WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger, see my facebook page, browse through some news portals etc. (Am I making you jealous!). But, if you ask me what each and every app is comprised of (the nuances of it), you will beat me hands down. No need to envy me! Yes, I know the basic things. For example, I do not know how to prevent some annoying feeds that crop up in my fb page. I just ignore them and scroll down. Only recently I learnt how to make 'free calls' through Viber. I get video calls on WhatsApp from my son, but I do not know how to call him (video call). Hey! I am a slow learner! Okay.... I still do not know how to see my personal mail inbox on my phone. (May be I am a bit lazy to

Metropolitan encounter

This is the first-hand experience of my friend, who went to Bangalore recently to visit his daughter and son residing in Bangalore. He is a small town-er, where the life is very much laid-back. This is not his first tryst with the metropolitan city, nonetheless, he found it quite enchanting, this time. He narrates his story...... 'I went to a mall in Bangalore (the city, where my son-in-law works) with my daughter's family. It is about a week back. The car was winding up and up and up to get a parking slot.... I was wondering whether we were going to a hill station.... How many floors we were climbing up, I lost count. May be 8 or 9! Each floor has space for about 300 cars, which works out to roughly 2,500 cars or a little more, in total. Considering on an average of 3 people per car, at least about 7,500 to 8,000 people must be inside the mall, doing shopping, window-grazing, eating, children playing games, and some simply loitering.... 'We went to a footwear shop.