PT TECH By Yazdi Tantra: Accu Battery – Accurately Monitor Your Battery

Every time you charge your device, it wears out the battery, lowering its total capacity. Scientific research shows that battery lifespan can be extended up to 200%, when you charge your device to only 80%. Accu​Battery measures the actual battery usage using information from the battery charge controller. With AccuBattery, you can monitor precisely how much battery your […]

KNOW YOUR BOMBAY

Reay Road: Reay Road was named after Lord Reay, Governor of Bombay (1885-1890), opened in 1910, originally was used as a terminus for the Kurla-Reay Road harbour line. Reay Road is a Grade-I heritage structure. Also a Harbour line railway station, it houses many iron goods stockists and is also a source for traders who […]

Check It Out (2017-04-15)

Workshop On Productivity Through Apps WZCC presents a workshop on ‘Productivity Apps for Workplace’ by Yazdi Tantra, on 22nd April, 2017.  First come first serve basis. Registration mandatory before 20th April, 2017.  For details, contact Aban Mistry on 9619165444 / 23532522 or email: wzccindia@on-lyne.com. . . Seminar On Harnessing Nature’s Energy The Senior Citizens Association […]

Film Review: AFTERMATH

On 1 July 2002, after taking off from Moscow, a Bashkirian passenger airliner and a DHL cargo plane had collided over Germany, resulting in a casualty list of 271. Director Lester alongwith writer Javier Gullol have woven the story into a film which, while managing to hold your attention thorough the hour-and-a-half, fails to be […]

Film Review: BEGUM JAAN

Genre Drama Minutes 135 Director Srijit Mukherji Movie Rating 2.5/5 Shot entirely in Jharkhand and set during Independence on the western border  (the original Bengali version ‘Rajkahini’  2015, was set on the eastern border), Begum Jaan  opens with scenes of an old lady stoically  rescuing a young women from going the Nirbhaya way. Begum Jaan […]

Film Review: Mukti Bhawan

When one has a premonition that death is imminent, there is bound to be consternation. And when the person happens to be a 77-year-old, there could be some amusing moments too. Septuagenarian Daya (Lalit Behl) wakes up one morning to harry his son Rajiv (Adil Hussain) into accompanying him to Benaras in order to spend […]

Meherbai And The Single Burning Question

It was Sheroo’s birthday. She was Meherbai’s neighbour and the birthday-girl personally did all the chowk-chadan-toran-sagan herself before carrying a silver tray containing sev-dahi-banana and a boiled egg covered with a delicate embroidered muslin. Sheroo desperately wanted to get married and ever since she was 20, her parents, friends and match-makers (kaj-walis who were themselves spinsters) showed […]