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Getting back 5 or 6 years ago, what do you do when you feel sad or low, you talk to your mother about your problem, you try to ping your best friend and pour your sad story. What do you think is happening now. The phase which you call facebook or social media era. When people miss their friend, they simply update their Facebook status “hey X I miss you. I wish you were here now… feeling sad”. So what is that people trying to convey by letting other 500 friends on Facebook by this status. Is he/she missing  X? or he/she wants other people along with X to know the feeling of her/him? I'd a friend in college, who doesn’t talk to anyone (mostly) in classroom, but she has a good flow in crying in her Facebook status. Why this contradiction. What makes people to let know their other 500 friends on Facebook that she's feeling sad but, not to the one sitting next to her at classroom. Facebook has changed people behavior to large extent unknowingly. People ...

Café Lune A café from the post independence era There are many French restaurants lifted every year around the white town at Pondicherry, but only very few know that café lune is the first French named café started in Pondicherry at 1960. When I entered the café for the first time, undeniably I stepped back to 1980’s period which is not frequent scene you encounter in the French colonized city. Brother for life  A quick go through the café will give you a glimpse of 80’s style of interior which left unchanged for decades.  Anwerdin and Ansari are two brothers who otherwise called as cleaners, servants, cashiers and pride owners of café lune. Café lune started at 1960 by their father C.A. Gaffur. “Café lune means coffee on moon”.  Elder brother with 8 th grade and younger brother with SSLC took the responsibility of running the café at 1970. Café lune welcome visitors with a signboard with a social message on it given by foreign authors and local authors....