The New My Airtel App

We are a tech savvy lot. Everything needs to be in our fingertips nowadays. It wasn't too long ago that we had to frequent neighborhood shops to buy recharge vouchers, which we then scratched with a coin, messaged a 16 digit number and got new talk time. Soon that changed into the shopkeeper using his phone to directly send money into our phones, which eventually turned into us being able to do it from the comforts of our homes using our personal computers.

The latest in the field of easy recharging are the mobile applications. All you need is a credit/debit card and an internet connection, and you are good to go.

The new My Airtel App is one such fascinating application, which can be downloaded in both the Android as well as Windows phone, and comes with a range of cool features.

Mentioned below are three of the features I like best about this app-

1. The One-Stop-Shop for all your Airtel goodies

So, of late, Airtel has its fingers in too many pies, which means everything from your phone bill, both mobile and landline, to broadband connection to your digital TV is more likely than not managed by Airtel. Now, I am a self professed mall fan, because you get everything you need under one roof!
The New Airtel App does exactly the same thing for all your airtel products. It smartly manages your prepaid as well as postpaid mobile connections, your landline phone, your broadband services along with your digital TV subscription.
Not only can you manage and recharge them here, you are also given regular reminders and can look up the history of recharges including past favorite discounts at the press of a button, err touchscreen.

2. Airtel Money

Another amazing feature to dig is the airtel money that allows me to shop online and buy tickets among other things, without having to remember specific credit/debit card details. I always find the whole process of feeding in the card details while shopping very tedious, and this cool feature of the app completely solves it!

3. Showering Offers

All you have to do is shake that phone, and you will get awesome offers which will spoil you for choice, be it food, movie, clothing or accessories. There is an unending list to choose from and there is always something that is just right for you!
Not just that, you also have amazing offers in terms of recharges and talk-times for all your phone connections, as well as television and internet services. I find the discounts to be really useful for a person living off a student budget! Offers on full talk time as well as a range of validity to choose from is super cool too.

All in all, if you love to have everything organized in your smartphone and do not wish to be bothered about paying bills via a bunch of different avenues, and at the same time get great discounts and special deals exclusively for you, this is the go-to app for you.

So, what are you waiting for? Check it out yourselves at http://www.airtel.in/myairtel and have fun exploring!

Because Mamma Knows Best

I haven't been home for either my mother's birthday or celebrating mother's day for close to 5 years now. I send her gifts and letters, and have long telephonic conversations, but it doesn't really match up to the experience of waking your mom up for a surprise birthday breakfast, or spending days on planning a perfect Mother's day for her, full of things she enjoys.

And as the Jessie J song "Mamma Knows Best", which doesn't say much about mom, but sure is helping me with the writing process today, blares in my earphones, I sit down to write about the most incredible woman in my life- My Mother.

Yet another Mother's Day passed by, and I am some 1200 kms away from home, working on my thesis. 

Mom and Me in Ladakh, the summer of '05

I had the luxury of a stay-at-home mother, and so, all throughout my childhood, she was an integral part of my non-school hours. And for reasons I still quite haven't been able to figure out, she always knew when something was wrong after I returned from school each day. Be it anything, from scoring low in a test to having a fight with a friend, she would always know that something was up even before I had taken off my shoes and socks. 

Initially I used to be very fascinated by her "abilities" but as I started growing up, and reached my teens, it started becoming a bother. You don't want your mom to figure out everything, right? And I started overlooking her advice, and sometimes downright disobeying her during my teenage rebellion years and would always invariably find out the best course of action would have been to listen to her.

I remember asking her once, with awe, how exactly does she figure out that I am worried or pissed, and she told me with a straight face that mom's have a third eye, that tell me what is wrong with their kids. It's invisible, but that doesn't mean you should discard it. I was about 11 years old, too old to believe in such silly things, but her statement remained with me.

I have so many little beautiful memories with her that it is hard to describe them. 

Starting from running with my tricycle till I could balance myself, to making mock question papers before exams to taking me for music classes and cooking lip smacking dishes whenever I asked for them, now that I am grown up enough, I realize what a warm home I had. 

Right after leaving home, I realized I should have appreciated her more. And over these few years, the distance, and maybe even a bit of maturity has led me to realize that moms really are the in-house experts of everything that actually matters.

She might not know anything about economics (my subject) but she has enough valuable life lessons to impart. She has taught me everything from patience and perseverance to cooking the perfect plate of chilly chicken. She has taught me how to let go of things and people that hurt too much, and move on in life. 

You can't really express true emotions with words. But I am still going to try and say that I am who I am because of my parents. And my mother is the epitome of beauty, grace and compassion. She held my hands when I needed support the most, and let go when it was time to grow wings and fly. But no matter where I go, I will always return to the nest, to my mother. Because at the end of the day, she is the one with the unbiased advice, and hard hitting truths.

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