Rainbow nation... Cape of Good Hope... last piece of land... safaris... Nelson Mandela... So many thoughts come to your mind when you talk about South Africa. Today I did a series of amazing interviews with people who are connected to South Africa in some way or the other on "Eyes on travel" - a special episode for CNNNEWS18,  about discovering that amazing country. From the one and only Jonty Rhodes, who spoke about all the adventure sports that he's experienced - abseiling,  paragliding, sky diving and bungee jumping - to actress & film maker Pooja Bhatt, who spoke about the short period that she lived in Cape Town on her own and how she has also filmed there. I also spoke with the South African minister of tourism, Derek Hanekom, about his views on safety and the India-South Africa connect, while Go Beyond Travel's Shantanu Chand shared his tips on making the best of a safari excursion in SA. And finally Roxanne Bamboat (The Tiny Taster) told us what's

This is a message, a forward rather,  that I received via WhatsApp. While some of it might be far fetched, most of it will see the light of day soon. Let me know what your thoughts are. ____________________________________________ In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they got bankrupt. What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 year - and most people don't see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superiour and got mainstream in only a few short years. It will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agric

Hey, So this is a cool App (so to say) that I came across. Actually, my friend discovered it and added it to our WhatsApp group.  It's called " Max " a personal assistant on WhatsApp. So we're all on multiple WhatsApp groups and we make plans with our friends for dinner, movies, cricket matches, etc. " Max " can be a tab of all the people who have said they are "In" or "Out" for the event and also sends reminders. The best part is that it's not an app that needs to be downloaded. All that the group admin has to do is add the number of Max to the group. Once that's done, anyone can schedule an event and the others reply "In" or "Out". It's a FOC service. Has anyone used this service? How's the performance? Any other options for this kind of a service? It's kind of freaky that a bot somewhere is scanning all your msgs and also has a copy of all the msgs posted on that group. Won