Social Media, What Next?
Hybrids come naturally in most businesses. Hybrid products/ services. The easiest example that comes to mind, is the BMW X6 (something between an SUV and a sedan). I don't think that particular line has been very…
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Learn To Be Still
Today's news had an article on how a Chinese mother had caged and shackled her mentally ill son in a homemade cage for 11 years. In 2001, the son, Wu, beat to death a 13-year-old…
Can You Handle This? Dangers of Bad Design
Can You Handle This? Dangers of Bad Design When making products, or even installing one, more often than not, haste does make waste. Some calmness and a little imagination goes a long way in avoiding…
Brrre..witty
In continuation with my interest in the importance of brevity in communication (to a greater extent in written communication, and to some extent for verbal), this post is made up of some interesting quotes on…
Au-shitz.!
Au-shitz.! With all the 'do good deeds' and 'do unto thy neighbour...' that has literally been beaten into our souls while we were growing up, I often wondered why some corrupt politicians and other people…
Ironman: Heroes Aren’t Born, They’re Built
"I've been called many things. Nostalgic is not one of them." -Tony Stark Many of us have been anxiously awaiting Ironman 3 [not sure if my connection was slow, or if the official movie site expected…
Spread A Message
The Delhi gang rape incident is still fresh in the minds of many. An intolerable mix of anger and helplessness is how I remember the incident. A few days after that angel from the Delhi…
Like Endorsing, Endorse Liking?
We all remember the notorious financial meltdown of 2007-08 that washed away a lot of dreams. We all know why it happened. Some wise (read greedy) people built a huge structure on an extremely very…
Beery Bad
Here's a first. A product review. Several weeks ago I was at a Raymond's store picking up a suit I had given for altering. On one of the display sections, a number of beer bottles…
So what’s your Point?
Back in Engineering, a bunch of us close friends had the habit of asking 'so what's your point?', usually when one of us was sharing details about some important or serious incident with the rest. For…
The King of Traumatic Times
How Vijay and Siddharth Mallya are handling the whole Kingfisher Airline fiasco is appalling. In a similar situation, way back, Richard Branson sold his first and extremely-close-to-his-heart business, Virgin Records at the insistence of financial institutions, so that…
Respect Women
Respect Women Is it really that difficult to see, or am I missing something? 19 rapes have taken place in a span of one month in Haryana. I simply cannot wrap my head around the…
To Adopt or Not to Adopt
State Home Minister R R Patil came up with a brainwave idea to curb crimes against the elderly in the city. His idea is, that every policeman must 'adopt' (take responsibility) of a senior citizen.…
Ferraris and Moral Sawaaris
This post is long overdue. And it is inspired by a dialog from the Hindi movie 'Ferrari ki Sawaari'. I had wanted to post about it soon after watching the movie when it had released…
Big Bizarre
I dropped into the Big Bazaar store for a bit last night (not out of choice, if you must know). But I must say, they've really re-done the place, in a good way. Impressive, must…