Looks like everyone is blogging these days, and using the new media (blogs, social networks) in different ways. Did you know Virgin Comics had a blog? Not just that, they’ve entered into a deal with MySpace to launch something called Coalitioncomix where MySpace users can have a say in whats being created. Basically, to the [...]
Entrepreneur Watch – Language Solutions
Here comes the July installment of the Entrepreneur Watch! I hope to profile atleast one business a month from now on, so watch out for more interesting material. This month, I have on interview, Anurag Goel, Founder of Cactus Communications. Founded by Anurag and Abhishek Goel, Cactus is a company that started off providing English [...]
Kiran Bedi is not amused!
There is ofcourse no link between the two events, but it is strange to note that just as we gained a female president (though controversially), the country’s top IPS officer claims gender bias in promotions at the highest level. Traditionally, most government institutions in India, including the police, place tremendous emphasis on seniority, so it [...]
Rate your Boss?
The Evil HR Lady (Isn’t she wicked?), points to this site eBoss Watch, a site where people can rate their bosses and others can view the ratings before deciding to work for a particular company/group. While I would jump at the idea of being able to spot a nogood boss before signing up, the site [...]
Indiaplaza’s Deathly Service
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Don’t worry – this is not another review with a spoiler, since I haven’t read it yet. This is a post on Indiaplaza which offered the book at a throwaway price, and now proudly proclaims that it has already delivered 15000 copies since the release 3 days ago. Well, [...]
The role of Indian Business
Any student of basic statistics soon learns that while some things may appear to go hand in hand (high correlation), they are not necessarily cause-and-effect pairs, or even related to one another in any way. Many people however don’t understand this at all, which is why you have people who blame the software industry for [...]
Madam President
So Pratibha Patil is President. Yoo hoo for womenkind and all that. Or not? Considering that the role of the President in India is largely ceremonial, I don’t per se have an issue with making it a token of some kind. So we had a Dalit president, we had a Muslim president, and now, a [...]
The Dilemma of How much service to Offer
Yesterday, I travelled by the Shatabdi train from Chennai to Bangalore, which set me thinking on the appropriate components of a service – In any good or service being offered to a customer, there will be multiple components, not all of which are perhaps necessary. The consumer may not value these equally. Some are hygiene [...]
Celebrity Branding
Any readers over the age of 25, will remember the kind of fan following that Aamir Khan created, when Qayamat se Qayamat Tak was released, way back in 1989. (Or 90?) Well, I was one of those teeny bopper fans then and continue to be an ardent Aamir fan today, notwithstanding a few horrible movies [...]
Airline Outfits – Whats the game?
On a trip to Kolkata last week, I travelled Air Deccan, which set me thinking about air hostesses on all the major airlines in India. Air Deccan has fairly neatly turned out air hostesses, even if they don’t have the ‘glamour’ of the Kingfisher women, and they wear long ankle length skirts showing very little [...]
