Radio Indigo has succeeded in rocking Bangalore so far. Excellent music. Excellent RJs. No ads. Even since this started, I have been more than happy to hand over control of our Worldspace to my parents (who listen to Sai Global Harmony and Art of Living channels). How long the fun will last is the question. [...]
Mathematicians have this uncanny ability to make things for the rest of the world. A research paper in math (or any related topic such as Theoretical Computer Science) is judged not on the content or “value add” but on the proportion of the paper covered by math symbols. English is frowned upon, Hindi even more [...]
The other day I happened to see U R Anantha Murthy (for the uninitiated, he is a Kannada novelist and won a Jnanpith for Samskaara a while back) at the airport and was reminded of the impending name change – starting this November, the English name of Bangalore will be changed to BengaLuru. My fundamental [...]
people i travel with to and from office are software developers. yesterday i found out that all of them joined from the same firm. I thought it was a really good large-scale poach and told them that. And they said that it was actually a “build operate transfer” model, a la what we see in [...]
The drivers of all private buses, maxicabs and BPO jeeps in Bangalore should be quickly moved to Wall Street. They are ruthless, selfish, individualistic, aggressive and quick. Most important of all, they are really good at spotting arbitrage opportunities. //
My firm has this program called “give together”, which is our attempt at Corporate Social Responsibility. During the course of the next one week, the firm will work with kids from an orphanage for one day, having a blood donation camp on another and organizing a rally on Alzheimer’s day on the third. Of course, [...]
Yesterday I sent an SMS to Pradeep, who lives in a village called West Lafayette in Amreeka. A couple of minutes later, I get an angry mail from him ?loser, why did you have to send that SMS? I just got charged 10 cents for receiving that! You should?ve mailed?. //
Living in Kathriguppe and having my workplace in Whitefield means I have to bear the full brunt of Bangalore traffic twice a day, every weekday. Supply chain management, according to Prof Janat Shah, could be divided into three (don?t ask me the names of all three; I suffer from memory loss). At the first level, [...]
Recently I had written about certain lessons I have learnt from Hindu Myth. Here are a couple more, which are perhaps more relevant in the corporate context. Ganesha Subramanya Ganesha and Subramanya had a race as to who could go round the world faster. Subramanya immediately jumps on his peacock, which is the fastest thing [...]
living with parents and going home early on most days means you end up watching lots of TV, which in effect means you watch loads of ads. one of the best campaigns i have liked in recent times is the new pepsi ad with Rajeev Bakshi (the CEO) explaining that Pepsi is safe (in the [...]
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