Jul
4
I watched this short piece on Current TV a while ago. While I was intrigued by it, I wasn’t blown away with the business model. First, it’s hard to scale and secondly, there are no barriers to entry. If this takes off, there will definitely be new entrants. But looks like Forsche has had a [...]
Jul
2
Remembering R.D.Burman…
July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
I had a bunch of R.D.Burman tracks, and I found a couple videos on YouTube - so wanted to package it all together into a post. June 27th was R.D.Burman’s 69th birth anniversary. Popularly known as Pancham (fifth note in Hindustani music) to his family, friends and fans, his music has been enjoyed by more [...]
Jun
29
Mumbai-Pune Expressway Among World’s Fastest Roads
June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Wired features the world’s fastest roads in its latest edition of the magazine, and the Mumbai-Pune Expressway is one of the five fastest roads.
Writes Wired, “These are well-engineered roads with sporadic law enforcement and a high straightness index. They’re in places where fairly consistent temperatures prevent car-tossing pavement buckles and there’s no danger of road [...]
May
3
Kiran Karnik, former President of Nasscom, was the closing keynote speaker at the Indian Business Conference 2008. Karnik said, Innovation will the key to India’s future. And good innovation doesn’t just mean product innovation (new products coming out of India), but could also include process innovation. For e.g.
For anyone that has traveled in a crowded [...]
Apr
29
From the makers of the ubiquitous Stag umbrella
April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Fast Company has an interesting write up on the change in strategy by the makers of the Stag umbrellas. If you’re from Mumbai, you need no further introduction to the ubiquitous, black Stag umbrellas and the reasons to own one.
Threatened by cheaper products from China, the company switched from a low cost strategy to [...]
Apr
29
How much can you hate?
April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I watched Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday a couple months back, and I’ve been wanting to write about it. Kudos to Anurag for making this gutsy movie. The movie has been reviewed by many, so I really have nothing to add in that space. But I’ll say this - if you watched [...]
Mar
8
Leaving another footprint online…
March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Why blog? And why blog now after leaving a trail of 3 abandoned blogs.
For one, in the past it was simply cool to have a blog. Now I believe it is necessary for one have an online presence and footprint.
Secondly, my deeper involvement with blogs at work require me stay at the forefront [...]
