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Book Review: Mother Pious Lady By Santosh Desai
Mother Pious Lady contains a collection of essays on common Indian attitudes, mindsets and habits – the quirky, the inherited, the imitated, and the acquired. The author, Santosh Desai (one of India’s popular social commentators and columnists), has an enviable sense of humor and an inimitable style of writing that stems from a deep understanding…
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Crowd Pulling
Tuangou: a Chinese word that means Team Buying. It essentially refers to individuals combining the power of the internet with the collective power of a group (vis-a-vis an individual) to compare and bargain better prices for a product or service for the benefit of at group. You would probably also know this concept by other…
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The Intrepid Traveler
‘The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist’ – Russell Baker’s quote on tourists might apply to current times, but in the era before budget air travel, people fancied being recognized as tourists. It meant they visited places—either domestic or international—to see the attractions and wonders of the…
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It is their world too
There are scores of charitable organizations for human beings and very few for animals, especially in India and particularly Chennai, my hometown. It was for this reason that the Blue Cross of India was founded – to rescue and care for abandoned animals in the region. In fact, it was one man’s campaign against cruelty…
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‘over’ indulgence?
Would you say ‘yes’ or ‘no’? Being tuned to News Feed and Tweets is like constantly entering and exiting a party that’s bursting with ideas, opinions and feelings of people you already know? (Well, at least often it seems a like a party and sometimes a Doomsday congregation). Social Media conversations may not be exactly…
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Cultural Training or Stereotyping?
It is possible that one or more of the following describe you: Work in a multinational environment Market/sell your products or services in more than one country Expatriate Communicate with an international audience, maybe even just online Lead a multinational team If yes, then you’ve probably had a chance to experience some sort of cultural…
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Meaning is the new $$$
The paradox of abundance is that it drives people to find exclusive ways of doing and consuming even the most mundane things. As living standards (in middle class communities in developing and developed worlds) rise, the lines between the ‘haves’ and have nots’ blur, thereby sending people in a scurry to find new ways to…
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Karma Kalender 2011
This might look a bit too early given that we haven’t even set foot into the last quarter of the year. But if you want to help a worthy cause, now (until end Oct 2010) is the time. Karma Kalender, a calendar project, is a private initiative to support Doctors for Developing Countries/Ärtze die Dritte…
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International, eh?
Nowadays the front-runners in the list of self descriptive adjectives seem to be ‘international’ and ‘global’. Or at least that’s what I hear frequently around where I live. In a world of global inter dependencies and diverse work environments, it is hardly a wonder that these same adjectives which were once used only by relief…
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After microblogging…?
With due respect to those who still find the motivation to put their thoughts on paper and keep those thoughts tucked away in a chest of drawers and other hideaways, it seems keeping a journal or penning thoughts in a diary have joined the list of archaic human habits. The pervasive growth of the internet…