Can’t rid yourself of your experiences – good or bad

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I guess at some stage or the other in our lives we feel that we are at loss of words. Sometimes it happens that someone else says something which communicates what you are feeling. In an interview Mark Tully talked about his attachment to Indian and the UK and I feel this is how I » Read More

Bombay – the city I always loved to hate… and I hate to say I started loving

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Since I hated Bombay even before I visited this place, I have to say it is prejudice more than anything else. The local trains, the overcrowded city and everything I knew about Bombay was secondhand information and I have to admit that Bombay lived up to its expectations except for the only positive thing I » Read More

I can’t believe its not butter and Radhe Guru Maa

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In Australia I saw ads of a product called “I can’t believe it’s not Butter” featuring Fabio. It is a margarine and when I saw it for the first time I couldn’t figure out what exactly it was. For a few days I kept thinking that it is a comic relief, something like the “Quickgun » Read More

How much money can you put in art without ruining it?

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If you are old enough, you’d remember when Indian Television became more than just a movie on Sunday and Chitrahaar on Wednesday. We all have fond memories of TV shows at that time, be it the soaps like Hum Log or Buniyaad or smaller TV series of 13 episodes like Karamchand, Khandaan, Subah, Ados Pados » Read More

We struck Gold at Indian Digital Media Awards 2010

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Last night was special for me and my team at R K SWAMY Interactive as for the very first time we nominated our work for an award and for the very first time we struck gold. We bagged the gold award for ‘Best Website Debut’ for its website the humantouchofchemistry.com. We were actually hoping to win » Read More

Can your brand custodian see beyond the next quarter?

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The easiest way to explain what I am saying is to ask yourself if given the choice, would you for any reason, go for a lower paying job? If the answer is not an outright “No” you already understand the importance of long term gains. They are certainly worth sacrificing some short term benefits. The same » Read More

If you have the cost advantage, you don’t really have an advantage

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If the USP of your business is lowest price, you can be assured that sooner or later someone will challenge your position. The IT, Telecom and a lot of other businesses are flourishing in India because we are able to do it much cheaper, not essentially better. One of the biggest requirements for these jobs is » Read More

Wow! You look 10 years younger

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Look around you and you will see a lot of young, small companies are giving the larger, established ones a run. Maybe it is the youthful appeal of those companies that the 100 years old corporations lack, or maybe it is something deeper. If youth is what people want and if youth is what is beating » Read More