24th May, 2010
Posted by Navin Harish - 1 Comment
Six and a half years ago I moved next door to a 76 years old man, an old man who lived by himself as ne never got married. I didn’t realize what a glamorous neighborhood it was till I found out who that old man was. His name was Aloke Dasgupta and he was a »
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18th May, 2010
Posted by Navin Harish - No Comments
At R K SWAMY, I set up the team, I helped in defining the services, I ran the operations, I helped in pitching for new business, I oversaw the creative and operations of all the projects executed till I quit. We executed some brilliant projects and won 2 awards.
However none of this is among the »
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25th March, 2010
Posted by Navin Harish - 1 Comment
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 »
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21st March, 2010
Posted by Navin Harish - 3 Comments
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 »
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21st March, 2010
Posted by Navin Harish - 15 Comments
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 »
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14th February, 2010
Posted by Navin Harish - 3 Comments
You feel life sucks if you have to work on a weekend. Think about all the Shiv Sainiks and MNS people who have to not just work today but have double the work load.
The Valentine’s day was bad in itself and it has coincided with the movie My name is Khan. People from Shiv »
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5th February, 2010
Posted by Navin Harish - 1 Comment
“May be in the next elections we should vote for an opposition as well as a government.”
A government by the people, for the people of the people may be the most popular definition of democracy but in my opinion the most important aspect of a democratic government is the opposition.
The opposition keeps a check on »
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