Do we have enuff of political branding? Keep politicians name off the NITs

Recently ,I came across profile of an investor on Linked in . When I looked for his college, I found that he had neatly written it NIT- State. When I thought deeper on it I got some really crazy thoughts. We have all IITs which are suffixed by their city name. We have all IIMs [...]

Anna Babu,Yeh hai Bum bayee meri jaan

Disclaimer : This is a biased monologue of a highly contrarian thinker who is too lazy to do research. The author takes no responsibility of heartburns after reading this. You are advised to buy adequate antacids before reading this Bombay probably is a city of hip shakers. No just hip shakers but gaudy hip shakers. [...]

Entrepreneurship aint sexy ??? 2 little paragraphs with a view

The world is full literature mentioning that entrepreneurship is hard on knees. Some say, its as hard as falling in love. It brings in a lot of uncertainties and it keeps most of us from taking a leap of faith. We remain glued on to our day jobs. We do not know how long the [...]

Why Anna talks will keep failing and it needs more to make lokpal succeed

We don’t have an eternity to realize a corruption free India. Even if we had, little will be realized when the pests (read politicians) have sucked our nation dry. If we recollect our freedom struggle, though Gandhi is most credited and publicized, he was only one of the  major cogs in the wheel. We had [...]

Jump !! it wont kill . Even if you die, it wont suck you

I was sent a link (Given at end of post ) to an Article by William Quigley of Tech crunch by one of my friends. This dealt with value creation in tech companies and timing of investment. One sentence which touched me deeply was : “The valuations of today’s private tech leaders – Facebook, Zynga, [...]

Delights of being an Entrepreneur

There was so much of verbosity and then twitter shoved them backstage. We all have our sentences, we need just words as signals. Trying a new blog form to share with all . First month’s joys of being n Entrepreneur:Why you should love and not fear starting up

Western Digital (WD ) and Overnite Courier – and Consumer Redressal Forum

Western Digital is one of the worst company in terms of post sales commitment.  The hard drive i bought died within few months of purchase and I tried to invoke warranty. Never know that I was dealing with people of thickest skin I pursued a 10 month long battle to finally get a replacement. Please do [...]

ICICI Bank and its customer vexations

Lethargic Banking service in India. The blog is an actual email conversation with ICICI Bank Executive

Siemens PLM Chess Championship 2008 , Pune

    The Warriors Subsequent to my semi final victory the stage was set for Finals. I had heard from my peer that one of the semi finalists was an extremely good player of chess. He was champion in 2005 and 2006. I decided to gather more information about him. The first step was to [...]

Ipod blues annihilated

Imagine, you buy an expensive car ( For say Rs 1 million)… in normal usage( No accident, no crash) condition it breaks down in 6 months and fails to start.. You approach the manufacturer… he looks at it .. and realizes that the car cannot be repaired. He offers you a new car.. As a [...]