The last few days many of us are glued to CNN in India watching the coverage of Hurricane Sandy. You can see a contrast in the language of the TV journos of US and India. If you watch the English news TV channels in India – CNN-IBN, NDTV, Times Now and Headlines Today you constantly […]
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Who gets how much when you buy a movie ticket in India?
Today’s Economic Times carried an article about the big hits in Bollywood, the ones that cross a minimum of Rs 100 crore ($188 m). These days crossing Rs 100 crore collection within 2 weeks has become a habit for few Bollywood stars. This article had one interesting piece, who gets how much from the movie […]
Handmade paper is passe, go for Elephant Poopaper!
Handmade paper was fashionable while I was growing up. Just recently I learnt in Sri Lanka about products being made out of Elephant dung. The Pinnawale elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka is very similar but better than what we see in the Dubare elephant camp in Coorg. A couple of shops in Pinnawale (Sri Lanka) […]
Book Review: The Curious Digital Marketer by afaqs!
Since June I had received a couple of mailers promoting the book “The Curious Digital Marketer”. We in India are usually accustomed to buying internet related books published by foreign authors. So it did generate enough curiosity in me to buy the book. The summary of the book was on https://campus.afaqs.com/book_details.html (a bit surprised about […]
Sharp fall in savings of the middle class in India
Outlook carried an article about the rising living costs that is hurting the large middle class in India. According to Wiki, The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy. The middle class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and […]