Most of have visited the food courts in malls (in India). Over the last 7-8 years malls have become the favorite destination of ours as it has food & movies (for men) and shopping (for women!). Malls are able to attract crowds because of movie theaters and it these crowds which get into food courts. Food courts too don't do that well unless … [Read more] about Food courts in India, the revenue numbers
Interview: Will India see convergence of offline & online media?
Recently Audience Matters (link broken) carried an interview of mine which was related to Oneindia.in, languages, offline/online media in India. Publishing the copy of it on my blog, … [Read more] about Interview: Will India see convergence of offline & online media?
Huffington Post acquisition – is Content King again?
Since early days of the internet one of the most often used terms is - Content Is King. Good content will always have value or rather it will finally get its value. The Huffington Post acquisition by AOL showed good content has value. Few notable points, HuffingtonPost.com launched on May 9, 2005. Started operations with seed money of $2 … [Read more] about Huffington Post acquisition – is Content King again?
Tiananmen Square, Tahrir Square – does India need its is own Square?
I came across an interesting piece "Leadership lessons from Mubarak's failed regime", written by John R. Ryan, president of the nonprofit Center for Creative Leadership. Not sure how many Indian political parties will even want to read such articles. Way back in 2009 Bob Johansen wrote in his book, Leaders Make the Future, wrote about ten … [Read more] about Tiananmen Square, Tahrir Square – does India need its is own Square?
Indian languages on internet, the tipping point has arrived
Today's Financial Express article "INDIAN LANGUAGES IN THE DIGITAL WORLD: Language No Barrier" talks about the Indian languages in various mediums - print, TV and internet mobile. Local languages dominate in both the print media and the audio-visual media (TV, movies, radio). Hollywood has found it lucrative to dub movies in local languages … [Read more] about Indian languages on internet, the tipping point has arrived