It’s the most widely available in the world. And completely useless, at least in solving the issues at hand. You see armchair experts everywhere. Lounging in street cafes holding animated conversations. Or consigned to a little square on your TV screen. Waiting patiently for nearly an hour to get two minutes and answer a question …
According to a feature in Wired, Audi is now the car of choice among young entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. It’s the mark of having arrived and reached a certain status among peers. The BMW, or the Beemer, is apparently no longer as ‘cool’ as it used to be. It’s become a victim of its …
Imagine that every channel is a slice of bread. And a slab of butter is the money available to spread across the slices. The smaller the loaf, the easier it is to spread generously. But as the number of loaves and slices mount, it becomes one of the hardest jobs to do. Which is the …
A couple of days ago, an anguished sports writer said what we all know – India is a one-sport nation. He moaned that we treat all our Olympian heroes who toil away unknown for nearly four years with such callousness, it undermines our ability as a nation to win more Olympic Golds. Which is true. With a …
We’re addicted to speed. We want cars that go faster with every new model launched. Automatic guns that discharge hundreds of bullets every second. There are drugs nicknamed ‘Speed’ because they provide an instant high – never mind the crash landing and the burn later. There’s even a new invention that allows you to inhale …
Its the fairy tale ending – the bookend to the phrase ‘Once Upon a Time…’ that signifies the starting of a story. The beginning that promises interesting times ahead. One used to yearn to know what happened after ‘Happily Ever After’. Did all the complications in a character’s life end? Or were they simply not …
Freedom.com on the web is a communications company. Liberty.com is a mishmash of tea party sentiment. And equality.com is permanently corrupted by a data error. Surprising how some of the most powerful words in our lexicon have such trivial outposts on the internet. The Freedom website, for example, looks as if it has not been …
Look up the dictionary for tough words like ‘disambiguate’ (remove the ambiguity from) and the results seem meaningful. The definition works as long as you are clear on what ambiguity means. Now, look up the word ambiguity – doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention. Look up doubt and this is what you get – …
One of the things that advertisers and marketers frequently wrestle with are the offers and discounts to be given to customers. How much? How often? What are the ways to reward the most loyal customers better? How can it be done without diluting brand value? After hundreds of years of commerce, there’s still no black …
It was a highly anticipated show. India’s ‘Thinking Star’ Aamir Khan has used his persona to address the country’s problems. And the picture he paints in the first episode isn’t pretty. Female Foeticide has grown by leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades to a horrifying statistic – 30 million girls killed before they …
