Musings of somebody trying to comprehend a complicated and imperfect world
This year's Gandhi Jayanthi (october 2nd) found my wife and i watching 2 brand new movies at the Theatre, one after the other (yes, we decided to do some crazy stuff) and to our luck found ourselves thoroughly satisfied with both of them. Considering that tamil cinema in recent times has been littered with depressingly… Continue reading Tamil Cinema’s coming of Age – hope the spark continues
I recently completed this masterpiece by Daniel Goleman and it made for some absolutely fascinating rumination. The concepts mentioned in this are quite profound and extremely relevant in today's world. Though this book is more than a decade old, it is all the more startling as to how much importance is still placed on IQ… Continue reading Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ – A book review
As the wife and i were reading through reviews of the recently released movies in order to choose one for our weekend outing, we came across this interesting one. A person who shares my first name as well as a similar background seems to be stirring some interest in the Telugu movie industry (popularly referred… Continue reading From IIM to Tollywood
Two very interesting but quite related incidents took place over the past week India's vision of seeing a Rs 1 Lakh ($2500) car finally became a reality as the Tata motors delivered the Nano to its first customer. This project went through significant challenges and this event definitely deserves mention amidst this background. India's Prime… Continue reading Nono to Nano? Or TATA to green environment?
The new government ushered in the month of July 2009 by announcing a fuel hike of Rs 4. per litre of petrol and Rs 2. per litre of diesel. In a sense, the announcement was not completely a surprise. Consecutive governments use fuel price as an effective lever in the political drama by taking advantage… Continue reading The Great Indian Fuel Hike – common sense takes a backseat
I recently caught up with a close pal of mine from business school. He, would to a large extent, is a good respresentation of the modern Indian executive. He is a child of the Indian globalisation phenomenon (read that as someone who did his education in the mid to late nineties), has sterling academic qualifications… Continue reading Sabbatical – the panacea for the modern-age overworked executive?
The last 3 months have been quite hectic from a work front and i did miss out on blogging. So I was down but not out and will resume blogging shortly.
The last 3 days have been probably the most dramatic in the history of Corporate India for quite some time. Satyam (which ironically means truth in Sanskrit) - India's 4th largest IT Exporter which is listed even on the US bourses saw its fortunes crumbling overnite with an interesting confession from its chairman that it… Continue reading The Satyam Fiasco – A good opportunity for corporate India to come to terms with reality
The wife and i spent yet another friday evening at the sathyam multiplex complex catching up on famed director Gautham menon's latest offering staring his favourite hero surya. The promos of the movie were pretty cool showing surya in various getups including one with a awesome six-pack. The movie had also been in the news… Continue reading Varanam Aayiram – Movie Review
I have always held a perception that the books that win literary awards are probably the boring ones which are only understood by a select pretentious few who like to portray themselves as guardians of literature. It is with the same skepticism that i began to read Aravind Adiga's book, The White Tiger which recently… Continue reading The White Tiger – A book review
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