At a bus stop in Bangalore. Among the waiting commuters are a young guy and girl sitting and chatting on the bench. A BMTC Volvo bus arrives and wheezes to a stop. Guy: “Let us go in this bus.” Girl: “But the fare is too high. It will come up to 80 rupees. I usually…
On the clammy evening of the 3rd of June 1991, during one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of independent India, a cargo van broke down with a flat tyre on a busy highway leading to the Sahar International Airport in Bombay. The van contained a highly classified and secret cargo, the existence of which and the…
Online retail is going from strength to strength and is slowly squeezing the life out of traditional “brick and mortar” book shops, most of which are now hopelessly corporatized anyway, losing their soul and life. Anyway, what are these bookshop businesses doing to counter the onslaught of online e-Commerce giants like Amazon and Flipkart among…