When it comes to having changed the lives of millions of Indians post liberalization, the automobile sector must come second only after the Telecom sector. Almost all major automobile manufacturers in the world have their presence in the country today with models and variants ranging from 125,000 to 500 million bucks on offer, but heavily skewed…
No, this is not a Zoozoo-bashing post but about something that reeks of sheer incompetence and irresponsibility, that should not come from a company like Vodafone. Their new promotion: “Vodafone Superweeks” – You will not be charged for data if you use Facebook, Twitter, Orkut from April 18 till 22nd. So, like a loyal customer,…
When it comes to customer service, it looks like telecom companies in India are on a race to outdo each other in mediocrity. The less said about the call centers the better. Add to that billing errors, ‘document submission’ for ‘security purposes’ once every 3 months, non-receipt of payments, and total stupidity – calls asking us to purchase “one more…
(This was written for 11.11.11, but is applicable for any date, like all the 12.12.12 hype people are stupidly frothing at the mouth about right now) Human stupidity knows no bounds. An example of this is staring us in the face today where we have another fancy-number date on the calendar. And as it always…
The 20th movie in the Bond series, the fourth and final one to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional English (MI6) secret agent. A landmark movie as it was the last in it’s current running timeline for the past 40 years. Bond goes rogue defying M to find who had sabotaged his mission and landed…
Sidin Vadukut is back with the Dork, and the Dork is exactly as we remember him! “God save the Dork” is the sequel to the highly successful “Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese.” There are few people who can write comedy with the flair that Vadukut does, and he excels at it again…
When it comes to vehicles and general Indian populace, the saying “Little knowledge is a dangerous thing” acquires new dimensions in its meaning. Forget treating 800cc cars as a status symbol and defining masculinity as per your presence and command on the road and your ability to make all the World fall at your feet…
You are older than you think! Making you think many things happened “recently” is a trick played by your sub-conscious to make you think you are young and kicking. Inspired by XKCD’s Epic diagram that makes people think they are old based on movie release dates, and then 40 things that make you feel old,…
How the subscription model pioneered by electric vehicle manufacturers will transform the concept of ownership.
“Sir, all you need to do is just walk into our store!” This phrase is used by customer service people in India like it is the magic spell. When you hit a deadwall trying to grapple over bad the bad phone connection with the customer care executive help with your aforesaid bad phone connection, they…
“Dude, who won the Bangladesh – Sri Lanka match in the Asia Cup yesterday?” “Oh. There is some Cricket going on? Sorry, didn’t notice.” “What? How CAN you sit and cheer for some gora foreign country when India is playing at the Asia Cup? You don’t have any love for your country.” There we go…
Kerala KSRTC operates electric buses on regular timetables on urban and inter-city routes. Ten buses run daily services between Trivandrum and Ernakulam.