There is nothing like smartphone shopping to make you aware of how things are changing in the country. I was doing some heavy-duty research to find a replacement my 3-year old Sony Xperia E3 Dual which with its massive 4 GB internal memory (yes, not RAM) was giving me some problems, to put it mildly….
Bangalore had always been the city of my dreams. It had captured my imagination a very long time ago, right during the innocent days of my childhood itself, long before the IT boom that created the so-called “Silicon Valley” of India and the mindless frenzy of greed and destruction turned it into the fustercluck it…
A car is a must today. No doubt about that, especially when there is little effective public transportation in India. But the car ownership funda in our society is totally warped with “emotional” or perceived factors outweighing the logical and rational ones. India does not have a “driving culture” or an “automotive culture” save some…
Banana Corporation, Inc., does not sell Bananas. I mean, we would love to, since we love Bananas which are the reason for the existence of our role models: The Banana Republics. (No, not the overpriced cloth selling places! Look it up. Havent you heard of Wikipedia? #fail) Anyways coming back to subject, we are an…
As we all know, Crude oil prices have reached historical record low levels with prices touching $30 a barrel for the first time in 12 years! Oil prices have been in free fall since June 2014 when it was $105 a barrel, up front a ever-historic high of $143 in June 2008. Apparently this oil…
For many, especially the neo-liberated Indian in small town India, buying a car is a dream come true, the process of acquiring it is a dream process come true and car salesmen are dream merchants. Whatever people might say, I believe that globalization and capitalism have liberated us. It it were not for it, you…
Prologue The other day I witnessed a brawl on a bus where a person took objection to another using what is (wrongly) called “unparliamentary language” when speaking on the phone. The outraging guy told the other that it was not his culture to shout incestuous words to a busload full of passengers at the top…
Last Monday (Aug 29, 2011) some major newspapers had an advertisement campaign supplement for the new Volkswagen Jetta issued with them, printed on thick paper and in silver color, all glossy, shiny and metallic. The campaign included among other things, what you would call a “social media marketing campaign” or promoting your brand/product using social media…
Facebook is not just a great way to ogle over women in your friends’ friend lists, but is an awesome way to let the world know about stuff by sharing content and links from all over the web (and publicize your blogs, hehe :)) And Facebook has an awesome way of presenting these links on…
So, as per the US and President Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden is dead. If Wikipedia, the trusted source of all the World’s information is to be believed, the operation to nab him was carried out by a “Joint Special Operations Command” of the US Army with inputs from the CIA. This shatters our belief…
What is the big deal about driving a car? A car is not much different from that 100cc bike we have been riding since we hit puberty. Sure, it is a bit wider, has two more wheels and position, size and shape of the levers, pedals and such controls change a bit. But it is…
Facebook has pulled one over itself again! Well known for changing their page designs and systems more frequently than Yahoo changes CEOs, they have recently changed the Wall design leading to widespread uproar from users, maybe becuase as people usually do not like changes that disrupt their comfort zones. However, that was just the prelude….
