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12 Eye-Opening Experiences To Try In Delhi-NCR Before Your Kid Turns 12
By Tina Chadha You don't need to take a fancy vacation to make new discoveries or have fun. There are plenty of wonders in your own backyard, just waiting to be found. Delhi, the sprawling mega-city we...
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9 Reasons Why Flipkart Doesn't Need Saving
The Indian startup world was abuzz yesterday about a blog post by Haresh Chawla--"Saving Private Flipkart"-- outlining what he saw as problems with Flipkart, and proferring advice on how it could...
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5 Ways I Teach My Kids Healthy Habits In An Unhealthy World
Let's face it, the world today isn't exactly what you could call healthy. Thanks to technology, people are moving a lot less. Almost everything, from purchasing groceries to catching up with friends...
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Gurus, Money And The Laws For Doing Business
In my column "Without Contempt" in Business Standard, I wrote about the disconnect between the business regulatory framework in India and what businesses actually need for growth and success. I placed...
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Dear Mr. Trump, Mocking The Indian Accent Won't Get You Very Far
Dear Mr. Trump, Hope you are doing great. This is a response to your recent mimicry of an Indian accent at a rally in Delaware. But let me first sum up the opinion I have of America and Americans in...
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Good Intentions And The Road To Hell: Towards An Effective Indian Policy On...
Diplomacy is more often about managing problems rather than fixing them outright. It's also often about choosing the lesser of two evils. This holds true when it comes to managing enduring problems...
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'Game Of Thrones' Reveals Melisandre's Shocking Secret: Here Are The Clues We...
Before you start reading this post, I would like to warn you that it contains spoilers from the 1st episode of season 6. So if you haven't yet watched the episode, stop reading further. Game of Thrones...
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Snitches With Edge: The 'Stasi Punks' Of East Berlin
"They offered me the office, offered me the shop They said I'd better take anything they'd got" -- 'Career Opportunities', The Clash Berlin is a city steeped in deep historical movements that have not...
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Mourning Trimbakeshwar, The Temple Of Peace I Once Loved
A candid confession first: I do not really follow news. Being a working woman and juggling many things means that following media news coverage has fallen to the bottom of the priority list. Yet, every...
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Should End-of-Year Performance Appraisals Be Dumped For Good?
A shift in the way we think about performance evaluations has been taking place in the world of human resources. It's pretty exciting stuff. Some go as far as to argue that the performance appraisal...
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Did The Chief Justice Really Break Down Before The Prime Minister?
Did T.S. Thakur, the Chief Justice of India, "break down" before Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Perhaps triggered by a feed from the Press Trust of India, virtually every newspaper reported that the CJI...
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Indian E-Commerce: Misled By Bad Data
My analysis of Flipkart's existential dilemma in the article "Saving Private Flipkart" got an overwhelming response. There were some questions about the data I used for the analysis. I thought I should...
View ArticleClamouring For The Kohinoor
Most of us thought that the renewed cries to bring back the Kohinoor diamond were fanned by the Royal visit, but it looks as if the looming Punjab elections could be the trigger. How, you ask, will the...
View ArticleThe Micro-Moments That Matter To Marketers
Digital Branding Series #1: Understanding the micro-moments in a consumer's journey in non-Cartesian reality Micro-moments are what every marketer is talking about today--those moments of intent in the...
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3 Aspects Of Workplace Culture That CEOs Should Make Their Business
A CEO has a lot on his or her plate. They not only have to steer the strategic agenda of the company but also have to work towards making sure expectations of all stakeholders--shareholders, employees,...
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Palukur: The Daily Despair Of Drought
As my jeep tumbles along the incredibly bumpy mud road to Palukur village in Kandukur, Andhra Pradesh, I am surprised to see that the villages look quite normal. In my head, drought-affected villages...
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These Gutsy Women Dug Their Villages Out Of A Water Crisis
By Neetole Mitra Research shows that a rural woman walks around 14,000 km on an average every year, to fetch water for her family. On an average, she spends between six to nine hours each day...
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Photoblog: Fanning The Flames Of Faith At Aishmuqam Torch Festival
They are all bearing torches--the men, women and children. The flames cast the surroundings in a fiery hue, as the congregants gather at a shrine perched on a hillock. They are observing, with fervour...
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Dear Logical Indian, Motherhood Does Not Complete a Woman
The popular Facebook page 'Logical Indian' posted a series of sketches, by a Nordic artist by the ID @ab.bel on Instagram, depicting the hard work that motherhood is, the plight of a mother trying to...
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Stop Thinking About Sustainability
In any given moment, we put at the forefront of our awareness--consciously or unconsciously-- that which we have deemed most important. They are not always the things that are the best for us, our...
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