Tuesday, August 30, 2011

De Montfort' Doctorate to Dhoni - Least Expensive Way to Advertise in India

If you are a university keen to attract Indian students, how would you go about advertising yourself?
If you have brains as good as De Montfort you would bestow an honorary doctorate on visting Indian Cricket Team's captain.

The video clip of the ceremony would broadcast on all the news channels, news would be published
in all the newspapers and you would have saved gazillions of advertising dollars in one single stroke. And
yes, don't forget to stick your website url on the podium.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Comparing book prices across online book stores in India

http://www.mysmartprice.com/
http://www.indiabookstore.net/

Motivation : Few days back I have a dream by Rashmi Bansal was selling
for Rs. 50/- (including cash on delivery charges) on Infibeam, while on
Flipkart it was Rs. 101/-. 

Amrita (A Sublime Love Story) - Hindi Play

Watched it @ Rang Shankara on 27/8/11.
Notes :
  1. 105 minutes without an interval was too long a duration.
  2. It was a play about Amrita Pritam's life.
  3. Lead actress Lovleen(Lavlin) Thadani looked very much like Amrita Pritam herself.
  4. Vijay Nangyal, who played Sahir Ludhianvi, also looked like Sahir.
  5. Dug up more about Amrita Pritam - she was married at the age of 16 first. Then left him and fell in love with Sahir Ludhianvi and eventually settled down with Imroz. Pretty bold for her times, ain't it?
  6. 2003 Hindi film Pinjar is  based on her novel by the same name.
  7. Khushwant Singh once said her autobiography can be written behind a revenue stamp. In response she named her autobiography Raseedi Ticket (Hindi/Punjabi for Revenue Stamp).
  8. Ticket Price : Rs. 100/-

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Frenemy

Copied verbatim fro Wikipedia :

"Frenemy" (alternately spelled "frienemy") is a portmanteau of "friend" and "enemy" that can refer to either an enemy disguised as a friend or to a partner who is simultaneously a competitor and rival.[1] The term is used to describe personal, geopolitical, and commercial relationships both among individuals and groups or institutions. The word has appeared in print as early as 1953.[2]

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Businessweek article stated that frenemies in the workplace are common, due to increasingly informal environments and the "abundance of very close, intertwined relationships that bridge people's professional and personal lives ... [while] it certainly wasn't unheard of for people to socialize with colleagues in the past, the sheer amount of time that people spend at work now has left a lot of people with less time and inclination to develop friendships outside of the office".[3]