at the very Core of it all … is Content!
We are a wired world. We check how coke prices are moving in Australia in an analyst’s blog. See what my cousin had for dinner in Arizona last evening on her facebook wall. We order gadgets and goodies online. Search the web for information, goods and services at the drop of a hat, browsing, checking …
Meet Suchitra Bahuguna* – a vivacious 30 something professional leading a team providing content to overseas buyers – someone who has always topped all the classes, always brimming with confidence and exuding an air of quiet efficiency. In so many ways, I used to think, Suchitra perpetually dressed for the corporate kill replete with her …
As the debate over climate change and global warming heats up (no pun intended), the world is increasingly getting divided between: the “so-called” perpetrators and the sufferers. With voices from both sides becoming shriller, the basic facts are beginning to bet buried, our focus shifting from the necessary to the tinsel. Global Warming and Climate …
The Rupee is on a free fall. And naturally, in its wake, it has dealt a body blow to all industries dependent on imports. Take metallurgical coke for instance. This vital raw material for those producing steel through the blast furnace route is rising, reflecting the Rupee-Dollar dichotomies. While the merchant coking coal companies are …
Q1. We have a website which is fairly informative. Isn’t that enough? A website is like a departmental store and the information contained therein is like the goods displayed on the shelves. But what good is a store if there are no customers? Customers are “web traffic”, the visitors to your website / store. Social …
Posted on September 19, 2012 A recession is gnawing in at the backdrop. The Rupee is in a free fall. The Core Sectors of the economy have been dealt with a body blow. The flow of money has been halted at all possible points. Salaries are being delayed, at places even cut. Fresh Investments are being …
How does it smell when hopes die? Is it the ranking stink of charred bodies and simmering implements of what people used to call “home”, doused in water from a fire engine’s hose pipe? Is it some strange cocktail of smells of sweat, grime, toxic fumes of the diesel engines, and suppressed tears of seeing …
Pink Slips. As the India Happening story meets its umpteenth hurdle on the way to economic prosperity, the term is being thrown about with gay abandon. Die-hard believers say that except the outsourcing industry which has its fortunes tied to that of the United States, the threat will be negligible. While at the other end …
Gujarat is “officially” a dry state. Bootlegging is rampant, as is availability of spurious alcoholic drinks, with an entire parallel industry engaged in ensuring that the tipplers have their supply lines open. The seamy underbelly of society works overtime to ensure the maintenance of the exacting moral standards as postulated by the Mahatma with successive …
The first warning bell was when a certain company started advertising in the popular media exhorting one and all to invest in their lucrative “potato bonds”. The ads offered as bait too good to be true returns on investment for short periods of time and I was genuinely irked. I called a friend who owns …