at the very Core of it all … is Content!
Have you ever played chess against a computer? You begin, cowered by the fact that the computer represents the combined knowledge of all the chess players of all times, its artificial intelligence and memory running into gigabyte making it almost invincible? Yet you advance your pawns, move your bishops and your knights jump into the …
I have always been a heavy drinker – by any standard of tippling. I have been the chosen one, Bacchus’ blue eyed boy, ever since I can remember. I love my “whiskey- pani” and have literally drunk life to the lees (drunk myself silly, say detractors) not a single evening having been lost without the …
“What is going to be the socio-economic and political fallout of the Sharada fiasco” is the question that everybody seems to be asking these days. The law will certainly take its (albeit, long and arduous) course and justice will be delivered in the last reel. Politics will get murkier as the issue is pregnant with …
The channels are spitting venom, castigating the ruling party, their predecessors (the present opposition) and the powers that be in the center – depending upon who is wearing which stilt – and the public is drinking the details of debauchery to the last lees. Then the tastefully groomed anchors ask you to stay on and …
I was badgered with a very strange query the other day while conducting a seminar on Sustainable Development and Climate Change. “Aren’t these matters for the governments and the big industries to figure out?” asked a typical geek. “I mean, how am I bothered really? Is there anything I can do to actually make a …
“I head the Corporate Communications Department of a mid-sized limited, listed entity dealing in commodities. My questions are simple: How do “traditional” corporate communications make the transition into the social media space? We already mail our releases to the media, do we also need to post it in facebook? How do we ensure more visibility …
“All his happier dreams came true A small old house, wife, daughter, son, Grounds where plum and cabbage grew, poets and Wits about him drew; ‘What then?’ sang Plato’s ghost. ‘What then?’” Impeccable Academic record. Networked to the nth degree. A mind that spots opportunities as they evolve. An ever smiling demeanor that leads teams …
Travails of the trade – irritants Social media marketers have to bear with 24 X7 Being a social media consultant isn’t easy. Some say, it’s like teenage dating – everybody wants to do it, but hardly anyone knows how to go about it. On the contrary, it’s more like appreciating arts: there are the Philistine, …
It was late evening. The otherwise thriving office block was silent, for the hum of the air con. The darkness interspersed with a few lit cubicles, where as the HR head of the company pointed out, the bang on achievers and the super dedicated were literally burning the midnight oil. Curious, I wanted to enquire …
The Great Wall of China is one of the most formidable defense systems of all times. A military wonder whose sheer scale and magnitude bewilders us to the day. Built over centuries and by successive generations, it called for an incredible will of the rulers of the day, who were willing to go to any …