Forget all the conventional arguments about Hindi soaps being regressive, banal and what have you. Try watching them for a week, they are quite hilarious and follow a harebrained pattern. Here is why many of them should appear on the Comedy Central channel. *A camera will always pan thrice on...
Read MoreBooz & Company has been tracking CEO succession for over a decade, and there are some clear lessons from their studies. Their latest report says, In 2012, 15 percent of CEOs left office, up from 14.2 percent in 2011. This is the second-highest rate of CEO successions in the history...
Read MoreI do not believe in luck but then I don’t have to, I have got a rotten one. Why oh why do the unstable-jelly-like-people get everything? I mean, what is he telling her anyway? It does not reflect well on her if she is enjoying that conversation. She is laughing...
Read MoreThis was an evening when two southpaws hogged the limelight. One of them, an eight year old spin bowler from Mumbai, Musheer Khan whose father and coach Naushad, had changed their return plans in the last minute to get a date with the other more sought after left-hander, Yuvraj Singh,...
Read MoreI graduated from a reputed National Institute of Technology and joined a major automobile firm in 2010. I realised in few months that tech was not for me and decided to do an MBA . CAT 2011 was my first attempt. I prepared well but answered a few questions I...
Read MoreA total of 83,662 candidates have registered for the September 2013 Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) of which 54,882 candidates are males while 28,780 are females. A total of 60,110 candidates fall in the general category. Corresponding registration figures for September 2012 CMAT were far lower with only 60,000 registrations....
Read MoreThe answer is not an easy Yes, although there are enough qualities in women to suggest that women actually make better sales reps than men. Let’s look at some of the top qualities that one may look at an excellent sales rep, Detail oriented Analytical Logical Good at networking Not...
Read MoreOne of the best things about traveling is the absolutely unexpected situations you find yourself in. The more you fight the circumstances to stay in your comfort zone, the more the problems you are bound to face. My beer brewing guide has little to do with the philosophy I just...
Read MoreIn a move that could be a paradigm shift for the Indian higher education, premier business schools have, innovative-ly (again!) through a resolution of their 69-member board, announced to profile their students based on animal personas. An announcement detailed that b-school students will no longer be marketed to corporates for...
Read MoreThis is my second trip abroad, the first one being in Germany for 3 months in exchange in Leipzig Graduate school of management. I was very apprehensive of interning in Indonesia. I had some preconceived notions about Indonesia. I was specially concerned about the alcohol sensitivity considering its the largest...
Read MoreIf there’s anything that competes on sheer exasperation with the act of threading a needle with one’s hand, it is shooting birds in the wild. With your camera, that is. For all the vivid fashion quotient that nature has endowed birds with, they are thoroughly disinterested about getting photographed. It...
Read More“I really want every IIM-ian and MBA grad to read this. I am a woman and I passed out in 2008 from one of the top three IIMs. During my days at IIM , I was approached by many guys , mostly by those who were in the clubs and...
Read MoreHe was an inquisitive man and had an insatiable thirst for knowledge. These days, especially, he was learning so much about history, geography, anthropology and constantly discovering amazing true facts about the vileness of foreign brands, instructions seals on gas cylinders, the hidden names of politicians, stages in the life...
Read MoreWith the movie Chennai Express entering the elite “Rs 200 crore club”, I wonder if its content is really worth that much. I leave that to you to decide. However, there is one thing we should not miss noticing amidst the euphoria. That the success of this movie is in...
Read MoreThis is supposed to be a work of fiction. But there is only one way to genuinely enjoy this film: by treating it as an authentic recreation of a very important though unfortunate event of contemporary history that we know nothing about. Besides that a woman with a bomb strapped...
Read MoreI have come to detest the term bachelor. Along with students, we have become the second most hated tenant subsection in the history of Mumbai. These are some pointers for how you go about actually getting a place for rent in Mumbai, if you fall in this vile category that...
Read MoreWhoa! What? Did you say Q? Yes, it’s The Q (Qaushiq Chatterjee), the maverick, the radical, the insane, the genius. Like his name, his films too are bizarre. This particular flick is his adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s novel of the same name. And as expected, Q leaves no stone unturned...
Read MoreThis triangle will help you remember the most basic formulae for TSD. Given below are a bunch of other concepts, formulae which come in handy while solving questions. Average and Relative Speed If a body is moving with speeds s(1), s(2), s(3), … s(n) and the time is constant for...
Read MoreLot of aimless shooting of roads, aisles, etc, in offices, airports, roads & malls, brought me this collection of photographs. How does one shoot parallel lines or roads or anything? It’s just chaotic lines. You would recognize the city, if you have ‘noticed’ it from the air before.
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