Cassette tapes – Do people even use them?

Yes.  In prison.
No, seriously.  Even today.
I used to have a pretty neat collection of tapes, about a decade ago.  Some stolen (borrowed and never returned), some gifts, some of which I actually saved up money for.  And a few months back, I was in S’s house and we suddenly went down memory lane and dug [...]

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A restaurant without food?

And you create a whole new business model on that?
There is one founding concept that this whole model thrives on. Trust.  The patrons here are expected to bring/cook their own food and are given the spatial expanse of a old boathouse converted into a rustic harbourside restaurant.  And they leave behind any amount of money [...]

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Power holidays – The power to tweak today lies in you.

In the wake of the power holidays being imposed throughout the city,  I was reading a couple of articles and was surprised to see one issue not being addressed anywhere.  We talk so much about the gap between the supply and the demand, we blame the lack of wind and the southwest monsoons, we claim [...]

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Madras sans Hoardings – Eyes wide shut

Before April 2008, I could see blue.  I could see yellow.  Pink.  Red.  Orange.  Purple.  I could see various other colours whose names menfolk reading this cannot comprehend. (Men cannot understand words like teal ) All of this on the colourful hoardings that adorned Madras’s skyline.
But there was one colour that I rarely saw.  [...]

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A little beyond a lime juice…

When I walked into one of my neighbourhood eatouts after a gruelling work out one day, I ended up thinking about how people do very little to keep up a brand image built over years of hard work.
I am a regular there.  So much so that my friends and I even contemplated buying them new [...]

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Brand new day

WordPress just seems a lot more functional and cooler than most other blog sites.  So I moved my blog here.
Just to give you a quick update, you are entering my world and my take on stuff that intrigue me.  Branding+Management, Social Capital+Grassroots, Music, Humour, Entrepreneurship and some random thoughts as well.  Also, I am going [...]

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