“Auto”matic change and beyond – Trust. Educate. Apply. Manage.

A nice workout, followed by a dinner that I got all dressed up pretty for, yummy food and interesting conversations, the romance, the happy waiter’s face after he saw the tip… and then… the auto-rickshaw ride back home.  Now that ride has made me stay up tonight.  Ah, haggling with auto drivers at the end [...]

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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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