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 10:12 | 5/Sep/2008 |
| Businesses thriving on superstitions | |
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| If a florist or a gardener offers you in a small pot, a bunch of 15-20 green stems with a few leaves would you be attracted to buy it. Unlikely, if it is kept in the midst of other floral arrangements of fresh or dry flowers. Even, if you do decide to buy it, how much would you pay for it. Fifty rupees at most. Now, if the florist tells, this is th...
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| 22:31 | 2/Sep/2008 |
| Lotteries fund programmes | |
| Lotteries are games of chance. They are treated with suspicion and contempt, because it does not reward ability but luck. Even if many people would secretly desire winning a lottery, it is not socially desirable to admit playing lottery, in many societies, particularly in middle-class India. Yet, lotteries play a very useful role in UK and US. A si...
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| 18:33 | 31/Aug/2008 |
| Web of rationalisations | |
| While reading the Analysis of a Case Study by Achal Bhagat in BusinessWorld , I came across a framework, which he calls as the web of rationalisations. I found this very useful and fascinating to understand my own situations in life and career. I think this framework with more thought and modifications can be applied to understanding organization c...
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| 11:10 | 31/Aug/2008 |
| Rapid strides by Indian space industry | |
| A few days back, I heard Prof C.K.Prahlad on television, articulating his vision for India@75. One point that struck me was, in the year 2022 Bangalore will be more known for its aerospace industry than as India's silicon valley, as we know today.Bangalore is home to HAL,NAL and ISRO. Yet, it is hard to believe that these companies or the industrie...
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| 15:08 | 26/Aug/2008 |
| Indian company gains from Olympics via E... | |
| Karuturi Global Limited (KGL), a Bangalore headquartered company, is the global leader in cut-roses production. The Olympics demand has increased the prices of cut-roses by 25 % and Karuturi has benefitted from it , reports Business TodayKaruturi Global started with a small four hectare rose farm in Bangalore in the year 1994. Today, the company ma...
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| 16:49 | 24/Aug/2008 |
| Blue-chips going blue on expenses | |
| The first quarter results for 2008-09 are still coming in. The broad direction is getting clearer now. For the companies, that have declared the results, so far, the sales have gone up well in line with expectations, but not the profits. The margins are under severe pressure. On the back of rising costs across the board and the head-line inflation...
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| 07:43 | 23/Aug/2008 |
| Banana for the poor, apple for the rich | |
| When I buy my weekly requirement of fruits and vegetables at a relatively upmarket superstore in Hyderabad, I see there are atleast four to five varieties of apples, green, red, Washington and what have you, but there are no bananas. Occasionally, one does see speciality bananas from Kerala, which are nearly five times more expensive than the norm...
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| 23:12 | 19/Aug/2008 |
| Branding in higher education | |
| In a thought-provoking article in Deccan Chronicle, titled " US Education : A study in world-class branding",Jayati Ghosh has made the following points.US higher education system is considered the most dynamic and successful systemIt is not so much the actual quality but the systematic branding which has created this perceptionDemographic reasons a...
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| 16:07 | 17/Aug/2008 |
| Would you cast this man as a Model ? | |
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| Look at the picture of this man. He looks like a middle-aged ,well-heeled businessman from South India. If you want to be a little more charitable,you could say he looks like an ageing South Indian actor. Yet, he appears in numerous advertisements. All from the same advertiser,Country Club India. Just watch him in his various attire in this adverti...
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| 15:00 | 14/Aug/2008 |
| Kosaku Shima : The Japanese Dilbert ? | |
| The Scott Adams' cartoon strip character Dilbert is extremely popular among the cubicle dwellers in Silicon Valley in USA and the Silicon plateaus, alleys and other geeklands all over the globe. Dilbert has a cynical look at corporate-speak, top management, HR, technology etc. It even has an Indian character, an IIT-grad, called Asok.The Economist ...
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| vishu | 11:58 | 30/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (6)
| City: Surat
| Interests: travelling, Photo...
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| Wolrd's most Famous Bridges |
| Friends lets have a journey for few unseen bridges of the wolrd. You got the chance of virtual walk on this bridges with your specialone/memories.
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| Mahesh Kuchi... | 21:46 | 8/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (26)
| City: Pune
| Interests: You read my blogs...
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| Waiting for 090808 |
| I am very much excited. Finally the day of my journey to home is just one day ahead. Am eagerly looking forward to join my family. would to like share some of my experiences in last few days. Some are really touching..Residence INN provides evening snacks (dinner) till 7.00 PM on three days. I was just late for this on wednesday and they were ...
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| vijayaram reddy | 17:41 | 23/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (877)
| City: Bangalore
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| IIT-PATNAMost recently I went to Patna (Bihar) to join my friend’s son in IIT. We went to IIT Administration Office to complete the registration formalities. They told us to adjust for 2 or 3 days for mess facilities as it is a newly started IIT. The facilities are naturally less when you compare with the existing IITs like Kanpur, Kharagpur, Bomb...
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| fozia aziz | 14:29 | 10/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (161)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: singing,dancing,p...
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| Rapunzel(part 2) The enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: 'If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, a...
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| satya dubey | 17:09 | 7/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (171)
| City: NOIDA
| Interests: eduction,culture,...
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| Reflections : Burning Issues- ii |
| In one of my blogs, I raised the question of burning issues which had not found sufficient expression in the blogs of the rediffiland. I am delighted to find very enthusiastic support and response to my pleadings and since then dozens of blogs have been posted on issues which directly affect our social, cultural and national life-not only as medi...
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| Srikant Sree... | 10:50 | 14/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (20)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Technology, Scien...
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| Freebase Parallax: A Better Google? |
| Google seems quite invincible at its numero uno position as the preferred way to search for information on the web. Then Wikipedia came along with tons of community edited “articles” that is in many ways more comprehensive and concise that visiting several Google links on any subject. Similar in spirit to Wikipedia is Freebase - Freebase is an open...
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| abhay sudhakar | 10:49 | 28/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (123)
| City: Bhilai
| Interests: watching cricket,...
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| Oh! Chanakya where are you ? |
| Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.The economic policies of the country haven't helped in improving the economic health of the country since independence to a large extent.Even now the need of foreign capital is felt for the development of the country.May be the policy makers are forgetting the fact that capital creation is t...
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| Vish Iyer | 23:41 | 31/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (214)
| City: Mumbai
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| Why do we Network - To learn or to fill... |
| Seeing an increasing number of people focused on adding more connections/contacts per week in an online world. Isn’t networking now becoming a chore today where people’s primary goal is making contacts/connections based on what the other person can and could do for you. Wish to better understand this new trend and debate this notion that the prima...
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