Who says what to stay smart
Smart politicians. Smart bureaucrats. Smart managers. Smart journalists. Smart soldiers. Smart bloggers. Smart authors. Smart travelers. Smart housewives. Smart shoppers. Smart vendors. Smart drivers. Smart cyclists. Smart walkers. Smart parents. Smart enemies. Smart speakers. Smart beggars. Smart pedestrians. The truth is that there is no end to who or what aspires to get tagged with...
We’re almost there
Smartness is in. Today even a bin Thinks it is a sin To mix And not fix The biodegradables With harmful disposables. IoT is on its way to win Smartness is finally in. Look anywhere around in a store or browse anywhere on an online portal, the most frequent eyeball catchers will invariably be gadgets...
Stupendo-fantabulously-fantastical
What does the Indian consumer search for? What are the legitimate needs of the Indian consumer? Is it titillation at an affordable price? Is he looking for crutches to cross over from the dark ages of everything being available in some other country but not here? Is he just nervous that unless he buys he...
Picture books are not always only for kids
Picture books are not always only for kids Review of ‘There’s a little black spot on the sun today’ One poem. Minimalistic illustrations. And along with Malo, we the readers also understand how pain can be communicated through the pages of a book. Pain is ‘easily said and quickly written’ but can be...
Let me check if it is available
A lot has changed these past few years. No, I’m not talking about how I now weight 85 kilos and am no longer the trim 57 kilo large-eyed short fellow who has ‘a really good voice’. I’m also not talking about how the political profile of our country is now different nor am I talking...
Itadakimasu: I humbly receive. (Review of Robin Sharma’s ‘The secret letters of the monk who sold his Ferrari’)
If you like to travel, you’ll like this book. This book takes you all over the world to some really wonderful places and you’ll enjoy reading about those cities and the way they’ve changed over time. The author takes you to different locations all over Europe, Asia, and North America… and the travelogue part of...
The author actually missed IIT and kissed Gurgaon – Review of ‘Zero Percentile – 2.0’ by Neeraj Chhibba
Let me begin by three quotes from the book: Quote 1 ‘Salem was a frightful dog waiting to be unleashed and the lady, a financial wizkid. One was a doer, the other a thinker.’ Quote 2 ‘It was heady. But this will be the only time,’ Nitin pushed her away, not knowing whether what they...
Facing the demons within. Review of Conversations by Rajeev Nanda
Conversations can never be answers. They can, at best, be guide-posts leading somewhere… within or outside the self and they can be desirable or undesirable, discovered or yet untouched, needless or vital for survival, or simply a place or a moment where you sit and let your breathe become normal before getting up and resuming...
