Shrinidhi is not happy with the sudden changes in the paypal India policy. Neither am I.
The worst thing according to me, is that Paypal has enforced this policy change without any prior notice, any warning and is autonomously back dating the policy and enforcing it on already completed transactions, reversing them and causing huge inconvenience/loss to [...]
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Changes in Paypal India Policy
Published by February 6th, 2010 in Blogging, Business and India. 3 CommentsOpportunities in India : The NRI paradigm
Published by January 26th, 2010 in Business, Capitalism, Economy and India. 0 CommentsBijoy Mohan explores the new NRI paradigm :
The phrase “economic opportunity” is frequently used in economic discussions, but within India, it has always had a somewhat nebulous meaning. For generations, the opportunities open to citizens were determined by a socially stratified “caste” system and one’s place within it, which was itself determined by birth. A [...]
Harini’s insights on how things work or don’t in the ‘unique eco-system’ of the shooting floor:
Last week we were shooting at Sankraman – in Aarey. The same sankraman that was the home to the bulk of the Balaji soaps that used to be on most channels. If you had gone there a year ago – [...]
Lean and unhealthy
Published by October 25th, 2009 in Bollywood, Business, Cinema, Culture and Women. 0 CommentsRum remembers the days when actors didn’t have to starve to look good on screen and blames Kareena Kapoor and Deepika Padukone for starting an unhealthy trend:
I’m not gonna hate on all naturally skinny gals like Anushka Sharma, or others but its just that Kareena Kapoor is going all out to promote an unreal expectation [...]
Expensive malls, cheap products?
Published by October 23rd, 2009 in Business, Capitalism, Consumer, Economy, Environment and Globalisation. 3 CommentsBhagwad thinks malls are expensive, but very little of the money spent there goes to the employees. And then he says products sold at malls are ‘profitable because we don’t pay the full cost of products from the mine to the dump’. Now, which is true? That the malls are expensive or the products are [...]
Pran. D bemoans the never ending chase after breaking news on television and the farce that news has become ” On one hand our media is giving full day coverage to every case of pit-fallen child (and forgodsake uncountable such cases) and on the other Bihar government is planning to soon set up Frequency [...]
Fly, You Fools have a comic take on the Oktatabyeye and the Tata controversy.
Our earlier post on the same issue here.
Tata Sons Objects to the use of Tata in Oktatabyebye.com
Published by August 29th, 2009 in Blogging, Business and Travel. 3 CommentsPartha from Oktatabyebye.com (which is a travel portal) writes-
Very recently, TATA Sons filed a case against us (oktatabyebye.com) in infringement of their TATA name (as our domain name contains the ‘TATA’ word!). Tata Sons has contended that it is confusingly similar to its ‘Tata’ brand and the travel portal runner has no rights or legitimate [...]
Veteran fund manager, Sandip Sabharwal, believes equity markets are ripe for a correction:
I have been expecting a correction for some time, a correction of the magnitude that i visualised did happen post the Union Budget. Although in value terms it did correct almost to the extent of 15-20% from the top that i had expected [...]
Power Cuts in Delhi and the Call Centers
Published by July 8th, 2009 in Business, India and Society. 2 CommentsTarun blogs about his experience of dealing with BSES call center in the dead of the night due to a power cut.
There must have being few more, but I don’t remember them. After last call, I tried them for another 1 hour, that is, till 4 am; all I got is same answer. After [...]
Different schools for different classes
Published by June 26th, 2009 in Business, Children, Education, Policy and Politics. 0 CommentsAvinash thinks Kapil Sibal is progressive:
Kapil Sibal, the new HRD minister of India, seems to have taken a stand completely contrary to that taken by his predecessor, Mr. Arjun Singh – he seems to actually be interested in the development of the human resources in India… ;) I am impressed by the reforms Mr. Sibal [...]
The biggest problem of a woman entrepreneur is the social attitude and the constraints in which she has to live and work. Despite constitutional equality; there is discrimination against women. In a tradition-bound society, women suffer from male reservations about a woman’s role and capacity. In rural areas, women face resistance not only from males [...]
“Do Japa and Tapa To Get Better”
Published by June 16th, 2009 in Business, Corruption, Health, Violence and Women. 0 CommentsMad Momma posts the horrifying true story of a victim of neglect and a lot else at a corporate hospital:
The OT wasn’t on standby, wasn’t ready. I was numb with pain. They wanted me to get up and move to the operation table. I couldn’t move. They eventually slid something under my back and I [...]
Sanjay Mehta subscribed to India Today six months ago and is still waiting for the gift promised, despite several reminders and reassuring responses. The correspondence is very interesting:
Some interesting thoughts in this regard:
Subscription paid in early January, 2009. Now, in June, 2009, that is about 5 months later, no sign of gift!!
When they have no [...]
‘I, the Writer’
Published by June 2nd, 2009 in Books, Business, Internet, Media and Personal. 1 CommentRanjani Ravi, aspiring writer and young entrepreneur, talks about how he worked on the launch of I, the Writer (‘India’s first literary digital magazine for aspiring writers’):
I had my university exams in the second week of May. Thankfully, my university exams got over by 9th! So, I started working from 10th. I had chosen Joomla [...]
‘Paper saves lives’
Published by May 25th, 2009 in Activism, Adivasi, Business, Development and Women. 0 CommentsAnuradha Parekh talks about TARA, an NGO that changed the lives of women in an Adivasi community in Madhya Pradesh:
Sahariya tribe is a nomadic tribe in Madhya Pradesh that deals with poverty of the magnitude that mothers buy saris and tear them in half so that their daughters have something to wear. These people have [...]
Obama and outsourcing
Published by May 25th, 2009 in Business, Economy, Globalisation, IT, Policy, Politics, Regulation and World. 0 CommentsJoyeeta Biswas looks at Obama’s new policy initiatives on curbing outsourcing:
And even at one fifth of the salary of the American workers, Indian workers in the IT and BPO services still account for 5-7% of India’s GDP, bringing about a huge impact on cities such as Bangalore, the centre of the industry. Needless to say, [...]
Indian economy: Finest hour ahead?
Published by May 20th, 2009 in Business, Economy, India and World. 0 CommentsEdward Hugh asks: is the Indian economy heading for its finest hour?
Many are called, but few are chosen, as the saying goes. But could it just be that this time around, and on a one-off, never to be repeated basis, India might find itself right there in the midst of things, with a 50-50 opportunity [...]
Wish List
Published by May 19th, 2009 in Business, Caste, Education, Government, Health, Human Rights and Policy. 0 CommentsHarini writes a letter to the new Government, listing out a few basic expectations:
a) Education – If you haven’t noticed – there is a caste system been created in education. The way the system is moving there are one set of institutes for the middle class and one set for the poor. The former delivers [...]
Some recent graduates of our IIMs have started a blog at www.strat.in, where they discuss the strategies behind business and technology. Consider this a meta-blog about those two popular themes of many of our blogs. Here is an except from their latest post about an innovative way of advertising:
This guy walked into a book store [...]
iTunes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Published by April 15th, 2009 in Business, Humour and IT. 1 CommentPriyank reads through the Apple’s iTunes License Agreement and writes a hilarious post.
“THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, [...]
News from April 1st
Published by April 4th, 2009 in Business, General Elections 2009, Humour and Politics. 0 CommentsThe Desk Jockey cooks up some very interesting news:
The Samajwadi Party sprung a surprise when they short listed Chota Shakeel as a prospective replacement to Sanjay Dutt after a court denied the actor’s request to contest the polls. Likening Shakeel to “Circuit” from the Munnabhai movies, Amar Singh said that the real-life and reel-life gangsters [...]
The Great Indian Circus
Published by March 31st, 2009 in Business, Caste, Culture, Dalit, General Elections 2009, History, Human Rights, India, Media, Politics, Religion, Secularism, Society and Women. 1 CommentMaloy Krishna Dhar, ‘having seen Indian elections since 1952 as a school kid, managing a couple of these exercises during service career in the IB, manipulating a few on orders of the ruling cabal and witnessing the bones, marrows, and soul of the Indian electoral process’ describes an encounter with an election manager of a [...]
Tools and rationality for IT in education
Published by March 27th, 2009 in Business, Development, Education and IT. 0 CommentsAtanu has posted a very interesting article about the “effectiveness, efficiency, affordability” and ease of use of tools in general and then applies that analysis to the way Information Technology (IT) is being treated as a panacea for all diseases ailing India:
Even if we have determined that a CAT scanner is the tool required in [...]
No thanks to Mamata
Published by March 26th, 2009 in Business, Democracy, Development, Economy, Law and order and Poverty. 0 CommentsOf course, how can someone mention the Tata Nano and not talk about Bengal’s saviour Mamata Banerjee:
In the end, the market prevailed. Tata built its car in Gujarat and now a whole generation of people will be able to own their own cars and the freedom of movement that entails. Additionally, people with the Nano [...]
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