Words Of The World

It's unbelievable yet so amazing, how media through it's various channels have conditioned our mindsets towards everything happening around us. Media is the new Messiah controlling our actions and reactions to what ever that takes place all around the globe. A fairness product launch is a different thing. But when you see a super star and a public figure in a T.V. commercial enticing the Indian males to use a product in order to get a lighter or a fairer skin tone, it does add to the bottom line of the product. And the bottom line or the revenues are not the only thing to work for. While you promote such products, you indirectly and maybe unknowingly, send out a message. A message that instills a sense of inferiority among st the dark skinned males.  There is Iran working on it's nuclear power plant project. But media showcases Iran as a threat to the globe because one superpower does not want Iran to stand neck to neck with it. A home is good with a basi...

What is more profitable according to you. To stand against everyone and calling yourself an individual, or stand with and amid st everyone and being called out as One. It was the 80's and the 90's when India was INDIA. Yes, that is a deep statement. India was not Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and other states to name as it is today. I remember travelling to Bombay by train every year to my maternal grand parents. Bombay Central is a fond memory. Gradually, Bombay changed to Mumbai and Bombay Central to Mumbai Central. And yes, Madras to Chennai. It goes beyond my imagination instead of Chennai Express, if it would have been Madras Express. I wonder if you my friends, realise how "Secular" as a nation we are. Not standing as a nation but as different "Unified" states. That is not sweet sarcasm. That is Irony by Instinct. Mumbai in these times boasts of  the Maratha culture and sidelines people belonging to other cultural  roots. From Bihar, came a...

This is going to be long but in the end you will find it worth while. I clearly remember my father bringing home the very first cellular phone launched in India. The geometry box, so rock solid that it could be used as weapon in self defense. Back then, it was all exclusive. Having a cellular phone and making calls from it was one thing that added to a man's repute. Till i completed my graduation and did my post graduation, evolution took it's toll. Technology advanced and evolved. The same phone which could be used as weapon in self defense was available in a size that could fit in your palm. I was smitten by fantasy of cellphone possession. I got one when i stepped into college. There were less of calls made but more of text messages exchanged. If there was a love affair happening, the spine would be the love TEXT message coming from the beloved.

 शुभ दीपावली  Here's wishing you a very Happy DIWALI in advance today. This is one of the times when every city looks beautiful as anything. It does not matter if you witness this scene while you are on one of the streets of any city or you are in a plane flying over the skies of any city or you are in a train crossing the distances from one city to another amid st some villages too. It has to be a visual treat. From small houses to big mansions to corporate towers creating the skyline lit up so beautifully, they surely make up for a visual treat . It's like being invited to the visual Feast of the Almighty himself. All that is good but there's one thing that's not good post Diwali. While we enjoy Diwali with our family and friends by burning crackers, there is a Cumulative Diwali Syndrome being build up in the air which would act very soon on every one, once Diwali is over. We, the people, birds and animals are the ones who suffer from this la...

I just had a situation. I was browsing an e-commerce portal and found a nice deal. I entered my debit card number. Wolla! It just got declined. I am very sound on cash in my account. Just that the card was not yet activated for online transactions. And that is when the man of the moment, the messiah, the Personal banker heroes in. Hence, i got my deal. Ha Ha! Talking of E-commerce, have you realized the way whole buying behavior of the consumer has changed. May be, the buying behavior has changed because the buying procedure has changed. There were times when you browsed the collection in the retail stores and asked the price. You either proudly ordered  "Pack It" or to avoid the embarrassment, quite sheepishly you would say "I'll Just be back". I have had this great experience working with an E-commerce company post my post graduation. The concept then sounded new, exciting and very much enticing. Today the concept of Online selling and buying is ca...

Anybody who can answer this question in a convincing manner, wins respect and admiration from my end. I fail to understand why is it and what is it that Indians, Yes INDIANS in foreign lands are so law abiding and so into the limits. I have seen live examples whenever i am on an international tour. Be it Mauritius, Europe, Singapore, America or any other nation for that matter. Indians act so careful about the respective country's norms and regulations as if they are born, brought up and served by that country. My brain nerves bleed pain as they are unable to find a convincing answer to the same. Indians, when on international tours do not drop there cola glasses out of the window in the middle of the road. But here, they do mind putting that glass on a glass holder in there car instead of throwing it out on a busy street. Indians, when on tours in other countries do not drop the fruit left overs and other trash out of there coach's window in the middle of a busy...

     Today morning i were in my car driving down to some place for some work and Delhi rained good. When i say good, it stormed and the streets got water logged. Well it happens when ever it rains in Delhi. Forget Delhi, it happens in the biggest and the most developed of nations. So hey, i am not complaining. I am here to talk of something else. I usually keep my cars updated performance wise. I don't mind the seat covers being dirty, a pack of wafers or crunchy lying in some corner. Blame it on me or the men, we like our rooms shabby, so our cars. At least i do. But this beautiful morning, in the middle of a jam packed street , one of my car's wipers breaks creating a mess. I tend to avoid it and then another surprise, the engine heats up. I see smoke coming out of the bonnet and i don't know what to do. I start hoping for the best that could happen. And the best that could possibly happen is, when the car breaks down(God forbid if it does) it should b...