Read the previous part here… “If you want to hoard money and not spend it, I will make you like GuptaDhana. If you think it is better to spend the money that you have, then I will make you like UpaBhuktaDhana.” And saying this, the voice in the sky vanished. Somilaka was surprised at this …
Read the previous part here… Just like a small steam gets filled up easily, and a rats hand gets filled up with a little grain, an unenthusiastic man gets satisfied with very little. A man would always strive for more, and with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. It is said… यत्रोत्साह-समारम्भो यत्रालस्य-विनिग्रहः ।नय-विक्रम-संयोगस् तत्र …
How often do you change your passwords? Do you change them at all? Was eating breakfast this morning, and got a notification from the bank that AED 100 had been deducted for an OSN payment. I don’t have OSN…and so called the bank now, disputed the transaction, and blocked my card. In the meantime, logged …
How difficult is banking nowadays? With all the fintech floating around, I would assume it should have gotten better by now. Instead, we still have the countless paper forms to fill, endless days to wait (a month for an account!), hardly any business banking facilities for 3 years, and excessive charges. Where is that promise …
What are your pain points? Let’s touch base and leverage synergies on this topic… Sounds familiar? While I did have such ‘pain points’ before, they seem to have magnified in the COVID era of prolonged voice calls. Maybe I’m just noticing them more, since I don’t have a good cup of coffee to compensate:) Why …
A journey of a thousand miles…starts with a single line of code… 17th September 2019. Thats the day I first interacted with Ivanka Tancheva. “I want to set up a specialised food delivery app” she said. Sounded interesting, but I was skeptical initially. The business model was too niche, I thought. We had a couple of …
C U Soon… Have you seen this Malayalam movie yet? It’s on Amazon Prime with subtitles. Shot during the lockdown, using phones and mostly on computer screens, C U Soon is a taut thriller, starring Fahadh Faasil, one of India’s most talented actors. They experimented, used minimal resources, and came up with an excellent product. …
PUBG has now been banned in India…. But is it justified? If you haven’t heard about PUBG yet, chances are that you are living under a rock. The game took the world by storm, and that storm has not subsided yet. My view is not on the politics of it…but on the violence associated with …
We may remember Teachers Day as the day when we decorated the blackboard (or green board, as was in our case), and wished our teachers and thanked them for teaching us well. We may not have understood the importance of teachers day then, as we do now. Today, we live in different parts of the …
Read the previous part here… Somalika made a rope of Kusha grass, tied one end of it around his neck, and the other end around the branch of the tree. As he got ready to jump off, he heard a loud voice. It said… The voice said “Hey Somilaka! Stop! Don’t jump. I am the …
