How ‘unbreakable’ are you? I’ve been watching this sitcom on Netflix – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. For those who haven’t watched it, UKS is about a girl who goes about her life after being rescued from a doomsday cult. Although she pretty much received a raw deal for a larger part of her life, Kimmy refuses …
One year on, the feeling lingers… Winning is not everything, it is how one conducts oneself in defeat that matters. The biggest scientists, the leader of over 1 billion people – are humans after all. And sometimes, it is more important to feel human, than to keep it all inside and cry. A leader is …
So when is the tech bubble going to burst? This year has been the one of the worst on record, with GDPs across the board plunging, not dipping. Yet the tech mania seems to continue – the latest entrant being Ant Financial. For those who lived through the Dotcom boom of 1999, and it’s subsequent …
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 …
