The OG Blog

since Sept 2007

Writing since before social media was a thing. 150 posts and counting.

2 August 2023

Who could not move my cheese?

  The corporate system we have created is too intricate and entrenched to simply press a 'refresh' button. From the earliest days of schooling, we instill in children a predis…

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13 December 2022

The next chapter

If you get a seat on a rocket ship, don't bother about which seat is it, but just grab it! I read this long back, but applied it some time back when I got an opportunity to be part…

In GeneralLife DiaryPersonal
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29 May 2022

Motherhood

Flashback: Seems like it was only a few days back, when blogs were a newbies. In a world sans the social network, or mobile apps, i would happily spend hours, sitting in the middle…

LatestLife DiaryWords not enough
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4 November 2020

Personal leadership brand

Whether it is Elon Musk launching his new rocket, Baba Ramdev giving a stiff competition to FMCG majors of the country, or an Indian  GenZ  social media influencer, Ankit…

Corporate LifeLatestMy Take
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21 January 2020

New year in the old blog

Unknowingly, I have got myself into the custom of starting the new year with a quick trek, thanks to the beautiful city Bangalore, or rather the beautiful outskirts of Bangalore. U…

Personalpost MBATravelogue
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5 May 2019

Consumer view of Digital Retail in India

Consumer view of Digital Retail in India My digital marketing professor once told us – If you want to see response of an idea, just ask a person around you. That would be the small…

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3 January 2019

Not just any new year post

First things first, welcome 2019! We are now just an year away from the Cliched "2020", the year which used to be such a content driver to make all sort of predictions and future w…

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9 April 2018

Before and After

B-School changed me. But it changed me for good and my blog for bad. Or so as I like to believe. I no longer write about what's on my mind, FB has started taking a major chunk of i…

Corporate LifeCreative Mee..Life Diary
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31 January 2018

The other view

So after 10 years of regular blogging, 2017 clearly marked itself as the year when I officially stopped being a regular. However, I do wish to begin 2018 with a Happy New Year note…

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12 April 2017

Leveraging IoT for Smarter Buildings

Imagine if one of your EOD (End of the day) task at work is collecting the ingredients of a pre-decided dinner recipe just outside your work place. Or picture coffee machines at wo…

Internet of ThingsIoTTechnology
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19 March 2017

Deriving business value from the intersection of Edge IoT with Artificial Intelligence

According to The Economist Intelligence Unit IoT Business Index 2017 ( Link ), though 90% of business owners accept the evolving convergence of IoT in business, there are 2 major d…

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28 February 2017

The Indian On-Demand Economy

In last 2 years, as an independent earning millennial with hardly any financial liabilities, there has been a major shift in my spending patterns. Having succumbed to what onc…

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21 August 2016

What did you learn from failure?

I have shifted job since I last posted here , in the blog. Instead, I have been posting a lot on Instagram, tweeting a lot, retweeting a lot. I have even been writing on Medium now…

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21 April 2016

How happy are you?

Newspapers, WhatsApp Groups, FB Newsfeed had all been flashing Anant Ambani last week. The third generation of India's richest family had turned heads around as he  lost a who…

AbstractHappy DaysIn General
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9 April 2016

Simple Rules - Complex Blabberings

A disclaimer first. I am making an assumption. It says that there is a creator and not just some random chemistry and physics involved. So when GOD created universe and started inc…

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21 March 2016

On a Charged Up Future Ride

Success is how you keep increasing the level of your playground and keep winning the game. Elon Musk today perfectly defines that in a beautiful way. Having founded companies that …

LatestLearningMy Take
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25 February 2016

Did you just spot the next Big Bang?

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Corporate LifeMy TakeSales Diaries
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7 January 2016

When the year is still new

Seneca would have just felt ashamed, His philosophies would all seem framed Had he been active on facebook or quora, He would have opened a box of Pandora For the posts shared on t…

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14 December 2015

Flashback

23rd November 2008 8 am, Cold Chilly Foggy Sunday Jaipur Morning  Why did I fill this form up, just because the words " International" and "Business" on the brochure looked go…

After OfficeIIFTPhilosophical Me
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7 December 2015

The view

  To live a decade in a year and a year in every moon cycle, Of exploring genres of extreme music, people, places and careers all together From sipping the exquisite wine arou…

AbstractdifferentIn General
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19 November 2015

Palace of Illusions

You may say all you want, to Chetan Bhagat and "his-kind-of" writings but I think a good thing which happened during/after these MBA turned writers started penning down his fiction…

BookReview
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24 October 2015

Saturday Quickies

The last week had been very interesting and nostalgic. All I could think of was Mr. Sharma's sales class during my B School stint. That was the nostalgic part. Interesting part was…

After Officepost MBASales Diaries
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5 October 2015

Gatecrashing a RoadTrip

That's what heights of desperation can do on a nothing-else-to-do extended weekend  Jog Falls Western Ghats Somewhere in South Goa DDLJ Almost! Swimming at DudhSagar Road in t…

Happy DaysTravelogueWords not enough
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20 September 2015

Evolution of The Sunday

Sunday is a species of its own kind. And how it has evolved for me. The good old days, when I awaited the Sunday Newspapers! Though thinking of those times, when in grade 5, how I …

In GeneralLatestLife Diary
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25 August 2015

This too shall pass

Eyes are a gateway to soul. When i was bidding goodbye to my grandpa after one of my home trips in Jan, i saw something in his eyes which scared me even though everything looked so…

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31 May 2015

Roadmaps: A Byegone Era?

Remember the world before whatsapp? It wasn't so long back when communication costed a lot more and less instant. There is no denying the fact how things are changing at a speed fa…

LatestMy TakeThink Tech
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26 April 2015

Whoever believed in love at first sight

3rd September 2012,  Waking up sleepy eyed..swollen eyed, in my luxurious guest house where I had arrived a night before to a place out of no where to what was the IT hub of t…

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15 April 2015

Overrated

Happiness is surprising yourself in morning by deciding not to go to office as you oversleep till you can waking up to a self indulging cold coffee with chocolate as you sip it whi…

AbstractLatestLife Diary
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10 April 2015

Of our freedom and the choices

We had an English teacher, who had a very unique style of teaching. I remember, one of his individual assignment, in class 11th even included watching an assigned English movie and…

AbstractLatestSummers
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7 April 2015

Midnight Techs

One can try and take a person out of technology but can't take technology out of a person (read yours truly). Hence, while discussing the adventures and little joys of ethical and …

After OfficeThink Tech
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4 March 2015

Alive is Offline

When i went trekking last year, i talked too much about it. Only about it. Maybe i sounded like that neighbourhood aunty who had never left saddi dilli & talks only about it wh…

AbstractPersonalPhilosophical Me
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7 January 2015

Never Short Sell Yourself

The 850 points free fall of Sensex this Tueday made me think.  If life is a big gamble, the closest analogy I can think of is the stock market and very obviously, we all are t…

AbstractAfter OfficeIn General
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6 January 2015

Life Modelling

Just Realized. Life is so-like those stupid strategy models I used to build for my MBA Assignments. It's like a blank slide in the beginning. So here's the quick recipe: 1. Start w…

After OfficeIn GeneralLife Diary
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28 September 2014

Firsts

Night Trekking. Both the first of their kind! Am not sure who can better tell the experience, the muddy torn shoes and jeans or the super achie legs the next day after the 12 hrs t…

Life DiarySelf PatTravelogue
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5 May 2014

Random happyness

Deadlines are good. You just need them, compulsorily! to get anything under Sun to be done. Even planning a break, which actually would be an oxymoron - why would it be a break if …

post MBA
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19 April 2014

Random Happy Day #3

Traveling & being with family can easily be the two most relaxing gifts you can gift yourself. It just can't better when you combine the two and travel with your family to a ne…

Happy DaysTravelogue
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17 April 2014

Random Happy Day #3

Happiness is getting your long desired dream come true. It makes you realize that when they say it's the journey and not the destination which matters, it perfectly makes sense :) …

Happy DaysMBA Life
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15 April 2014

Random Happy Day #1

Too much talking was always bad in my dictionary, but to add it's only as bad as too much not talking and thinking, which comes with the luxury of time! So here I go Random Happy D…

Happy Days
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7 April 2014

Eyes wide open

Great! So of the 90 24hrs free which my MBA and would-be job decide to gift me, I chose this 3amish 11th hour to wonder, how come I never had a blogger app!! Well it definitely too…

AbstractLife DiaryPhilosophical Me
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24 March 2014

MBA happened

I always wondered what happened to people who suddenly stopped blogging and used to post a once-out-of-blue post about regretting not able to blog and blah blah. Well, I just seeme…

AbstractLatestMBA Life
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31 August 2013

Pure Personal

Dear Blog So, if I am not home this time next year, as it turns out to be, it will be a decade of Birthdays away from home. Bad! This again proves, turning into an adult was a bad …

Kolkata DiaryLife DiaryPersonal
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29 August 2013

Freedom

So August is coming to an end. A month which I can relate with the month of that sure shot, highly awaited, mid of the year, mid of the month holiday (also GrandPa's B Day!). This …

AbstractLife Diary
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27 July 2013

Life

Fear is not a bad thing.. It tells future better than any astrology ring.. But how would have I known?  I grew up reading the TOI columns, which somehow just never made good s…

AbstractdifferentIn General
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9 April 2013

Oh! MBA

Life has taken a big turn upside down. And it still feels dizzy inside (how I just hate roller coasters!) Let me be honest and simply accept this - I had always prepared to get int…

IIFTLife DiaryMBA Life
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29 December 2012

A Poem Sans Sense

Neither the past nor the future.. the bliss is here in the present.. sayeth so all the wise men.. but none explained how to make it happen.. If memories did not exist.. wouldn't th…

Life Diarymemories
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5 November 2012

Before and After

Flash Back Book in hand, pleasant early November breeze and time to enjoy it all. Back to the present Book in hand, exams nearing.. time to enjoy not just the good old No…

AbstractPersonal
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13 September 2012

Mid week market watch

The Wednesday turned out to be more than just another day as the German constitutional court    gives its nod to the much awaited new Europe's bailout & the good news…

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30 August 2012

From Sleepless to Bliss

This part of my life is called Sleepless. Never before could I have related the gloomy signs of the Indian Economy with the gloomy dark circles around the sleepy-puffy-drunk-lookin…

IIFTMBA Life
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8 July 2012

iCould

I could have blogged about the drastic changes happening around me. The sudden mail (not actually, as I was all finger-biting-anxiously-waiting for it), the great experience I then…

IIFTKolkata DiaryMBA Life
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4 July 2012

Article Analysis - 1

The Libor Saga – Another blow to finance’s reputation. (An Analysis of Business Standard Opinion – 5th July 2012) Records continue to break but finance continues to be a bad game. …

Finance FundasMy TakePrep
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14 June 2012

That simple?

AbstractWords not enough
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6 June 2012

This June reminds me..

They say, as a kid we all have that one nightmare we remember. I am not sure if this goes true for sweet dreams too but this post is about one I had when I was small. As a kid we s…

AbstractLife DiaryPersonal
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27 May 2012

Yet another review

Continuing with the Indian Author spree, I now completed the Banking Trilogy by Ravi Subramanian. I wonder if trilogy is actually the word here coz' I felt I was reading the same b…

BookMy TakeReview
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10 May 2012

My spanish class assignment ;)

Tú eres mi parte, me nunca puede dejar aparte.. Tú eres el alma, que hace que mi corazón la calma.. Tú eres el fuego, que enciende mi deseo.. Usted es el éxtasis, un plan hermoso d…

LearningSpanish
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25 April 2012

Tengo una tercera lengua

No this post & blog remain to be in English and the post title is in Spanish. As the confusion of my MBA Plans continue with 'The' B School following my confusions my way, puts…

LearningSpanish
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27 March 2012

You call that a game?

Watched "The Hunger Games" this weekend. Would have never watched it at home or after reading about its plot, but went ahead to watch it, as friends planned it just 30 mins before …

My TakeReview
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10 March 2012

Just Read!

It seems like I am on an Indian-Authors-Only reading spree. Almost finishing "Chankya's Chant" & knowing about him I can now say, I belong not only to the land of great mathema…

In GeneralMy TakeReview
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28 February 2012

Look before you Enter?

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In GeneralMy TakeThink Tech
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31 January 2012

The different rules of Planet Mars & Venus

Excerpts from the Transcript of the speech Sheryl Sandberg, the current COO, FB gave in her commencement speech to Barnard Class of 2011. The next step is you’re going to have to b…

CCPCorporate LifeSelf MOtivation
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10 January 2012

God save the Dork

So instead of updating my blog, I found myself laughing while reading the most perfect & apt book one can finish while sitting in an office cubicle! (that is of course when ton…

BookFunnyMy Take
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3 January 2012

Happy New Yeary!

A lot happens again. I get a new laptop. I inch closer towards at least one 'Indian Institute' (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade here!) & well, a whole new though not much eve…

LatestMy TakeSelf Pat
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11 December 2011

Faith or Fake?

Watch this Video.It is one of the shortlisted entries in a Times Of India organized competition back this year - A day in the life of India , that as the name suggests, collected p…

My TakeWierd
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30 November 2011

Reconnecting People

So nothing lasts forever.Neither highs nor the lows.However getting up from its recent low seems to be a little difficult for Nokia.Or does it? From being  world's largest sma…

My TakeReviewThink Tech
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14 November 2011

C - Day Brief

Long time no see.October literally runs outta my blog post list as I gave my 4th & last attempt of CAT . I would have never given it, thanks to the almost nil amount of motivat…

PrepReviewSelf MOtivation
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28 September 2011

Shiva Trilogy - Part 2

As the Shiva trilogy goes on, Amish continues to weave the magic of mixing the fiction with his words.The story of the great Mahadev takes further turns as he discovers not only ne…

My TakeReview
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21 September 2011

Gratitude

Alok was too lost in his thoughts & may be that is why he didn't notice that his flight was about to land.It was only when the otherwise noticeable Air hostess asked him to tie…

AbstractPhilosophical Me
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19 September 2011

Among the good reads

I just completed an Indian fiction "The Immortals of Meluha" - the book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy series by Amish & the first thing I did after completing it was ordering the book…

My TakeReview
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13 September 2011

A Sunday well spent

[Edited] Since the last post a lot has happened! I have turned a year older, gave my big exam, have traveled to my family & met people who have again made me introspect what am…

TravelogueWords not enough
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30 August 2011

& I thought strategies are taught only in B-Schools!

In any B-School Interview, one of the most asked question remains "Why MBA?" Interestingly enough, as it seems even the interviewers, on the other side of the panel would like to k…

My TakeWords not enough
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9 August 2011

What's Next ?

Things gradually change & before we realize it, they become the new in-things & few are history already.A friend recently updated on FB that "We are the generation who pref…

LatestLearningReview
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30 July 2011

Rescheduling

The previous post couldn't be more misleading.With 8 days away from GMAT & almost 1.5 months still away from my next home visit after months, the word vacation seems nowhere ne…

CCPPrep
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18 July 2011

I am coming Soon!

Vacation Source : http://www.zadan.nl/pics/weallneed/wealldo.jpg

Words not enough
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3 July 2011

Two years later

It has been 2 years now that am no more a college grad but a full time working professional. This would have been hardly anything to ponder about, forget about writing, when a frie…

Life DiarymemoriesSelf MOtivation
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23 June 2011

Look who is moving !

So one day I return a little early from office and it is not the usual hot Hyderabadi Summer, but a pleasant 'here-comes-the-monsoon' windy evening and what I find is a moving ston…

LatestPersonalWords not enough
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17 June 2011

Tee - Week !

Disclaimer : Writer's go through a writer's bloc, a period in their writing life in which they loose ability to produce new work.Do we have something opposite to it too ? Writer's …

Abstract
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14 June 2011

Seedhi baat, baaki sab bakwas !

This is how a Blog looks like when ~ 1. The rate at which people are getting married/ getting in B- Schools (specially the highly-idiotic crowd who doesn't even know why they are f…

LatestPersonal
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31 May 2011

India Talks - 2

The recovered US Markets seem to be promising as ever before, however what they can not neglect are large growing economies or as we would like to believe ignoring the 'b…

Finance Fundas
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28 May 2011

India Talks - 1

This man needs no introduction.Simple & smart are the words which go for him as shows his latest advice on his really popular  FB page  : "Above all stick w…

Finance Fundas
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18 May 2011

Idioms - 2

Continuing the Idioms Post ... Case :1. I came across this Question with the 2 closest possible choices I had narrowed down to : The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived…

Idiom
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14 May 2011

High Up

So Blogger is back to work after 2 bad days & so is my Internet connection which has now officially joined my basic 'roti kapda & makaan' amenities list (lucky me to write …

In GeneralMy Take
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1 May 2011

Food for thought.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient…

Abstract
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28 April 2011

Survival of the fittest

When Charles Darwin used this term (it was actually coined by Herbert Spencer though), explaining nature's evolution from a single-celled Amoeba to such a highly complex species ca…

AWACorporate LifeMy Take
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28 April 2011

Life Ho to Aisi ?

So 'My Galaxy' never talked so much of sense as it had been doing in my recent last few posts ! Anyway came across this quiz during one of those days where you Work-From-Home &…

differentSummers
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19 April 2011

How the Pulitzer this year reminds of Animal Farm

Politics, it seems like, is one of those few things which hardly changes irrespective of the era, location or any civilization.It remains the same & carries with itself the sam…

LearningMy Take
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14 April 2011

Who is it Next ?

Internal or external, younger or older, Indian or an outsider, these are some of the choices infront of the committees formed by the Tata Group as well as the IT giant Infosys…

Review
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13 April 2011

Idioms - 1

As a part of GMAT SC preparations, am starting a kind of Super Week (Yep inspired from those silly ZooZoos & also someone's idea ! ) to jot down the basic Idioms, specially hel…

Idiom
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5 April 2011

Experience maketh a leader

You may be a child prodigy, you might have a great direction to focus & develop your thoughts, with a very fulfilling education or might be a holder of an attractive degree fro…

AbstractAWA
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3 April 2011

Sweetest Victory

So India wins the ICC World Cup 2011, & Indians get to party the whole saturday night as the complete nation celebrates the Cup being brought back home again after big 28 years…

My TakeSporty Mode
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28 March 2011

As the game goes on..

I was absolutely wrong in my previous post when the world cup had just started, but don't you sometimes just think a wrong thing happens though you wish it happens the other way ro…

Sporty Mode
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22 March 2011

Long time no read !

Spoiler Alert ! The best way to spend a work-from-home lazy Monday is to complete a good book & here I was done with Aravind Adiga's debut & Man Booker Prize winn…

Review
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21 March 2011

Moral Policing - The Censorship Issue

Just like what a person reads reflects the taste of a person, & to a considerable extent of what he/she is like, similarly the social media of a country, especially the Te…

AWA
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23 February 2011

To 'De Ghuma Ke' or Not !

We are already very much into World Cup 2011 but there hardly seems to be much enthusiasm about it anywhere around me except the initial opening ceremony & all the 1st day fuzz…

My TakeSporty Mode
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6 February 2011

It is Feb already !

Here it goes, a beautiful write up from Paulo Coelho's Blog . Read the book 3/4 years back, so good to re-read these lines again, wouldn't have made as much sense as they do now. I…

CCP
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17 January 2011

Happy New Year ?

Dear 2011, I knew you were going to be the difficult one.I mean, especially after the beautiful & dreamy (bed of roses & little thorny) 2009 & 2010, you had to be a pra…

AbstractIn GeneralSelf MOtivation
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31 December 2010

Rapid Fire 2010

Fun, lies & Adventure.. His Mom knows it too Moment ! Traveling Places..< including IIM C > Hating Job & Searching Job.. Listening to your Heart & fighting to sti…

AbstractLife Diary
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24 November 2010

A short Affair

This so sums up my 3 year stint with CAT  : There are definitely better things in life to fall for.I ain't so naive now as I was 3 years back.Time Changes, People Change, &amp…

Life DiarySelf MOtivation
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20 October 2010

This Day That Year !

I always wondered, why do newspaper even have to put such a column every day, may be just to ostentate their old glory & heritage, as they say, like TOI even once boasting abou…

Life Diarymemories
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31 August 2010

The Story so far

From clicking the scenic lakes & royal palaces at Udaipur while eating home cooked-mommie made bestest food & enjoying every bit of the deary-home's as always wonderful vis…

Life DiaryTravelogue
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12 July 2010

1 year + & 4.0 Beta :P

Been there & done that.Being over 1 year at IT just made me realize how I have learnt the rules of the game.So here I am, sitting in my office, on one of those days when Manage…

LatestThink Tech
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30 June 2010

My favourite June

I have backspaced, I have drafted my posts & have done all that could be on my blogger.com page except posting a new post.A lot has happened over 1 month & I still have to …

AbstractLife Diary
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15 May 2010

Pondmates

You stay protected in your small pond.You face your own set of difficulties, you overcome them, you move on. You say this is life.You have your own known set of people around you -…

Corporate LifeLatest
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5 May 2010

Happy Hours :)

Everybody gets their share of happy hour.Star World gets it & so do we, even if we are here at Cal. So one fine day, on a Sunday evening, after doing nothing for almost the com…

Kolkata Diary
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22 April 2010

From the eyes of beholder !

I remember when I was learning to swim, years back..& we had our turn to swim without any float after too many of those with-the-float practices.. I soo hated my trainer.It was…

In GeneralKolkata Diary
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24 March 2010

Fingers Crossed

There are many moments in life which change your life's course.. forever. Your track changes before you realize the difference of what you anticipated & where you landed.Think …

AbstractPhilosophical Me
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10 February 2010

Oh ! Calcutta

Mood: Just another day, when I was caught thinking about this highly productive city with simply superb infrastructure..[Gosh ! I had nothing better to do, for a change :P] Snapsho…

AbstractKolkata DiaryMy Take
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2 February 2010

Interes'IT'ng Day at Work !

Work seldom gets interesting.But 'it' gets so even after you try hard to make it look bad.Everyone gets a chance & every dog has 'its' day & so does 'it' has.Lets accept 'it'.Yes '…

Kolkata DiaryLife Diary
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29 January 2010

PhotoGenic Chap !

CCPWords not enough
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21 January 2010

PicTurE DiArY !

My Twenty Ten Sundays are tunrning out to be more than just eventful ! 3rd January 2010 : St Xaviers, Mumbai. 10th January 2010 : IIM C, Kolkata. 17th January 2010 : :) 24th Januar…

LatestWords not enough
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10 January 2010

Out of 'K(no)w'-where !

oops ! now add to it.. A Little more P A T I E N C E A Little more H O P E A Little more Building C A S T L E S _ I N _ A I R A little more of that (D)ILlogical F A I T H = you get…

Self MOtivation
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8 January 2010

Back to Reality

It is all over the newspapers, we see it happening around, we see it in our own lives usually when we find ourselves in one of those of our 'regret modes' . Sab chalta hai - the we…

Kolkata DiaryLearning
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30 December 2009

Home Coming

Sun peeps into the window as I wake up after a peaceful, beautiful sleep I had since ages (considering it takes Sun a lot more time to peep in among the high rises around & it is w…

Life DiaryPersonal
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21 December 2009

Gracias a la Vida

Open the gate & kick it out.That is what is done every year in December when finally it is Sis's B day (which happens to be today) & it is time for Mommy-made Yummy Cake [& am not …

In GeneralKolkata Diarymemories
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2 December 2009

Office Diary

The system clock displayed 4:59 PM.It is already turning dark outside & still 1 hour to go back.Checked my Gmail inbox, the mail count didn't seem to increase much today,confirming…

Kolkata Diary
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26 October 2009

Once Upon a Time

Those were the good old days of 'My galaxy' when I just wanted to post anything,just for the sake of updating it..it didn't matter if the lines hardly made any sense,mattered to an…

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4 October 2009

One Life..Live it !

Things are improving.Time does that. I no longer need to log on to Wikimapia every time I hear about some landmark in Kolkata & calculate the distance & time to reach it. I now und…

Kolkata Diary
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22 September 2009

Book Gyan - 1

There was a time when I read a couple of similar books all at once, back to back & understood them & loved them.Now I realize, they meant more then what I understood.Previously it …

AbstractCCP
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12 September 2009

My Birthday Gift.

2 months & 2 new metros to live in far from home.. & damn I now know why they say answer your interviews seriously coz' I had no idea then, that when exactly an year back as I boas…

LearningLife Diary
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21 August 2009

To Sum Up

& I know why 'Everyone loves Calvin !'.He sums it all perfectly..

Words not enough
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20 July 2009

Transitions & Blah blah !

Two weeks into my first job & the last Cya Mumbai titled post already sounds like 'cya My galaxy'! Things seem to change pretty fast as life forces you to grow up & out of your com…

LearningLife Diary
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30 June 2009

Cya मुंबई :)

Wonder how a city keeps evolving & grows beautiful .

Latest
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2 June 2009

Nostalgic Moments

I still remember.. how 4 years ago,sitting in the same place in front of my home PC I refreshed my then would-be College website(problematic thingy then!)..for admission & stuff. 4…

memories
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1 June 2009

New Beginning

Don't ask me time,it keeps changing & so does life with its never ending uncertainties.. India gets the much deserved change & hence a refreshingly new,young dynamic government.And…

Review
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26 May 2009

:D

Lolz :D

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11 May 2009

It is May 09

Two days to go & it will be the final good bye to one of the most moulding places of our life,the graduating college.. more influencing than what we realize now.Changes are hard to…

memoriesMy Take
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25 April 2009

The First Shower

That scorching heat in those fun filled lazy summer afternoon suddenly finds itself welcoming a breezy wind with a sigh which smells of that wonderful promise of a much awaited sho…

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16 April 2009

Crazy World

A lot of Weird things are happening around me ! ~ People around me no more complain of missing newspapers & I just missed few shoe throwing stories last week ! (confessing it all i…

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26 March 2009

Wise & Wiser

Here it goes.The second & the last experience of season I.Short & precise & will try to be sweet ! WIMWI is beautiful.You got to see those "Red-Brick-Walls" to understand the passi…

LearningReview
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11 March 2009

Happy Wishing !

Read it in a Paulo Coelho Book,The Valkyries to be precise:You must be very careful of what you desire,coz you never know when some angel listens to your wish,as in over hears it &…

Abstract
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5 March 2009

Social Networking ? Add me !

Blogging,Twittering,Orkutting & the list continues with the re-activation of my Facebook account lately.Experimenting is the word.Digital life is what we(most of us, Okay to be mor…

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2 March 2009

Simply the Best

Yeah Hobbes, you tried your best to help (err.. un~help ) Calvin :D

Words not enough
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24 February 2009

Thank You

"Don't Mind, I am known for my nasty sense of Humour",& he was back into his typical roaring laughter.I,of course,was taken aback.I mean, meeting some one only for the second time,…

memories
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18 February 2009

IMT G ~ GD PI Exp

I so ever wanted to write such a post ! Read at your own risk ;) Venue : Daly College Business School Indore 16th Feb '09,8:30 am slot,A Pleasant morning ! Reached at 8:10 am,strol…

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8 February 2009

February Wisdom <3

Little learning & the Net Unavailability at hostel maketh a blog sensible by "Slow Blogging".Read this term somewhere which works behind the funda that slower blogging improves a b…

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23 January 2009

Experienced !

Its like any other game, lets say Basket Ball for that matter. You keep on analysing,planning out your own strategies,identifying strong & weak areas, working on them suitably and …

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21 January 2009

Its Obama Everywhere

As the world watched in awe,the 44th US president took his vows & creates history of being the 1st American-African President of the oldest democracy.The way media puts it,Great Ex…

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7 January 2009

Spell "Disaster"

It couldn't have been worse.With India's 4th largest software exporter, Satyam Computers all over in news for all the wrong reasons,2009 turns out to be a bad start for Indian IT i…

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29 December 2008

Bidding adieu

At a year end. A year ago,the speculations of IBM taking over Satyam computers wouldn't have made me jump up from my chair.I can actually relate to this 'Great Indian IT industry' …

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22 December 2008

being in 20s - Something

This is a direct Cut Copy Paste from a source I can't remember, found it in my draft & posting it now, seems to be too apt now as waiting for so many results drives me nuts..! It i…

In General
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8 December 2008

Just In random

~ I hate IT jobs even before working in one. ~ College is turning scarier. ~ Countdown Stats: 134 almost..(Man!! will complete my engineering then..!)& I will be the happiest perso…

AbstractPersonal
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25 November 2008

The Truth, Tooth & Trouble

Wisdom teeth, or third molars, are the last teeth to develop and appear in the mouth. They are called "wisdom teeth" because they usually appear during a person's late teens or ear…

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21 November 2008

Smile :)

A Smile can turn you beautiful, so what is it that made you beautiful today ? (with no specific order) ~ A phone call from a long lost friend. ~ Words of appreciation from your par…

AbstractIn General
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19 November 2008

Book Break

There are times when you are actually behind a good book & at times it is the book which finds you.Better if it is the latter case as you are well assured that you won't be disappo…

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17 November 2008

The day after D Day

After the overall JEE 05 ordeal , there was just a thing I was sure of, am never gonna give another huge thing called CAT but life as usual has her own plans.Courtesy, the IT jobs …

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8 November 2008

Wake me up when...

Lotsa History creating epochal moments lately... US gets its 1st Black president meanwhile India reaches a step closer to Moon, & here I am busy sharpening my pencils...some one is…

AbstractLife Diary
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26 October 2008

Life's beautiful

Thursday 10 pm: Sob Sob..2/5 mid term papers done, everyone is running away to home tomorrow,me too on sunday, as finally Diwali breaks come to my rescue..but wait what is happenin…

Life DiaryTravelogue
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16 October 2008

Did I say 'H i g h A l e r t" ?

Status: ~ 1 month for the D-Day, 'ailurophobic' already..!! ~ 1 week for Mid sems, photostats are already piling,while its time for the insomniac in me to take a break as the sleep…

AbstractSelf MOtivation
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8 October 2008

Get a Break

Lotsa quoting & less writing makes a blog look more like a quote book..! -Galaxian (Lolz) Got a break, a badly needed one,listened to a lot of FM (was actually bored of hearing thi…

In GeneralMy Take
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2 October 2008

Gotta throw the dice, to get a six...!!

" Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows.It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there perm…

Self MOtivation
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24 September 2008

Chrome Powered

Besides being blazing swift,smart looking & intelligent (yes, its the browser am talking about..!). it seems to have some good humor too..

Think Tech
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23 September 2008

Its Okey !

Excerpts from Luke Kenny's Interview (& agreed upon by me) Its all right to ~Listen to any kind of music and not have to worry about peers and their choices. All those people who e…

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