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I really liked Star Sports’ 2018 IPL anthem, by Ogilvy. It used the famous song from Naya Daur, “Yeh Desh Hai Veer Jawanon Ka” (music by O.P. Nayyar). It was recreated by Rajiv V Bhalla and sung by Sidharth Basrur. What is…
This is a rather surprising piece of communication from Voltas Beko. I missed it when it was launched first late last year (though I remember seeing the full-page, front-page ads in The Times of India and the chatter around the ‘tested by…
Our air conditioner’s stabilizer conked off recently. When I got the local electrician to check why the a/c wasn’t working, he figured that it was the stabilizer and that we need to change it. I asked him if he could get a…
One year without full-time employment! Wow! The first year to not live based on the city’s rhythms of when one should wake up, drive to work, go to gym etc. I get to choose when I want to do them. The first…
Liam Wildish is my hero! Who Liam Wildish, you ask? Liam is a 21-year-old from Retford, Nottinghamshire. He runs a window cleaning business called . One way he promotes his services to win new business is to go around cleaning road/street signs…
That headline is an exaggeration/creative liberty… to make a point. Read on, for the point 🙂 Tata Sky’s official handle on Twitter makes for an interesting note. At the surface, the handle and its activities seem normal enough. Tons and tons of…
One persistent thread I refer to in my workshops on personal branding is the decline of appointment-based content consumption vs. on-demand content consumption (and how it affects content consumption in general and how we, as individuals, can take advantage of this evolution…