Do your duty and engineer a…
January 23, 2019A couple of weeks ago, while I was in Delhi on work, I stayed at a hotel for 6 days. During the stay, one afternoon, as I walked out of my room, a lady—a hotel staff—in the corridor saw me and enquired…
Category: opinion
An imaginary surgical strike on piracy
January 21, 2019The Hindi film, Uri: The Surgical Strike, released on January 11, 2019. On Tuesday, the subsequent week (January 15, 2019), someone named Arin Mandal, from Kolkata, shared a video on his Facebook timeline. In the video he says that he tried downloading…
Is Koffee With Karan not brand-safe for Google anymore?
January 21, 2019Spot the difference(s). Well, there’s just one. Koffee With Google Home vs. Koffee Without Google Home! Did Google (Home) drop out of Koffee With Karan after the massive fallout from the Pandya-Rahul episode where the entire country over-reacted to thoughts expressed as…
Disguise-Fool-Reveal – but to what effect?
January 18, 2019I saw this video featuring badminton superstars Kidambi Srikanth and Ashwini Ponnappa with a lot of interest. The stars dress up as old people, manage to fool kids in a badminton academy with their disguise, and eventually start playing their true selves…
Tinda’s ‘Uber Eats moment’
January 14, 2019UPDATE – January 25, 2019: Uber Eats seems to have listened and understood the context for localizing this communication. Today’s Times of India city ‘Times’ editions have local equivalents of tinda for at least 3 cities – Kochi, Chennai and Kolkata. Bengaluru…
Huawei vs. Cathay Pacific
January 11, 2019News no. 1: News no. 2: What a contrast! The Cathay Pacific blunder is attributed to a glitch (I’m assuming it is not a human error), while the Huawei tweet was human error (though a very common error; blunder nonetheless). I don’t…
Space To Pray – a bold, contextual idea in Sri Lanka
January 10, 2019Given the dwindling sales of printed newspapers across the world (except in countries in India, of course), there is already a running joke on using newspapers for additional purposes besides reading news. So, using them to wrap things in shops, as a…