I have had glue stick rolling on my work desk and falling down. I have lost the glue stick’s cap. I have smudged it while trying to cover a rounded corner of an envelope. I *always* get at least a drop of…

Schweppes, from the Coca-Cola Group, changed its bottle and label design a couple of years ago, around the globe. After the design change, it seems people were having great difficulty in differentiating between soda water and tonic water! Yes, I know that…

UPDATE, 2024: Here are the ads by John Lewis for the years 2023, 2022 (there is context to this!), 2021, 2020, and 2019. 2024: The 2nd ad by Saatchi & Saatchi. 2023: This is the first ad by John Lewis’ new agency,…

3 months ago, I wrote about RRoyal Rajasthan, a restaurant on Sarjapur Road (Bangalore) and how the restaurant’s owner used Zomato to have a go at customers who don’t have charitable things to say about his restaurant (see my post ). — It…

Bangalore-Delhi-Bangalore day flights are tiresome. By the time you are at the end of your wits and patience, the pilot announces that we have one more hour to reach Delhi, much to our groans. I had to take one for a meeting…

You may have seen someone share the new Christmas advertisement video by Iceland (the British frozen foods supermarket chain; not the Nordic island). Unlike the sole call-to-action for any video shared on a social media platform (the call-to-action, first, is usually, ‘play’…