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The sheer irony is that the photo that started it all looks so serene and peaceful! This is how it started and degenerated, for the record. I noticed Navdha Dhingra’s tweet last evening. This one: I was curious why Lonely Planet India deleted…
Related, more recent read: Warning: This post has nothing to do with what I usually write – social media, digital marketing and communications – and is more about my other obsession: science fiction! While filling petrol yesterday morning, I noticed an interesting…
Imagine you have Shah Rukh Khan’s phone number. Landline number of his office or home, or his mobile number. You call him excitedly and you hit a voicemail. It’d say, “You have reached the voicemail of Shah Rukh Khan. I’m not able…
Noticed Xiaomi India head, Manu Kumar Jain, thanking people for the Diwali flash sale they conducted on November 3rd. This is what he said. Remembered that he had tweeted something similar earlier too. This. I’m genuinely intrigued. Can a mad rush and…
All India Bakchod has the notable distinction of mainstreaming the otherwise foul Hindi/Urdu word ‘Chod’ (The F word in Hindi/Urdu slang), so much that propah print publications and TV channels have no qualms in saying/using ‘Bakchod’ these days, in India. Last week,…
May I request you to bear with me while I describe something really stupid? Please? So I walk into a shop. It’s big, brightly light and very inviting. I see tons of things I need, at great prices. I pick up a…
Let us start with the eye witness account that everybody gladly took to be the gospel. Notice the way he says it is very common for people to try to jump the red signal. Now, read the following… a generous leap of…