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15 January 2016

8 Habits of Lousy Listeners (How to Stop Being One)

Listening is a great skill. It’s not an inborn skill; good listeners actually put years of efforts and lots of patience to develop the skills into being a good listener. To be fair, many of us are awful at listening to others even though we don’t even realize it. So, how do you tell a […]

3 December 2013

Happiness is…

We often wonder what makes us happy or what happiness actually consists of. Turns out there are little things in our lives that bring happiness our way yet we fail to appreciate them. Here are some of those moments.

5 September 2013

Why I Will Never Buy from Tradus.com Again

I have purchased different products from their website thrice and gone through excruciating experience each time, thanks to their grotesque business model and flawed marketplace ecosystem. Here’s why you shouldn’t buy from Tradus.com either.

27 June 2013

Some of the Worst Indian Movies Ever

Bollywood has a pretty good history of bad movies. You can’t stop at a single-digit number. One way of including a lot of Indian movies as “worst movies” is to categorize them. Here are some of the categories and their sample movies that I have in my head right now.

11 April 2013

Why I Am Not Okay with The Status Quo

Remember it’s hard to challenge the status quo and change the way things are. It’s much simpler to just follow the societal norms as stated in the examples above. Being okay is a defeatist attitude. I refuse to conform to the status quo because I’m not okay with them. Because conformity, like greed and corruption, is a disease and I can’t allow it to affect me.

22 December 2012

Why There’s a Rapist in Everyone of Us

While there has been an emotional outrage about how the rapist should be hanged till death, I seriously think every responsible selfcentric male in our society with penchant to look down upon his female counterpart must hang his ego till death to start with, if they are trulely serious about allowing any positive change to usher in.

5 December 2012

What is It like Being a Start-up Founder?

Your start-up is always close to your heart despite how the world around you perceives it. You toil to help it grow, out of sheer love and affection. You can run through the fire to help it push forward to where it belongs. Ask any founder, and they would put their inherent satisfaction much above the money which comes with it incidentally.

12 October 2012

Friday Dressing is a Myth

When I was young, I’d look at the ads on magazines and draw my inspirations from them. The magazines like India Today and Outlook would carry ads of Raymond and Allen Solly which would mesmerize me. I’d always dream of leading a lifestyle that would enable me to wear sophisticated clothing. Thinking of those conjures […]

21 April 2012

Why Entrepreneurship is NOT always about the Bottom-line

I remember when I was a kid, my dad would run a mid-scale brick factory in the outskirt of our hometown. My dad was a hardcore communist by passion, and would always sympathize with the cause of the socially oppressed and financially challenged. He would hire day wage laborers to aid the process of brick […]

11 April 2012

How Long Will Our City Take to Reach NYC Standards?

I’m a big fan of Pete Cashmore @mashable. I happened to come across one of his tweets this morning, which shared some beautiful pics of Big Apple in #NYC’s Facebook contest. Some of the pics were so amazing that I gave in to my urge to share them on Facebook. In the next couple of […]

4 April 2012

I’m Married to My Passion

It’s been nearly a year and a half, I still look back at that magic moment when something told me inside to buy that camera.

13 March 2012

6 Vocabulary Errors That Might Embarrass You to Death

This is NOT exactly the kind of post I’d like to write, but I guess I MUST. Despite being passionate about the English language, I’m still far from being perfect with my English writing skills. However, I cringe whenever I find people mispronounce or misuse some very common words in English vocabulary, which actually brings […]

13 February 2012

Of Start-up Firms, Their Early Days and The Circle of Trust

Being ambitious comes with a price tag – this is what I’ve learned in the past few years since I entered the realm of building companies together with others. I have been a part of building two organizations – one for my past client and the other of my own. In both cases, I’ve learned […]

6 January 2012

Why Android Tablets Failed: A Postmortem Report

On the 20th of October, 2011, when I wrote a post on my experience of using the Samsung Galaxy 750 tablet, it drew rave reviews from various visitors to my blog. Some said I’m a noob and don’t know how to use a Samsung tablet properly yet. Some said I sound like a complete liar […]

29 November 2011

Things I Didn’t Like About PayPal

Back in 2006, I heard about PayPal for the first time and was pretty curious to know what it was all about. It turns out PayPal is nothing but a way to make payment or get paid over the Internet. In 2007, I created my own PayPal account and started using it for receiving small […]

16 September 2011

PayPal Auto Withdrawal and Receiving Limit : How to Get Around PayPal Issues

With PayPal imposing fresh restrictions on their Indian users, many small and medium scale web start-ups must be panicked and scouring for alternative solutions. Today, many Indian PayPal users must have received a very depressing email from PayPal on two more changes in the way we do business with PayPal. Here’s what the email says: […]

13 August 2011

Stranger in Moscow – The Journey (Irony) of Life

I have been reflecting on this track ever since I heard it back in 1997. There are times in your life when you feel all alone while the rest of the world seems to walk out on you. There are times in life when you feel the loneliest even as you’re surrounded by everybody & […]

13 July 2011

How to Get Over Unrequited Love in 5 Days

The title of this article is not designed to pull crowd or attract eyeballs. That can be done by resorting to some pornographic images or videos easily. This article is inspired by a real life experience. Have you ever had a crush on anyone leading to an obsessive affair only to end up in utter […]

15 May 2011

Where to Date a Girl in Bhubaneswar

Welcome to Bhubaneswar, the so-called Temple City is now home to scores of engineering colleges, management institutes and other vocational institutions. This effectively means you should no longer run short of potential dating partners. Ok, so you are new to the city, have already managed to find a potential date but don’t know where to […]

22 October 2010

20 Highest-paying Jobs in The United States Today

1. Anesthesiologist: These doctors play an integral role in keeping patients alive — and asleep — during surgery — no matter how long it may take. Their handsome paychecks reflect the responsibility and risk involved in their jobs. 2. General Surgeon: These surgeons are highly specialized and in high demand, performing surgery on the digestive […]

21 October 2010

Do You Have One of America’s 10 Least Stressful Jobs?

Feeling overworked and overwhelmed? Maybe it’s time for a career change to one of these 10 fields. 1. Biomedical Engineer: One would think developing products to detect cancer might make for a stressful environment, but many biomedical engineers embrace the fact that the tools they’re creating could save a life. Although busy, these pros also […]

10 October 2010

Crass Consumerism: A Medium of Mass Enslavement

Scores of books have been written on the consumer behavior theory. Whether it’s the conventional wisdom of marketing or modern views of contemporary economists, the evolving consumer behavior has been researched to establish the science behind consumer psychology and deconstruct the triggers that lead to consumers buying a product when they needed it the least. […]

1 September 2010

Why I Listen to Michael Jackson’s Songs: Cuz It’s Not Just Music

There is something about this man. Michael Jackson continues to inspire millions of people around the world. His enduring music is reminiscent of an era that stood witness to some of the greatest musical treatments of all times. I listen to his music the whole time. When I’m in love, his music takes me on a romantic […]

5 August 2010

Does Corruption Matter to You?

I belong to India and since I have been born and brought up here for 30 years, and given the Right to Speech being a citizen of this country, I will voice my angst whenever my country gets gang-raped by her own citizens. The Common Wealth Games is due in fewer than 60 days and […]

17 March 2010

Understanding Women – 5 Points Someone

If you’re a careerist, or someone who pays more attentions to success, and looking for a stable relationship, you might find socializing with female rather difficult. Here are a couple of elements that might put things in perspective while you delve into the female factor.