Brazil, Pele and football comprised the thrilling peaks of my childhood in football-crazy Bengal. Gods were evoked in religious ceremonies…
Planning the day?s activities is quite unlike structuring the need of each of your working hours.
An 86-year-old Englishman sitting adjacent to me on our flight to London last week turned to me and said, ?You…
Every milkman mixes water in the milk the good cow gives. This anecdotal example sets the ambiguous doubt-confidence paradox we…
In nearly 300 years of invention, failure and fine-tuning, the brand has put in place some real value in products…
Continuing Brand Friendship from my last week?s column, I?ve termed it industry-customer social relationship that?s beyond mere transactional business sales
Religion, it can be argued, is the origin of branding. All religions had intangible ideology but they created physical manifestation…
The first time I arrived at Rue de la Glaciere in Paris, 13th district, crossing an old, open metro bridge
A chilly wind was caressing the skin on our faces under the clean Italian winter sky of Venice. My wife…
The resemblance between staple food and mobile phones that I wrote about last week spells a red danger signal for…
?Electra telephono! Dmitri telephono! Theodore telephono!? These were costly international calls. They used to come to the only general land…
?Jhanjat (mess)!? is how Akash, a 35-year-old Delhiite, described his family-living composition.
Through history, product design passed the mechanical, electrical and electronic eras where big inventions were accompanied by big hype
Hi-funda pepper and salt: Let me now recount other tasty pepper and salt effects.
India, the world?s most populous democracy, never converges to nation building.
Five o?clock in the morning. Driving to Bangalore airport with colleagues…
?How do you differentiate between an Indian joint family and extended nuclear family when both family units have the grandparents…
Death from racism is even more painfully shameful in a heterogeneous country like India.
