Barefoot to Goa is an indie film written, directed and co-produced by a Mumbai-based filmmaker named Praveen Morchhale. Morchhale’s debut film, Barefoot to Goa was in competition at the 2013 Mumbai Film Festival. On the face of it, Morchhale’s film is a tale of two siblings, an eleven year old brother and his nine year […]

The steep loss incurred by Jet Airway’s, India’s second largest airline by passengers carried, for the September 2013 quarter, only reflects the poor state of the Indian Airline industry. While this loss was the airlines steepest ever, the total consolidated loss stood at Rs 998.51 crore as its subsidiary, JetLite incurred a loss of Rs […]

Now that CAT is over… what next? After the mad prep for CAT and those long nights suddenly there is a vacuum to fill… what is the “best” use of that time and energy or even “any” use… Here are a few things I can think of. Pick your poison 1. If you have a […]

I believe that the most insignificant product in the recent years, due to the improvements in information access to aspirants, is B-school Rankings. What came out as an idea to provide the right information ranked on the basis of critical success factors for Univ and b-schools, worked well in an era of print-media revolution. People […]

I would like to compare Sales to Kung-fu – the martial art form from China. You can learn about it in a few days/weeks, but you spend a lifetime to perfect it through practice. It is sad that in India, the ways we think and act on sales function is pretty neolithic. Which means that […]

After you have provided all the opportunities that you could, the following are the pointers that should allow you to decide on whether or not to FIRE your sales manager – 1) He/She is not committed in designing new sales prospecting measures and work-ethic that will give the required results. The same kind of acceleration […]

To the man who was once the quickest to take 50 ODI wickets breaking Sir Dennis Lillee’s record & still is the quickest Indian to do so who has an unbeaten Test century at Lord’s Cricket Ground (a feat which even the “God” hasn’t been able to achieve in his 200-test career) having played just […]

“bhaiya side se chote rakhna…aur..mmm..upar se spiky kar dena” and the sound of snips ensues.I stare at the images in the mirrors put adjacent to each other which show my cranium from never seen before angles and i wonder “is this how i look from 6’o clock ?”. Visits to the barber shop have always […]

Indrahar Pass is located at an altitude of 14,250 feet and climbing it is by no means an easy task. The moment you breathe the fresh air of Mcleodganj, you feel the vibe of romance and adventure interwined together. We were 18 people who left from Delhi and only 7 finally made it to the […]

Life has its own sense of humour; I found it hard to laugh though when I was pick-pocketed at the Howrah Railway Terminus on the eve of my birthday. It was around 10 pm, I was standing in the ticket counter queue when I first noticed this peculiar man. A fellow in his late twenties, […]