I’m gonna blow this story wide open! Sorry. I had always wanted to start a news story with these words! Well, trying out something new. In my circles, I am known as “The Man with a stomach of steel”. Alright, I just made that up. But I like to explore eating joints that are, to […]

After I took over Human Resources in my company (and I work for an investment bank so that happens to be a to-join company for many) I realised how many placement committees think it is easy to take recruiters out for a ride. Oh, the horror. Let’s take an example. XYZ University is a well-known […]

The recent controversy surrounding the Decision Review System (DRS) technology during the first test of the Ashes 2013 series made me think about the future of the game. Not many debated that it was a howler of a decision by Aleem Dar to not give Stuart Broad out and it is the much espoused ‘human […]

A dark drama. As an audience you would leave with a grimace on your as if someone had kicked your balls. Ajay Bahl does not leave anything to imagination; he is blunt and never waits for a second invitation to showcase his raw take on cinematography and direction. Shadab Kamal(as Mukesh) delivers a masterpiece, Shilpa […]

As I followed the match of India A’s tour to South Africa on Monday, things simply kept going from real to surreal. Heck, 248 in a 50-over match is stupendous. Back in the days, 248 was a total which any team would have been content with, but now a single individual is scoring those many […]

“Everything I learned, I learned from the movies.” ― Audrey Hepburn Believe it or not, I identify with this as do many more like me. Movies have taught me a hell of a lot. Throughout college, I watched a lot of English movies and considering that it’s not my mother tongue, movies improved my English […]

The most important strategy in solving data interpretation questions in the IIFT entrance test is the Approximation technique. Let’s work with an example one is likely to come across: 1617/1760. Here you should think of approximation, what one will do is reduce the numerator to 1600 and increase the denominator to 1800. And hence the […]

Fibonacci numbers or Fibonacci series or Fibonacci sequence, named after Leonardo Fibonacci, are the numbers in the following sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…. By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. […]

Disclaimer: Here is an amateur attempt to share my understanding regarding various Distributions in Permutations and Combinations. In case you find any errors/loopholes, please let me know. With respect to Distribution questions in Permutation and Combinations, most of the question types can be grouped under the following categories, 1. Distribution of Similar Objects to Similar […]

Many of us live through life harboring a secret desire to write something and have people read and possibly appreciate it. If writing is not what we do for a living, then blogging, Facebook and Twitter provide transitory relief, but they come with riders. With blogging, there is the problem of reach, Facebook fatigue has […]