I see them almost every night near the Bandra end of Bandra-Worli Sealink. I call them the speedsters. The guys on bikes who ride as if there was no tomorrow. A huge group, some with bandanas across their forehead, others with lose transparent shirts atop colourful singlets, but sadly none with helmets. At about 11.00 […]

The Xavier Aptitude Test (2014) paper will have a few minor changes. To begin with, GK will be made part of the main test and not a separate paper like last year, when it was introduced. This also means that the main test which was of a 2 hours and 20 minutes duration last year […]

Here we have a talk with Benny Joseph, a recent graduate of Chicago Booth and SoFi entrepreneur who heads the startup GoodApril, an awesome site that will help you save money while filing your taxes. In this post Benny talks about his experience at Booth and offers fantastic advice for incoming Booth students or those […]

IIM Ahmedabad (Photo: Kunjan Detroja) The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has altered its selection criteria for admissions to the PGP batch of 2014-16. From each of five academic disciplines covering the arts, commerce, medicine, science and engineering defined by IIM-A (more here, see Table 2) the top 50 or 1% (whichever is lower) […]

Come September, and Bandra, traditionally the Queen of Mumbai’s suburbs, takes on a different hue. The 300-year old Bandra Fair descends on this suburb, once known for its pretty bungalows. The fair simply means, 8-15 days of lots of merry-making, streets filled with eateries, shopping and giant wheels. It also means lakhs of people descending […]

Those days, dance was a form to be appreciated in films, television or theatre perhaps. These days it is just a next-door thing with so many dance classes mushrooming everywhere. Today anybody can dance and dance teachers love it – for Rs 3-6,000 a month, they are a lucrative business too. But it is not […]

(Photo: Ben Husmann) An increasing number of cases of management institutes refusing refunds are coming to light this year. This time, seven students who withdrew admission to T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal, say that the institute has refunded only 11% of the total fees paid up and is refusing to part with more. […]

I am not surprised that image-searching ‘mumbai logo’ on Google fetches more of the Mumbai Indians cricket team logo and hardly any of the official Mumbai logo that the city’s municipality released three months ago. This logo was originally intended to brand Mumbai in the same way ‘I The Mumbai logo fails my own test […]

Being a ghaas-phoos person in India is one thing but going bina-doodh is quite another. With no vegan restaurant anywhere, cooking without ghee or butter at home can get bothersome for families. It is hilarious visiting a specialised maas-machi restaurant and ordering vegan food. At one such famous fish do in Mumbai’s suburbs, the waiter […]

India is very keen about building modern metro rapid transit systems for its cities (three already have one, twelve more are planning to), but very few of those cities are thinking about planning convenient pedestrian access to their stations. As sound as the intent is to make urban commuters shun cars for fast and comfortable […]