Entertainment
Till Death Do Us Part
For last week or so, I’ve been spending my “free” time, watching “The Crown” on Netflix. It’s an amazing TV series on reign of Queen Elizabeth. It’s one of the most expensive shows Netflix has produced costing around £5 Million for every episode (nearly $6.4 Million). TV shows has captured Read more…
Accidents
Text Responsibility
Year of 1966 saw 2 major changes in United Kingdom. First change was England team won Football (soccer) World Cup on home soil when Sir Geoff Hurst scored a hattrick in final. The second change was British parliament passed law pertaining to Drunk Driving. This road safety act limited alcohol Read more…
Football
Leadership Vacuum
For last couple of weeks football (aka soccer) news cycle belonged to Manchester City. During the week, city made headlines for all the wrong reasons when Football leaks exposed alleged behaviour by City hierarchy to balance the books. Then on Sunday (11 November) team outclassed Manchester United on pitch in Read more…
Education
Engineering and White Rice
Couple of weeks ago, a colleague (who seats in next cubicle) and I were having chat about career prospects in India. He joined the company last year as a campus graduate. He completed 4 year engineering course and got his Bachelor’s degree. Like most people from that age group, he Read more…
Economy
Digitize or Die
Over last few weeks, wife and I have been discussing if we should get Netflix subscription or not. We already have Amazon Prime membership. Today Netflix and Amazon are competing with each other online streaming market. About 15 years ago, Netflix had a different competitor, a company named Blockbuster. Chances Read more…
Holidays
Travel, travel and more travel…
Both my wife and I get 24 vacation days every year. It’s mandatory to use minimum 12 days out of those 24. If you don’t do that, good folks in Human Resources question employee’s manager about associate not taking time off. As a result, we try to have 2 trips Read more…
Economy
Nano Finance – The Next Big Opportunity?
This weekend, my wife and our maid a small argument. Our maid wanted a salary advance of INR 1,000 (about $15). Wife had paid her salary last week only, so she was curious about why maid needed the money. Apparently, maid had some emergency. Wife paid her advance amount. This Read more…
Football
Foot Drain
We Indians use a popular term called “Brain Drain” to describe a phenomenon about how talented minds left India to migrate to Western Hemisphere and made name for themselves. The reasons for migration is topic of separate post. But general consensus is they migrated due to lack opportunities. There are Read more…
Modi
Democracy in Danger
For Indian political parties “Democracy is in danger” is a very popular slogan these days. Honesty speaking, they’re absolutely right. India as a parliamentary democracy is facing a very unique challenge – there is no credible opposition. After 2014 General Elections, BJP is on a roll winning Assembly elections after Read more…