Economy

The Holiday Calendar!

This year February 19 had a historic significance attached to it. America celebrated their annual holiday of Presidents Day. This day marks celebration of George Washington’s Day. While America, celebrated birthday of it’s founding father and first President, parts of India predominantly Maharashtra observed holiday to celebrate birthday of founder Read more…

By Chinmay Barhale, ago
Economy

Reforms and middle class

Over the weekend while having breakfast, we had a very healthy and constructive “debate” around performance of Modi Government. Arun Jaitely as finance minister had presented his 4th full budget. Wife was not happy as there were no benefits to “middle class”. It’s a popular perception has been Modi government Read more…

By Chinmay Barhale, ago
Cricket

Baffling BCCI

  Last couple of weeks have been very interesting in Indian cricket. Senior side lost test series 2 – 1 to South Africa, U19 side played some quality cricket to reach final of ICC U19 world cup (final would be played on Feb 3, hopefully this piece would be published Read more…

By Chinmay Barhale, ago
Football

Welcome Home Alexis!

Yesterday, much awaited and much publicized transfer of Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal to Manchester United completed. A lot has been said and written about why player chose to join red half of Manchester rather than blue half including how Alexis wanted to reunite with Pep Guardiola. The player and coach Read more…

By Chinmay Barhale, ago
Economy

Defining Success Criteria

I work as Software Engineer. That basically requires me to write (and debug) code day in day out. Every time when a new project starts, we get what’s called as “Business Requirement Document” aka BRD. This BRD has lot of details about what business wants from this project. It also Read more…

By Chinmay Barhale, ago