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I had written about the Victorian Walk on M G Road by Bangalorewalks couple of years back. Last week I was invited for the trial run of their to-be launched ‘Basavanagudi Walk’. As expected the walk was interesting and informative, punctuated by some awesome food, traditional Bangalore stuff and lots of interesting trivia about Basavanagudi and Bangalore. If you have migrated to Bangalore in

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I had to read this book as a part of my professional requirement, to be able to talk about what the gurus of Innovation have to say in their latest book. The book obviously has been launched in various cities with the author’s tours, huge publicity on all kinds of media and through paid seminars. The book talks one major new concept, or rather I would say documents it in the form of a model

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Advanced Robotics Research Organization, a non-profit organization, has scheduled a workshop on Autonomous Robotics to be held in Bangalore from July 16th to July 20th, 2008. The workshop covers hands-on building and understanding of robotics. It also motivates students towards Robotics Research. The workshop is open to all engineering students from all branches as well as technical professionals

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Kuldip Nayar is one of the most prominent journalists that India has had. He is author several books, most of which are drawn from his experiences as journalist. This is the first and only book that I have read of his and it gives you an impression of someone who has lead an interesting life, having lived through the partition and doing stories around the people who more or less shaped the post

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If you have enough money in your pocket, all the wonders and attractions in the world will walk up to you and park themselves near you, so that you can visit them as and when you want, without having to go around the world and hop cities. Innovative film city is one such ambitious project that brings a lot of world attractions to India. It is a place that is aiming to be one stop shop for all

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The title of the book is interesting enough for you to pick up the book and try to get insights into the collective wisdom of crowds. The tag line says ‘Why the many are smarter than the few’. You immediately think you are going to get the answers to questions like: Are Crowds wiser than individuals? If yes, how and why? Are they always wiser or under certain circumstances? Is there a theory

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There are a lot of things that seem too big today and there are things that are beyond our imagination at this point in time. But a few generations from now, our descendents might peep into our imagination and smile, try to imagine the world as we inhabited it and may be do a subtle comparison in their subconscious. This Sunday, I along with 3 co-explorers had similar experience. We decided to do

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I had picked up this book sometime in 2006, and by now I had almost forgotten what made me buy this book. The reason I picked up this book to read is that recently I had a conversation with a friend who is shit scared to commit and I somehow thought of peeping into the male mind and gaze why do they run away from committing even when they actually want to. It is a book written by male authors

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Does the name Muddenahalli ring something in your mind; probably not. I was not aware of the existence of this place till the time I landed up there almost accidentally, while we were searching for something else. Muddenahalli is a small village located about 60 Kms north of Bangalore, right next to the Nandi Village after Nandi Hills. Muddenahalli is the village of Bharat Ratna Sir

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Dan Roam is someone who makes his living by drawing pictures. No, he is not a painter or an artist. But what he does is draw simple pictures for the corporate world, and helps them see their problems, situations in perspective using visual thinking. He narrates an interesting story of how he himself got inducted into visual thinking technique when forced to go and talk to a client about

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This book is a collection of some of the great speeches in India from 1857 onwards. The cover of the book has been interestingly designed with names of all those, whose speeches are a part of the book. Some of the names actually invite you to pickup the book and read. Book features some of the well known speeches like Nehru’s speech on 15th Aug, 1947, Nathuram Gadse’s speech at his trial,

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I was to land in Bangalore on 24th April morning 8:45 AM, and this turned out to be the exact date on which Bangalore’s new international airport was to be open its operations. To be honest I was sincerely hoping that I land at the old airport as old airport is hop. Skip and jump from my place. And the closer you were to the old Bangalore, the farther you are from the new airport in Devanahalli.

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While writing on retail, what attracted my attention recently is the mushrooming of the smallest format retail all over Bangalore. It is the ubiquitous Pani Puri stalls that have come up in last year or so. I used to miss good Gol Gappas in Bangalore and there were countable number of places in town where you could go and savor this delightful snack. But over last one year or so they have emerged

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My last post citing incidents from experiences across retail stores is the first post out of some 250 odd posts, where no one disagreed with me and people just kept adding their own experiences. Apart from comments at desicritics and on my blog, I also received a lot of e-mails and a few phone calls including one from a customer services head of one of the stores that I had mentioned in the post.

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Got it from one of the forwarded mails....:-)

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Medici effect refers to the creative environment created by the Medici banking family in Renaissance Italy in 16th Century. And the author gives insights into how to create that effect again and create spurts of innovation in your environment. Frans refers to this phenomenon as ‘Intersection’, you may refer to this term as ‘cross-pollination’ of ideas from various fields as well. So essentially

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There are some arguments for which both sides weigh equally. In my opinion the question that ‘should the fees for higher education institutes like IITs and IIMs be hiked or not’ is one such question where the arguments for both increasing and not increasing have the equal weight and you have a difficulty deciding which side you should be on. Those in favor of not increasing the fees are right

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This book is a very personal account of author’s relationship with world of books, both that he has read and those he has written. Books is a collection of 40 essays that he has written in various places about literature, books, book reviewers, critics, literary festivals and the role of literature in shaping up the society in general. He begins my talking about his childhood and his affair with

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As you travel across the city, or across cities in India, you can see the much predicted retail boom happening everywhere. There are shopping malls, supermarkets, hypermarkets and big format retail chains everywhere. Not sure how many people actually understand the difference between these terms, but the mantra is big format shopping space, a place where you have to go using a vehicle as it is

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This book was recommended by anyone who has read it, almost unanimously. The book is definitely different from the usual fiction written these days. It reminded me of the stories of survival that I used to read in Reader’s Digest as a kid. It’s just that this story was written in 300+ pages, and talks about sometimes believable and at times unbelievable incidents of survival and the twist at the

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This autobiography completes a small biographies shelf in my library. The book has been well designed to give and gives you a feeling that you are reading something special. There is a lot of Golden color used, both on the cover and inside in text and in pictures. There are beautiful pictures from Ravi’s all phases and tracks of life. It is edited and introduced by George Harrison, who considered

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There are very few books that you read and you know you will keep going back to them. This is one such book. Joseph Campbell is well known for his work in Myths and in comparative religion. In his research on Myths, he has studied most of the religions of the world and can present an interesting comparison. He is greatly influenced by eastern religions specifically Hinduism and Buddhism. He

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Over 80 people from various walks of life, most of whom did not know each other, walked into the colorful Mindtree office on a Saturday morning. Not many knew what to expect from the day ahead, but what connected them instantly was that all of them were bright and cheerful people, not scared of the ambiguity that the day brought in and ready to explore what was there. Well, now is that not

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Fireflies Ashram is located around 20 kms outside the city limits of Bangalore on Kanakpura road. The place has been designed for various ecological and social initiatives, but probably is best known for its annual music festival that it hosts under the majestic Pipal tree every year. This Saturday I attended the festival for the first time, though it had been taking place for last 4 years. I am

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If I have summarize this book in one sentence, it would be ‘A book written by a upper middle class Bangalorean, who has to drive through the traffic everyday, who happens to be a student and teacher of management, and he applies game theory to investigate the everyday behavior of Indians, and shares his random thoughts on just about everything that is wrong in India and adds the dash of Gita to

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