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Father to two daughters. A 'madrasi', from Bombay. Peripatetic. Right now live in Gurugram. Automobile Engineer. Sales & Marketing professional, working with Ford. www.linkedin.com/in/kaushikprasad Want to be a writer and lotsa kilos lighter. Views expressed are personal.
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Going Viral
Simon Weckert, an artist, borrowed phones from friends, until he had 99 devices, these he piled onto a little red wagon. Over the course of a day, he walked up and down a random street, towing his smartphone-packed wagon behind… Read More ›
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Lessons in Consumer Behavior from a Rajni film.
The crowd was growing impatient, waiting for the doors to open. The hands seemed to be plodding wearily across the clock face. Finally, the usher throws open the doors, and people hurry to their seats. Soon, the theatre is full,… Read More ›
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Eighteenth Century FOMO
In eighteenth-century Europe, potatoes were considered a leprosy inducing invention of the devil and this belief was particularly pernicious in France, so no one ate them. The humble tuber might not have attained its preeminent status in European cuisine, if… Read More ›
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The perils of the Piyush Pandey we think is hidden inside us.
Harry Baals – and, yes, it is pronounced as “Balls”, remember this, it is important to the story – was the mayor of Fort Wayne from 1932 to 1947 and again from 1951 until his demise in 1954. During his… Read More ›
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Onoda’s War
Walking into the office get-together, you scan your eyes around the room, wave to a colleague standing by the bar, return a smile to another smoking in a corner. You pick up a beer and walk across to a bunch… Read More ›
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What headphone personality type are you?
Walk into any airport and you will be surprised with the number of people wearing headphones. That number seems to have increased in recent years. Perhaps airports are getting increasingly noisier and crowded and as humans, we want to carve… Read More ›
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Connected Cars may be today’s VCR players.
Understanding human attitudes to technology is probably as important as all the technical efforts made for connected cars.
