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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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Crime Master Gogo & the pre-GST shopping frenzy
In the rip roaring 1994 caper ‘Andaz Apna Apna’, Crime Master Gogo, steals each time he bumps into Robert and Bhalla. It simply didn’t matter to him that he was stealing a lowly bicycle, because as he says ‘aaya hoon… Read More ›
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Of Rivalry And Its End.
We are rivals. Our companies and our rivalry, centenarians in the land of our birth. But here, we are young. Jostling for space in a narrow sliver of a duopolistic market, like shoppers fighting to walk fast in the narrow… Read More ›
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Jallikattu is good…
Why the debate over Jallikattu is a good thing.
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Worlds “within”
It has been my desire, since long, to start a sentence with the word – apropos. So here goes. Apropos the news article that appeared in The Telegraph, Calcutta edition, dated 22 February 2014 there is a whole world captured… Read More ›
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Well, you don’t kindle my interest…almost.
Once upon a time, six months ago, I was gifted an eBook reader, oh, I how despise these new-fangled devices. Before you dismiss this as absolute drivel or dub me a Luddite, allow me to explain myself. While in school,… Read More ›
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The Ascent of the Maami
The terror of being accosted by the TamBrahm Maami at family functions has persisted right from the dawn of the Madisaar Ages to the times of the Churidaar (aka. Punjaabi dress) to the Jeans era. When Darwin said, ‘it is… Read More ›
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The unbearable greatness of BE-ing (apologies to Milan Kundera)
Circa 1993, I joined an engineering course in Bombay University. Because, well, that’s the least any self-worthy TamBrahm had to do if he hadn’t cracked the JEE. Doing anything else, like, say, a graduation in science or Arts (Oh! Murugaa!),… Read More ›
