On Saturday Night Live’s September 13, 2008 season opener, Tina Fey took the show and wowed the broader viewership with her rendition of Governor Sarah Palin. At her side, Amy Poehler played a bitter Hillary Clinton. The fictional dual-appearance curiously played itself out in real life only a few days later in New York. In […]
Smartphones Are the Personal Assistants of Tomorrow
It is difficult to believe that the smartphone as we know it was only introduced into public consciousness one decade ago. While the popularity of cellphones had been increasing, it was the release of the first iPhone in 2007 that truly revolutionized the way in which phones are used on a daily basis. The functionality […]
New-age Guerilla Marketing – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear these two terms – ‘guerrilla marketing’ and “guerrilla warfare”? Surely, there must be something in common! Ah! I know you may be thinking of that light-hearted animal from the monkey family. I thought of it too. Jokes apart, what’s guerrilla marketing or guerrilla […]
A nonsensical pile from Nencini (viz a Nonsencini)
David C Anderson Let me start with a truism. At two extremes of humanity lie good people and bad people. There are also mixtures of both, and stupid people who just believe what they read in the papers. The same goes for institutions, and professions. But even within a good institution or profession or organisation […]
What Did We Learn From The Economic Crisis?
I recently attended a conference at the Aspen Institute in Prague entitled, “What Did We Learn from the Economic Crisis?” There were three highly reputable speakers; Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor at the London School of Economics; Jacek Rostowski, former Minister of Finance in Poland; and William White, Chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee […]
CHOGM – POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES – SOUTH BLOCK APOLOGISTS COULD THEY SAVE SRI LANKA FROM UNHRC CRIMES INITIATIVES
The CHOGM politics of the Delhi South Block cabal have sinister implications. In the rule of the jungle the powerful tribals extract the extra-ordinary from the weaker. Swapan Das Gupta likewise urges that the Tamils/diaspora to return the police powers, and land rights vested in the provincial unit under the 1987 Indo-SL Accord back to […]
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