Abhinav Agarwal

Excel Web Application Announced at PDC - someone at Microsoft has finally woken up and realized that they cannot find the move towards the ...

The Unproven Path - by Joel Spolsky Unappreciated hero: Tap water - from the Made to Stick blog by Dan Heath. It also mentions Charles Fi...

Edited this post to add more content at the bottom. Reading about these dramatic headlines, GM reports $2.5B 3Q loss, says it's running...

When Your Colleague Is a Saboteur (HBR Case Study and Commentary) (from the November 2008 issue of HBR) is a case-study that I found quite ...

Azure Blues - Robert Cringely argues, persuasively, that Moore's law will bring the same sort of disruptive enablement to the world of ...

Seth Godin is a prolific blogger and a marketing guru with several bestsellers to his credit. While reading the Acknowledgments section of ...

The first post. Shall post photographs, since that is what I like doing, taking photographs, i.e. And shall also post reviews on books I rea...

John Wright's Indian Summers with Sharda Ugra and Paul Thomas   Heart warming, funny, and down-to-earth I finished reading John ...

Mumbai (formerly called Bombay) is a city of enterprise. This is an image that has stayed with me... this person has found a need, namel...

Motilal Banarsidas Publishers , MLBD as they are also known, are the oldest publishing house in India, established in 1903. They identify ...

 This below is a photo I took in November 2003 - at the time this BMW showroom was under construction. And this below is a photo I took in...

Mt St Helens is an active volcano. It last erupted more than 20 years back, in 1980, and blew off more than a thousand feet off its top, ...

The Undercover Economist I finished reading " The Undercover Economist : Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why Y...

Some recent "You Said It" cartoons by Laxman. This one below is actually a rerun (note the "TOI Archives" caption at th...

I went to the Strand Book Stall's annual sale at the Chinnaswamy stadium this weekend. Even though it was held at the Chinnaswamy stadi...

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal  ( Kindle Edition ) The best, most informative, and scary book I have read all ye...

My stay in the US gave me an epiphany (nope... didn't give me enough money, but that's a different story, and anyway you can neve...

1999 and 2000 were also the years I visited the Mt Rainier National Park ( Wikipedia link , National Park Service page ). If you drive sou...

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It   ( Kindle Edition ) Another book that I read earlier this...

It was in March 1999 (Mar 27, according to the date stamp on one of the photos) that I and Subhash went skiing. It was near the end of the ...