Abhinav Agarwal

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Monday, July 31, 2017

Management Mantras for Startups - Waste Not, Vacate Not

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Image credit: pexels.com Waste Not, Vacate Not. W hen Jeff Bezos , founder and CEO of Amazon, started out Amazon, he, along wit...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Natural Enmity - Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Pancatantra

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Natural Enmity - Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Pancatantra [Book 1], by Ashay Naik A shay Naik's book, " Natural ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Flipkart and the Art of Advertising Mishaps - 1

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I n the age of startups, especially in the e-commerce space, where money is plentiful - or till a a year or so back, used to be - the o...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Mahabharata, Book Two - Ambition, by Somdip Datta

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I s there a new way to present the Mahabharata? A story as epic and grand as the Mahabharata has inspired the great and the devoted alike...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Usability, Product Management, and LinkedIn - a rant

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L inkedIn began as a professional networking site, has evolved into a social media behemoth, and has yet managed to maintain and sharpen...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Quotes - Raja Dharma Parva

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The Mahabharata, Vol. 8 Translated by Bibek Debroy [Unabridged English translation of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute'...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Quotes - Apad Dharma Parva

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These are selected quotes from the Apad Dharma Parva of the Mahabharata. The quotes are taken from Vol.8 of Bibek Debroy's unabridge...
Monday, May 22, 2017

The Dark Cloud of the H1-B Fallout for Indian Companies: Layoffs or Reduced Valuations

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I ndia's second-largest IT company, Infosys, put out a press release on the 2nd of May, 2017 ( link ), that it would be hiring ...

Illustrated Mahabharata - Errors

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I n my review of " The Illustrated Mahabharata ", I wrote that this is a magnificent coffee-table book that fills a need for ...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Illustrated Mahabharata - Review

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E ven with the scores of books that have been written on the Mahabharata - translations like Dr. Bibek Debroy's , abridgments like Jo...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Rama and Ayodhya and The Battle for Rama - Review

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  "Rama and Ayodhya" and "The Battle for Rama", by Meenakshi Jain Circumstantial Evidence Preceded Archaeological ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Amazon Launches Prime in India. Can Flipkart Stay ‘First’?

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O n the 27th of June, 2016, Amazon launched the first of its first AWS (Amazon Web Services) data centers in India, in Mumbai. Amazon ...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Oracle Looking to Buy Accenture? Stranger Things Have Happened

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Image credit: pixels.com The Register   reported  that Oracle may be exploring the "feasibility of buying multi-billion dollar co...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Kurukshetra, A Photo Yaatra - 1

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T he Grant Trunk Road - possibly the oldest surviving highway in the world - starts out in what is now Bangladesh, makes its way through...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Alcohol — Latin, Arabic, or Indian/Hindu? An Etymology

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W hat is the etymology of the word “alcohol”? According to Wikipedia , “ the word alcohol appears in English as a term for a very fine...
Monday, March 6, 2017

The Battle for Rama - 1. Babur's Mosques

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I n her 2013 book, " Rama and Ayodhya ", Meenakshi Jain had presented perhaps the most accessible, authoritative, and comprehen...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Tunnel of Varanavat - Review

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Tunnel of Varanavat: Mahabharat Reimagined by Gautam Chikermane   W hen Duryodhana attempted to poison and drown Bheem during their chi...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Flipkart and the Revolving Door

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T he contrast could not have been more striking, or poignant. 2017 began on a sombre note for Flipkart, when it announced on the 9th of J...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Aamir Khan's Games and a Management Lesson on Celebrity Brand Endorsements

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Movie poster of Dangal [image credit: Disney] N ow that it is becoming clear that Aamir Khan's latest movie, " Dangal "...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Diwali, Hinduphobia and the Great Indian Derangement Syndrome

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D iwali (or Deepavali) is a time for celebration. Diwali is a time for celebrating the return of Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana back to Ayod...
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