The Outlier Indian

Each of the Indian banks has a tag-line that has something to say about the customers. Each of the Indian banks runs marketing campaign, once in a while, that has something to say about the customers. They speak about the primacy of the customers – how they care about the customers, how customers are central […]

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What do you know about Anandi Gopal Joshi? Asima Chatterjee? Rukhmabai Raut? Cornelia Sorabji? Leave aside knowing anything about them, have you heard about them? Unless for Google Doodle, I would not have. India has a rich cultural heritage and a glorious past. That is what we talk about, we hear and we would like […]

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The 12 boys and their soccer coach have been saved in the Thai Cave Rescue operation. It once again goes to show that the human determination and the will-power can surpass all odds. All through this crisis, there have been lingering questions – What would be the outcome if this happened in India? The ending […]

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WhatsApp rumours lead to the death of 29 fellow citizens. India is diverse, different languages, different cultures; I had wondered what holds India together. WhatsApp rumours and its tragic results are giving me the answer – Our stupidity. Lynching has happened across the length and the breadth of the country. The responses, all throughout, are […]

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The fact that Indian State is devoid of imagination and decrepit does not require much proof as such. I went to a deer park with my family. Jawahar Deer Park, Shamirpet, Hyderabad to be precise. A simple 2-hour visit showed how Indian State fails in any of the tasks expected. Though I am talking about […]

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Ola is promoting Ola Auto vigorously. They have Ola Auto Access Fee when you book an auto on the Ola app. Have you ever wondered what is the value addition done by Ola for the Ola Auto Access Fee? The Ola Auto Access Fee I and some of my acquaintances have tried booking Ola Auto […]

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This is the second part of the post – The Morals & Ethics of Indian Media. For the first part, please click here.  Indian Media has no local news The news is limited to national/regional and as such, there are no journalists, so no local news. There are innumerable talk-shows/edits/opinion pages but no local news. […]

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Recently, there has been a sting operation by Cobrapost about the morals and ethics of media – rather the absence of it. Mainstream media will not go after its own, rather they will come up with holier than thou attitude or at best, nothing at all, sweep everything below the carpet. Pratap Bhanu Mehta has […]

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In an alliance, what do you expect a party with 2/3rd of the seats to do? Lead. Wrong. In Karnataka 2018, Congress got 78 seats and JD(S) got 37 seats. Yet, there shall not be any Congress CM, but only Deputy CM. Why? Because, more than winning himself, Rahul Gandhi wants to defeat Narendra Modi. […]

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The mandate of Karnataka 2018 is out. For the BJP, it is the case of so near, so far; with 8-9 seats missing to the majority. For the Congress, it is a moral victory that they have managed to keep BJP away from the majority of its own, though it is a different matter that […]

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