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Closest.in

Does the world need another social network? The founders of Closest.in seem to think so, since they believe in providing a solution to a specific perceived need. In conversation with co-founder Shree Kant Bohra. [scribd id=62809140 key=key-pd20vxp9xy4w7c8ktf2 mode=list]

Weekly Top 5

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Neti, Neti Not This, Not This

Anjum Hasan Before anything else, the summary on the back of the book does not really do justice to what the book is about. That’s just a perspective. Though indeed, it is about Sophie, a girl from Shillong who came to Bangalore to work with a book publishing company and ended up in a US-based […]

Identity & Equity

I read two quotes in a completely unrelated (to this blog) context – Ashwin Sanghi’s “Chanakya’s Chant”, a work of fiction – but was intrigued by the perspective when I saw the ‘brand-social’ domain through this ‘framework’. The quote to start with is the one by John Wooden “Be more concerned with your character than […]

Parenthesis

Sometime back, I saw this relatively unknown Malayalam movie called ‘Calendar’, starring Zareena Wahab, playing mother to Navya Nair. Zareena’s character is widowed at 21 and she refuses to remarry since she wants to give all her attention to her child. The movie worked for me, despite it being built on the cliched “kid grows […]