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Of child-like thinking and the creative mind

by bhatnaturally on April 18, 2011

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Among the pile of toys my 5.5-year daughter plays with, my favourite is a LEGO set. Maybe I am re-living my deprived child hood but I have taken a shot at putting together the set – following the instructions given in the accompanying leaflet. But I have noticed that my daughter never follows the instructions [...]

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We must do ‘something’, but what?

by bhatnaturally on April 10, 2011

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Over the years, many pundits (including the arm chair variety like yours truly) have bemoaned the state of the Indian advertising industry. The chief cribs being: 1. There is a talent crunch: talented professionals are neither coming in to the advertising industry nor staying. We are losing talent to more satisfying and more paying industries [...]

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Why I keep coming back to Thesis theme for WordPress

April 4, 2011
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When it comes to personal blogging, I get the feeling that its just a handful who are serious about it. Most of my friends – erstwhile bloggers all, have moved on to social media as forms of personal expression. It’s easier compared to the troubles associated with blogging perhaps. The ‘troubles’ being choice of blogging platform, the theme, content creation, maintenance and so on.

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The new screens: hype or reality?

February 8, 2011
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This article of mine appeared in the Brand Wagon supplement of The Financial Express, today: In a recent survey among marketers in the US, it was reported that demand for mobile media services is “not yet living up to the industry hype”. The “not living up to hype” part could very well be true about [...]

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Of AK Hangal and social media

January 21, 2011

Jokes about the general pointlessness of social media networks abound. They are seen as good for idle talk and sharing photos. While that is perhaps the overarching perception, we’ve read about brands & individuals using these tools for a social cause. I got to witness it first hand yesterday: while the news of actor AK [...]

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Blogging is hard work, passion and discipline

November 8, 2010
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I updated my blog after nearly 3 weeks today.  And have missed several deadlines on other writing commitments – one each for Financial Express and afaqs. It’s been bugging me for a while and I was determined to write something…anything, on my blog. While work and personal commitments have kept me busy (er..work has kept [...]

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For me, personal blogging ain’t dead, but getting there

May 17, 2010
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It’s been a while since I was really happy about anything that I wrote on my blog. And the urge to put thoughts down about a topic and dash a blog post has died down of late. Was it about dearth of topics to write about? Not really. But of late, it’s getting difficult to [...]

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