What makes some states better at school education? The tipping point in Indian school education

Some states perform better at educating their children than others. That is a known fact. And many a thesis has been written about what are the factors contributing to this state of affairs. But is there a single, simple variable that can largely explain this variation in quality of education and the % of eligible …

Branded apparel retail’s new business model – perpetual deep discounts

Some Apparel brands have started offering deep discounts round the year. This could be dangerous as permanent deep discounting does not help anyone in the long run, as it erodes the perceived value of the brand. A few years back, a not so quite revolution swept through the then staid corridors of Indian apparel retailing. …

A solution to Rajiv Chowk’s (Gurgaon) perpetual traffic jams

Rajiv Chowk on NH8 (Delhi - Jaipur) is jammed all times of the day. There have been instances when it has taken me 45 minutes or more to cross this point. Rajiv Chowk is not only on the busy Delhi- Gurgaon highway, but is also the crossing point between old and new Gurgaons. Every time …

Why have the Commonwealth Games become so corrupt?

By now, the scale of corruption in organizing the Commonwealth games has reached epic proportions and newer skeletons are tumbling out by the day. The scale of corruption is truly staggering to say the least. Is it that corruption has become not just endemic, but also? Or is there something about the Commonwealth Games that …

Twitter changes format for follow notification email. Is advertising next?

Starting today morning, Twitter changed the formatting of the email notification it sends you when some one starts following you. Now, why am I writing about this trivial issue? Because only yesterday, I had blogged about what makes people open emailers. There, we saw that mailers need to be informative and entertaining for more and …