Author Archives: Nikhil

CII Marketing Summit ‘06: Inaugural Session

I covered the CII Marketing Summit ‘06 for ContentSutra, held at the Taj Palace Hotel on 17th and 18th August. The theme of the event was “Marketing in a Global World: New Rules for an Old Game”. At MixedBag, I shall be posting the non-techie, marketing posts analysing the new Indian consumer, and the presentations […]

MoMoDelhi

If you’re a mobile or tech enthusiast, head over to the Adobe office in Noida next Saturday (5th of August) for Mobile Monday Delhi. The theme of the event is Mobile 2.0: Future Trends and Technology.
Among the talks planned (anyone can present, and anyone can attend), is one by Joshua D’Souza and Ashok Datar on […]

Altas about to shrug?

Is John Galt about the leave the building?

Laze-r

Image from the AIST Tokyo website
Amit linked to an interesting technology of projecting 3D plasma shapes in the air, using lasers.
I was under the impression that laser needs a surface to be visible; apparently not:
The display utilises an ionisation effect which occurs when a beam of laser light is focused to a point in air. […]

For Fire-Water

All these years we have tried to address the problem through the regular channels. We have been exhilarated by court orders, and astounded when they weren’t implemented. We have gate-crashed seminars and written petitions to make ourselves heard. All along we have received seemingly earnest assurances that the needful would be done. We don’t believe […]

So we take a break and switch the TV on. India A is playing Pakistan A for the Eurasia Cup (cricket). The game is being shown is on Sahara Filmi, for some reason, and one really feels spoilt for choice with some of the more interesting commentators airing their views - Rameez Raja, Arun […]

Just Cruise

By CuriousFury
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From Adrants:
Inspired by the Nike Awake commercial in which people wake up, grab their Nike Air Max 360 trainers and hit the day running, this spoof by Curiousfury pays homage to the Tom Cruise running trend. The spot weaves together the many Tom Cruise movie scenes in which he’s always […]

Her swiveling arm deposits a sock on the floor.
Distance covered: Approx. 6ft.Accuracy: Poor. She missed my face.
She sits on the bed with her legs crossed in front of her, the smooth skin from her knees downards shining pink in the light of the glowing tube in front of her, from behind me. Her toes, nails […]

A quick take on the budget

From the macro perspective, my instantaneous reaction is that this isn’t a negative budget, and a lot of duties have been rationalised. Which means that, as a long term investor, I can expect the impact of this budget to be felt next year. Particularly heartening is the reduction in fiscal deficit, though it remains to […]

Noo Dejine

After a week spent tinkering unsuccessfully with the old design at Testing Mixed Bag, I finally gave up and started afresh on my return from Jaipur. The result is the current minimalist design that you see, and it didn’t take more than a few hours to finish. I began with the minima theme that you […]