Take a look at this news item below : An engineer friend of mine this morning forwarded it to me and exclaimed in confounded astonishment! “This is very difficult to comprehend! A food delivery company which went public only a year ago is valued more than ONGC!!” It astonished me too but I was notContinue reading “Why is the Zomato Company’s delivery-man more valuable than the giant ONGC’s expert engineer?”
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “FINANCIAL LITERACY” AND “FINANCIAL HIGHER EDUCATION” is Anxiety and Hope
What is meant by “financial literacy” ? What do we mean when we say a person is “financially literate”? When a person who has worked so very hard in life to earn money and he at last realises that it’s about time he must somehow find ways and means to make the money so earnedContinue reading “THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “FINANCIAL LITERACY” AND “FINANCIAL HIGHER EDUCATION” is Anxiety and Hope”
BEWARE “THE IDES OF FEBRUARY” if the Valentine mood happens to seize you …
Hastening to romanticise the “Ides of February” in the heady, pinky Season of Valentine could end up you later repenting bitterly in a dark Shakespearean tragedy of the “Ides of March” !! In America, people have repented thus with a combined loss of $ 547 million! Read below link: https://gizmodo.com/ftc-online-romance-scammers-fraud-record-high-2021-1848529748 After you’ve read the above,Continue reading “BEWARE “THE IDES OF FEBRUARY” if the Valentine mood happens to seize you …”
The Metaverse — another dimension of the Coronavirus and the “MAD”-virus
Dear Sri Ranganathan, Thank you for reading my piece on the subject-line and also for taking time out to pen your below comments on it … Some days I wake up in the morning, follow the news around the world and while reflecting on it , I fail to make any sense of it all…Continue reading “The Metaverse — another dimension of the Coronavirus and the “MAD”-virus”
THE CORONA VIRUS AND THE “MAD-VIRUS”
When I looked at this Infograph below and read the article in the URL below this morning , I felt my mind being half blown away by the sheer implications of the data presented! https://www.burga.com/blogs/news/mobile-users-spend-over-350-million-daily-on-games-and-apps-in-2021 There is a new pandemic around the corner that is going to envelop the world long after the Coronavirus (hopefullyContinue reading “THE CORONA VIRUS AND THE “MAD-VIRUS””
THE GLOBAL WAR BETWEEN REAL VIRTUE AND VIRTUAL REALITY
What this Infograph suggests to me is that the mental state and maturity of 85% of American population ranges … on the scale of psychological imbalance … between infantility, pathological addiction to video-gaming and advancing mental retardation. One can understand below 18 and under and 65+ year-olds hooked to play-station video-games … but to seeContinue reading “THE GLOBAL WAR BETWEEN REAL VIRTUE AND VIRTUAL REALITY”
The strategic intent behind modern online retail marketing
Here is a near-perfect example of modern retail online marketing … Take a cheap, pretty ordinary product like this one, give it a new name (day bed!) hype it through branding (Indian design 1000 years old!) , differentiate it from competition (hand-woven!) , infuse Australian national pride into the product by completely neutering its possibleContinue reading “The strategic intent behind modern online retail marketing”