Valley Chai

in several company offsites, in many class room conversations at the IIMB, gandhi comes up a lot. not only from us that had 1st grade text books that read “gandhi never lied”, but from folks that had cell phones before they turned 5.
people use the image of gandhi to embody everything that symbolizes indian righteousness. [...]

Standing through the Independence Day 2008 celebration at IIM Bangalore, I was trying to recollect the last time I saw the Indian flag raised. Most likely it was sometime in IIT (1990-1994) Chennai.
This kind of function is one of those things I longed to be a part of for many years while I was in [...]

a little trust, a ton of service, and one suffocating crowd after another.
it may be the widespread spend-culture, plethora of brands or may be my myopic view of the few places i frequent. as my professor at IIMB puts it, india has 350M middle-class population in india that can afford most of the good brands [...]

as a world-citizen, i am quite elated about what sunita williams has achieved. her being of indian origin is a marker that is to be noted, and respected for what it is. as female minority astronaut achieving the success she did is remarkable. check out the story on rediff.
but indians rushing to confer an award [...]

after the 4-wheel bakeoff ended with a maruti swict zxi, it was time for the 2-wheel hunt. and after a 2-month introspection about what i want in my 2-wheeled sidekick, i got my royal enfield machismo 350 home last weekend.
while shopping for a bike in india, all said and done, it comes down to whether [...]