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Pay like a Start Up

We are a Start Up. We can't offer high salary. But we Do offer Flexibility. Only flexibility can motivate an overworked and underpaid team.  ðŸ˜Ž Psst....*Terms and Conditions always apply. There is no free lunch or flexibility Dummy! Strings are super secured with Super Glue! 😜

How to Build a World Class Organisation on a shoe string budget?

This is not just a joke! It is commonly used by many bootstrapped organisation till their employees lose their own boots! Don't believe me yet? Let's look at where Apple makes most of its products? No prizes for all those saying China. Those amazing i - phones/pads/watches/ pods/Macs are all made in China! Advisory: Staff will eventually grow wings and fly away to greener pastures sooner than later.

Delusions from College to Work

Blessed are the days, when you are Young and Naive! Age 19: Psychology is so cool. You don't need to mug it up. You just happen to have stored in long term memory, all Freudian concepts, involuntarily, by the time you finish graduation. You think, it is such a perfect vocational course. The only one in humanities that makes you job ready! Go on laugh now, I know what you are thinking! I couldn't help it either. Like I said, blessed are those days, when you were young and naive. Age 22: Getting in those prestigious Hospitals specializing in mental health seems ridiculously competitive. You wonder if you have a chance against the remaining 9,99,999 applicants to MA Psychology. Age 25: MA in Psychology seems to have turned your clear milk like mind into curd! Clearly not what you had expected, after having invested 5 bloody years into college education! You cannot seem to understand how saving the mental equilibrium of others is a reliable livelihood source, considering, it ...

Coorg - A week-end getaway from Bangalore!

Madikeri in Coorg offers respite from the noise, pollution, concrete jungle that is Bangalore. How to reach (budget options) :   KSRTC buses: Helpful for those on a shoe string budget. Read the next option, if buses flying down pin bend turns, makes you queasy.   Indian Rail : If travelling at midnight does not make you squeal like crazy or look behind your back, every nano second then opt for a passenger train. Starts at Bangalore City Junction at 12 a.m  to reach Mysore. You can pray the scheduled arrival time gets delayed, like me, it happens to be 04.00 am. Praying for such delays doesn't work though! If you sleep like a log, don't worry, the porters and tea sellers will ensure you wake up after the train is deserted. Hop on to a bus headed towards Madikeri, from Mysore Bus Stand (1 k.m from Mysore Railway Station). Coorg the land of Coffee, spices and oranges lies two and a half hours away. Destination: Shanti Estate, Madikeri  In two hours and f...

Foodie lovers

All ye food lovers from Delhi are some of you wondering why the hell are your taste buds have got south indianised post Bangalore venture then i think OOTY Chocolates will just change your mind. They are homemade and bloody fresh! Its this small INDIAN shop which has choclates in all falvours taht you can think of but havent seen offered by Cadbury, i tried the rum and raisin which costs Rs.500 per kg! phew !! Well dont be dismayed by the cost as it jsut macthed up much better than Cadbury's rum and raisin. And the best part is i could taste the rum! One of the shops is in Mosque road, indira nagar and at Kormangala And finally for those who leave the green spots more than the maniac malls at MG or whatever road then you can go to Lalbagh the most greenest and lanscpaed beautiful areas with huge trees, a rose garden and bonzai garden and a glass house with lots of places to get up close to that lover of yours on weekdays!. And be socially responsible -dont get naked out there!

Book review- Raj Patel’s Stuffed and starved

" From the farm to the fork" the story unfolds to gripping disturbing climax. Book review- Raj Patel’s Stuffed and starved A book that is not to be trusted simply by its non flashy cover. A book so well written about food that it initiates self introspection about how we never question some of the basic things in life like why have started eating cauliflower even in the winters when its used to be available only during the summers! Or why is mommy and dady now purchasing groceries from that mall by burning 1 litre of gas when they used to buy the same from the local grocery shop earlier when we were kids? Patel has made a non fiction book so curiously unlike a work of non fiction which ends up boring and not worth perusing once put down. Replete with examples from around the globe on movements trying to put this huge agroindustry accountable for its deeds the book simply talks about food. Its not a foodie’s delight but a nightmare which maybe every foodie might have conscious...