Kapil's Korner

It’s not been a very good day today. Lots of rain, water-logging in Mumbai and the city has been crawling. Very little work resulted in a slow day which is something I don’t like in office at the start of the week. An email forward from a friend helped end the day on a better [...]

Rickshaws in Nagpur don’t have meters. You negotiate with the driver for your location and then you can make the ride. Last week I spent some time in Nagpur. For two days I paid Rs.60 every morning to reach my destination from the hotel. On the third day I checked out and with my luggage [...]

“Habit is man’s enemy.” Nitika shared this with a rather smirky smile on her face. Yes, I do have a few habits which irritate her. I can make all the reasons in the book to avoid a late night on weekdays. I hate having lunch out of home on Sundays. But then I’ll admit it, [...]

My letter to editor in response to Mid-DAY’s article on the Bajaj Pulsar TV commercial got published in yesterday’s edition. Click here to read my letter.

I just viewed the "Nike+" presentation for Cannes 2007. The case study is a Titanium winner, I think. And now I am very inspired to make running an important activity of my life. Need to pull out those sneakers and go out for the run. I want to challenge myself to some kind of physical [...]

Let’s put the disclaimer first. I don’t have any political inclinations or favourites and also I surely don’t have anything against a particular caste. The current Anti- North Indian attacks by MNS supporters on the streets of Mumbai is once again a show of undue power in the hands of few. And if that was [...]

This is going to be the last post for 2007 and as I look back I think it was interesting to start the year on my new job. And all the hard work put in did pay off in a few months when I got a little gift of appreciation. The year could not have [...]

Something I would not like to forget for a long time … or maybe never. There is no such thing as an average human being; if you have a normal brain, you are superior. – Celebrated Neurosurgeon Ben Carson If you aim for the stars you’ll at least reach the clouds. But if you aim [...]

Last evening I was chatting up with a colleague when she shared something interesting she read a few days back. Author Luke Sullivan in the last chapter of his book Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads says that we all must work hard but we must not sacrifice important social events [...]

Early morning this news was not something pleasant to start the day with. MUMBAI: Services on the Western Railway were disrupted for an hour on Thursday evening after an agitated mob blocked the tracks at Goregaon. They were upset at the death of a three-year-old girl who was knocked down by a local train while [...]