Kapil's Korner

This is a summary of my experience on researching and successfully making an application for a new passport booklet since I had exhausted the pages of my old passport. Getting Started As the need to apply for a new passport came up, I started talking to friends & family back in India to figure out [...]

This month we finish about 9 months since we moved to Nairobi. But friends and family are yet confused on which part of the world is this place. No complaints. I was’t very good with geography in school myself. So here is a ready reckoner on understanding the geography of where we live and more [...]

The 2011 X’mas holiday has been rather wonderful. Spent some lovely time exploring Nairobi with wife and a new set of friends we have here. Explored We visited the Nairobi National Park. Saw a few animals – Giraffes, Baboons, Bisons / Wild Bulls, lots of deers. Unfortunately could not see any of the wild cats. [...]

The WOW! Moment is when that little extra makes me have a wonderful customer service experience.   On the weekend, wife and me were shopping for our new apartment at TACC Store. We were browsing the many colourful and rather confusing furnishing material section of the store. Due to the X’mas discounts, the store was busy and [...]

At the start of this year something interesting happened. First, I moved jobs and started doing something I was passionate about – working with a digital communication agency. And before I could even warm the office chair I was packed off for 2 months to visit the jungle land. Yes, I was in the Kenya [...]

In a late last night tweet sir @additiyom tells me about the twitterati column in Campaign India’s latest issue. Thanks to a super network and some efficient ex-colleagues at Mudra I was able to finally see what the buzz was all about. So here it is for you to stare and for me to smile. [...]

Mom is a gardener at heart. She’s the one who believes that singing to her plants helps them grow better. She takes care of her garden just like it was one of her kids. The recent attraction in her little garden has been this really attractive green mirchi [chilli]. And then there are some beautiful [...]

Last evening I managed to put the regular office work on hold and got myself out to go and listen to a few successful entrepreneurs share their magic stories. Of course it wasn’t magic. There is an idea, lots of hard work and luck which goes into putting them where they are today. Some of [...]

#1 The talented Indian movie comedian Johnny Walker was a teetotaler all his life. Then why did he get the name of a whiskey brand? Read here #2 Wish you could put more into that SMS? Read why text messages are limited to 160 characters? #3 Fucking (pronounced “fook-ing”) is an Austrian village located in [...]

Mumbai, hold your breathPrivate swimming pools with DB homes Spotted this hoarding at one of the busy traffic junction of South Mumbai. Seriously, can our city really afford to have private swimming pools? Isn’t the recent spate of water cuts a wake up call to all of us and that too a RUDE one. considering [...]