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Author Archives: Raghav/Raghu
Staying inspired!
Inspiration is another of those neural obscurities, directly impacting our daily lives and in the long run shaping up our core principles and our personalities. Deriving inspiration from multiplicity of sources influences our take on life and molds us into … Continue reading
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Indulging in wordplay
I’m not sure if this is a personal fancy, or if many of you have this trend of favorite words: Some word which occupies your mind, conversations and writings either due to its phonetics, or simply its implications. I regularly … Continue reading
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Mental lethargy: A societal peril
A recent observation which has been groping me in frustration is the mental lethargy as I call it, observed in many of the minds around me. Now, if all of this is a late revelation, or is there an alteration … Continue reading
The emerging mind, and the overwhelming awe
The ability to be able to do Science is the grandest gift that has been bestowed upon us Homo sapiens, during the course of evolution, while we were trying to ‘survive’. To be able to understand the intricate patterns of … Continue reading
Tagged brain, evolution, Philosophy
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Advertising genes? LOL!
The incentive for humans to do all that, that is humanely possible to do, has had lots of people speculating in various dimensions. There have been social, economic, philanthropic and biological justifications. The most entertaining of these, and that is … Continue reading
Socially necessary value of oneself
An interesting observation by a fellow rationale was reported to me, about me having a broad network with wide range of people in it (not on Facebook!), but the real people network. Well, even if I was quite aware of … Continue reading
Tagged abstract, network, society
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Top 10 songs in the last 50 days
The last couple of months have washed away all the music famine, a music afficionado like me was facing. I must admit that for quite sometime, before that there was no music whatsoever,that was even audio palatable! And am I … Continue reading
Revisiting the JanLokpal debate
For some organizational purposes, friends and myself from ITEC visited Justice Santosh Hegde, former Lokayukta and a core committee member in the “Team Anna”, and I was looking forward to meet him in person after all the initial genuine work … Continue reading
Tagged corruption, lokpal
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ಯರೂ ಕಾಣದ ಆಪಲ್ ಕಂಡ ಜಾಬ್ಸ್
ಗಣಕಗಳನ್ನು ಜನಸಾಮನ್ಯರು ಬಳಸಲು ಅನುಕೂಲವಾಗುವಂತೆ ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದಾಗಿ ಹೊರಟ ಆಪಲ್ ಕಂಪನಿಯು, ಗಣಕ ಮತ್ತು ತನ್ನ ಇನಿತ್ತರ ಉತ್ಪನ್ನಗಳ ಸ್ವರೂಪಕ್ಕೆ ಅತಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಪ್ರಾಮುಖ್ಯತೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟರು. ಈ ಕಾರಣ ಆಪಲ್ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಿದ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನವು ಗ್ರಾಹಕರಿಗೆ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರತೆ ಇಲ್ಲದಿರುವ , ಅತಿ ದುಬಾರಿಯಾದ ಉತ್ಪಾದನೆಗಳನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸಿ, ಗ್ರಾಹಕರಿಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಚಟದಂತೆ ಬೆಳೆದ ಆಪಲ್ ಕಂಪನಿಯ ಸಂಸ್ಥಾಪಕರಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಖ್ಯರಾದ ಸ್ಟೀವ್ … Continue reading
Mistrust and Marketing
The notion across the manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries, and more so amongst the consuming end-users is that Marketing in essence is the pinnacle of product development; And that without this piece of gimmickry there would be not much of value … Continue reading
Ideas are Immortal 