Emotionally Speaking

Having bought >120 books, I recommend Flipkart.com to buy books online (India)

UPDATE: June 2010. Now I have shopped some 350 books from flipkart.  Flipkart rocks! Flipkart now also sells CDs, DVDs, Music and games and have raised $8 to $10 million dollar VC funding (source); so expect more! I had a very bad experience with online shopping (I was cheated by Rediff Shopping and then [...]

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5 Things Hospitals Can Do to Improve the Customer Experience

We have many things wrong with our healthcare system. But, one thing we do right is give Americans (or at least those with insurance) plenty of choices in healthcare. Large cities often have many hospitals for patients to choose from, and even smaller areas offer competition among hospitals for patients. So, what can hospitals do [...]

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Indian Rail reservation site IRCTC sucks

The Indian Railways’ Train Reservation website IRCTC.co.in is the 22nd most trafficked site in India according to Alexa rankings and it is one of the worst websites in India! Here is my truncated list of woes and I am sure most (if not all) experience all/most of these problems. The site is slow, very [...]

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On choosing a good web hosting service : Experiences of a layman

I am planning to self-host two of my WordPress blogs [including this one] and recently did a lot of research online in finding some good web hosts, finding free WordPress themes [mostly magazine themes, my favourite] and ran into a lot of good information and useful tips and tricks. This is a brief collection of [...]

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The Age of Stupid’s Green Carpet Premiere at PVR Delhi and Shekhar Kapur: a first-hand report

Yesterday evening [22 September 2009] I was at the Green Carpet Premiere of the hard-hitting ‘drama-documentary-animation’ on climate change ‘The Age of Stupid’ at PVR Premiere [Select Citywalk, Saket, New Delhi, India] organised by Greenpeace and tcktcktck [a global alliance of civil society calling for binding climate change agreements] supported by the PVR CSR [...]

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Some interesting facts on Orkut users and demographics

The following facts are an interesting collection of some of the data relating to users on Orkut, the popular social networking site founded on 22 January 2004 sourced from Orkut demographics . According to the presently available official Orkut data as on 8 September 2009 more than 70 per cent of Orkut users are young [...]

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