Aristotle Says: 
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”  
Habits are not very hard to develop and not very easy to leave. Habits are usually  developed in two ways – one, those you pick up as a child or what you inherit from your elders like parents, grandparents […]

With the IT world changing everyday, there is a need for a “quick”, “immediate” and “simple” understanding of terms and topics. These terms could be from any area of discussion, ranging from IT, and finance to space technology and history. A recent initiative to bring this quick understanding of such varied topics has been in […]

Today, activities that are happening worldwide are dominated by the new age technologies. All these technologies are changing at a rapid pace. We notice that the Web 2.0 is gaining prominence in almost all spheres of life.
Talking about Web 2.0, a form of technology that is used here is Blogs. A blog (short name […]

Gurukul a word that today’s generation probably does not think about. Education, a term often confused with literacy, a statistic measuring development. EXPOs, a new-age phenomena where everyone gets to showcase almost everything! 
In the internet age where everything has to happen NOW, the concept of EXPOs has its proven merits. On the other hand, India’s […]

My domestic help, Esther,  is Zulu, which a majority of South Africa is.  Her mother is from Zimbabwe, which is also not unique, as the two countries share a border and as it happens all over the world, people move to the economically developed country.
Now, what is of interest is that early this year, her […]

I visited the land of ‘swasdee-kha’, ate deliciuos Thai curries, enjoyed the beaches, got an insight into the real meaning of service and shopped like crazy. But the most important take-away, for me, was the art of wholesale. 
Coming from India, which is witnessing a retail boom and where the key topics of discussion are malls, […]

The other day I waited for an hour on the Delhi-Gurgaon toll plaza. An hour! On an expressway! Aren’t they supposed to make distances shorter? Well, apparently not. And then it struck me that it’s not only the expressway, there is a problem everywhere. Along with a new flyover, comes a new traffic line –up. 
So […]

  
Let us be true to ourselves and find an answer to a question asked very frequently - Are you able to manage your time very well? If at all yes, are you able to manage this time productively? 
In a business set-up, we have several pressing work demands for the same time period and we often […]

 
 
I often wonder what has led to the creation of so many unusual and interesting words in English language. I decided to explore the origin of English and its journey to become a dominant language of the world. What I came across during the journey was various interesting English words. 
To begin with, English is a […]

 
Have you ever wondered how some English phrases have their origination from the various games and sports that people play? 
Sport is defined as a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Also, it is defined as a physical activity that is engaged in for pleasure […]

“I can’t believe you speak such fluent English,” is the comment we (my husband and I) get every time we meet a South African. My first thought is “you will be shocked if you visit India, where even daily labourer can string together a sentence in English.”
The statement shows little exposure people here have to […]

Critics love to write things off. They wrote of print when internet came in, they wrote of radio when TV came in, they also almost wrote off railways with the advent of the low cost airlines.  
But they are very important people – not for what they say but for the response they evoke in […]

We finally got the SAITA Incubator off the ground. The SAITA Incubator has an emerging exciting retail brand under its wings. 
Many of our friends, peers ask why a management consulting firm should invest in something like an incubator.  Isn’t it the forte of industry bodies, not-for-profits and governments?  Well, maybe!The logic is simple. SAITA Incubator […]

We must truly and totally thank the Brits. Not for what they did to the history and politics of this nation but for the fact that they left this new independent emerging India with a large employment generating skill – The English Language. However, they also left for all of us “The English Elite” of […]

Last week, as I settled into the aircraft seat on my way back home from an envied ‘break’, I picked up the magazine in the seat pocket and opened to an almost blank page – with a scribble at the bottom that said   -  the greatest challenge is still the blank page. Needless to […]