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 […]

Companies are Foraying in India with full gust with new Swanky products, but the basic consumers problems in Indian still remains unlisten, Although consumer durables market has been tapped effectively in the urban region there is still a lot of scope in the rural segment. Competition is getting tougher and tougher in this segment because […]

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 […]

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 […]

India has so long been a Cultural Tourist’s delight and promoted forever as a destination with a vibrant historical legacy  and visual heritage, that we sometimes lose our unique-ness in a market always hungry for something new.  
The newest shape on the tourism block is an ideal mould for Indian Tourism and the faster we […]

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, […]

 
 
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 […]

Presidential Elections have just got over in
Russia and Dmitry Medvedev won a landslide victory in these elections that were held on March 2. Medvedev has been provided with a mandate to step into the rather large shoes of Vladimir Putin. In the final vote count, Medvedev got 70.2 percent of the vote with 99.7 […]

“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 […]

Power cuts and black outs in South Africa, which was counted among the first world countries about a decade back, came as a surprise to me.  Its not that I am not used to load shedding. As a citizen of a developing country, which was till recently, notorious for poor infrastructure and government apathy towards […]

If you are a consultant you wished there were repeat orders from a client. True! But how does this happen?? It should set us off looking for the best reasons and methods to get such businesses.
Quite a few consulting firms have this Doctor like diagnostic approach. Of course, such an approach will help the client […]

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 […]