Talk of Many Things

For a long time, there was only one Indian company (Indian Oil Corporation) in the Fortune GLOBAL 500 list of the world's 500 largest corporations. In this year's list, published…

My sister (S Roopa, www.sroopa.com) was in town recently. Herself being a rock-buff, I took her to the London Rock Music Tour. The last time I'd taken on this tour…

During the last couple of years, I've had the experience of buying and setting up several gadgets like the HP PSC-2410 All-in-One Multifunction Device (Printer, Scanner, Copier and Fax), Nokia…

Are you one of those who'd upgraded to broadband so that you could enjoy "Formula One" Internet speeds? According to a recent Financial Times article "In the Doghouse", many such…

While I listen to a wide range of music, readers of the Favorite Music page on my website would have noticed that I'm partial to ROCK. During my days in…

In a previous blog post titled "The Myth of Customer as King", which you can read here, I had written about others' experience of getting an Internet broadband connection in…

During my current stay in London, one of the things I've been very impressed with is the DLR train network. Many of us would've seen driverless trains plying from one…

When I used to live in India in Pune, India until a few months ago, I had faced a tough time getting a broadband connection at my home in Kalyaninagar.…

When I used to travel by London buses in the early 2000s, I'd found them to be punctual and very user-friendly. Features I'd grown used to from my experience with…