Kolkata and Puri Trip: Summary

The planning for the trip started 3-4 months back when Santanu had unofficially invited me for his marriage with Treena at Kolkata. Since the marriage was scheduled on Thursday August 5th 2010, we thought of utilizing the following weekend to explore places in and around Kolkata. As part of planning, we had booked round-trip flight tickets from Mumbai to Kolkata three months in advance! Initially, Sunderbans was there in our itinerary but many people advise us not to go there during Monsoons, Himanshu made an alternate plan of going to Puri and Konark.

Burglary at 400709.11

Last Monday when I was about to start my planned work at BLR office, I got an unexpected call from Goldy, the broker who had done the deal for our rented flat in Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai. He seemed to be very apprehensive about our whereabouts and gave me a shocking news that the door of our apartment was found to be open just-like-that from Sunday morning. For the next five-ten seconds, I just couldn’t believe my ears and then I continued and asked him whether it’s a burglary ? He replied yes by look-of-things and not sure what exactly has been stolen. He requested me to rush to Mumbai asap as my presence is very much required to lodged a FIR.

Four Years !!

This blog is 4 years old now .. Personally it's been a wonderful journey as I have been using this space to share many exciting stuffs However, things have change tremendously since 2006, when blogging was considered to be a niche activity. Nowadays, with the rapid growth of internet in India every person has become a blogger in some sense for some or the other physic benefit.

Mobile Payment India 2010

Mobile Payment India 2010 was held in Mumbai on Friday, June 4th 2010. The central theme of the conference was for various stakeholders to discuss strategies and challenges for implementing solutions for the new way of digital financial transaction thru mobile phones.

Following are the excerpts of the talk given by some speakers who shared their thoughts on new and emerging technologies.

IMC – Mobile VAS Conference

The Indian Merchants’ Chamber(IMC) conducted a conference on mobile VAS in Mumbai on May 28th 2010. I attended the event being a delegate for the event thru my company. The theme of the event was to discuss the ‘Impact of 3G and BWA on Mobile VAS’. There were several speeches, presentations and panel discussions in which various stakeholders of industry participated.

MTDC Open Deck Bus Tour Experience

In the month of March when my Mother was in Mumbai for two weeks, I had a plan to show her a few signature places of South Mumbai. She was also very enthusiastic as some of the places were recently in news due to 26/11 attacks. Considering her endurance levels it was not a good idea to cover the places on foot and the alternative way of covering places in a rickety fiat taxis was not desirable.

Therefore, we opted for a conducted tour by MTDC Open-Deck-Bus Nilambari. The bus tour is scheduled twice in evenings, only on weekends. As suggested by the person at MTDC phone enquiry, we didn’t do any advance bookings, and got the tickets easily at the booking counter near Gateway-of-India just an hour before the start of first trip(at 7 pm).

Brand Equity Quiz 2010: Mumbai round

The Mumbai edition of Brand Equity Quiz was conducted at St Andrew Auditorium(Bandra), the same venue  where Landmark quiz was held two weeks back. The winner of quiz was Pradeep Ramanathan’s team from HUL,  co-incidentally he was part of winning team Haseena-ka-Paseena in Landmark quiz also. The major highlight of the quiz was the thrilling last round between HUL and Pramerica(lead by enthusiastic Megashyam). The quizmaster Derek O’Brein made it more exciting with his usual masalas.