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The inauguration day in Washington D.C. on January 20, 2017, ha s opened up some issues which could define the course of the next four years for America and certain parts of the world too! #WomensMarch is one of the anti-Trump tirades that have begun and looks to give back with interest at the disturbing comments made by the President-elect during the course of his campaign. Better respect, compassion towards their methods and improved human rights seem to be the strong initiatives supported by #WomenMarch. Hopes are pinned on people, who will look to ensure that women are represented in better light, during the Trump administration. 😌🙄👊🏻 Closer home, the #MaiBhiBaaharNiklungi campaign has built some steam after the ghastly attacks on women in Bengaluru on New Year's Eve 2017. Freedom of speech, right to free movement and improved plight of women rights are some of the major topics to be touched upon. For a better India, the #women need to be respected and consider equ...

The world is seeing a seismic shift and admittedly for the good. Technology is helping people, organizations and nations become self-sufficient and turn into change enablers. Technology upgrades are the need of the hour and everyone wants to stay ahead of the race (I mean everyone!) Gender stereotypes , which have time and again cropped up are seriously dwindling and its heartening to see more women roll up their sleeves and talk "techie," along with "coochie-cooing" with their loved ones. The growing streak of being independent and making a name for themselves is allowing the #bettergender to realize how much of technology can really make them stay afloat and remain different from the rest. From handling smart phones to flipping through E-books to utilizing the concept of "smart" kitchens, the women of the 21st century seems up to any task that involves a large chunk of technology. Rather I say, technology is on her fingertips and she can literally ...

Dear #IndianWomen,  It is becoming ridiculously impossible for an individual like me to understand what is really going on in the minds of the #socalled men, who have been part of the ghastly and abhorring molestation acts in the possibly most advanced of states in India, i.e. Karnataka. Is it becoming a plain nuisance and a sadistic way of expressing their misogynistic intent?  Are they so above the law, that they feel that they have the right to mishandle a woman?  Are they under the remotest of impressions that this is a 'game' where they can just poke to have fun?  Furthermore, is safety and security for women in a country like #India become just mere lines in some moral education dossier? Why are #women supposed to pay the price of development, that is most definitely helping the country progress, but regressing the minds of men in certain sections of society?  Let's just not bring education into the picture, because etiquette...

October 2016 will be quite a month to remember. The opportunity of reconnecting with the sport of tennis, after over an decade through my professional endeavors. What more could I have asked for? I began playing the sport in the mid-1990s at a club in Doha, Qatar. My family was based out of the country in those days, as my father was associated with the Government of Qatar owned Qatar Telecom (Q-Tel). Such was his interest in the likes of Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Thomas Muster and Gustavo Kuerten, that he just couldn't resist the opportunity of indulging in the game and also got the whole extended family involved in it, #women inclusive! Such was the level of craziness with the sport, that we never missed an ATP event in Qatar. During the 1997 Open, I first laid my eyes on Leander Paes and his doubles partner, Mahesh Bhupathi (with whom he would go ahead and forge an amazing partnership, while creating history in the doubles discipline!). Paes and Bhupathi were just starti...

I'll be honest. Video shooting people from various walks of life and capturing moments that highlight their interest level of being associated with a brand is quite a task. While Day-1 of shooting the branding video, had excitement at its' peak, the second day was filled with challenges of a different variety. The aim behind shooting this video, as mentioned earlier was to cover all aspects of the Tata Technologies brand and showcase it to the external world. Day -2 involved shooting at one of Tata Technologies' campuses housed within a sprawling IT park at Hinjawadi, Pune. I'm sure it sounds easy, but boy, were we in for some massive challenges. Multiple security checks, camera equipment scans, high level security cameras hovering around; basically all the elements that could entangle anyone under multiple protocols and procedures. Thanks to some swift thinking last evening, the hassles involved were minimized through e-mails and some telephone calls. Now, wh...

A video and a brand go hand-in-hand. In times like ours, a brand plays on recall value and that's where a video comes in handy. You and me would generally associate a video with the FMCG industry or any product that we can look and feel at. The service industry does come with its' fare share of challenges and enlightening niche engineering services through a video requires the culmination of multiple ideas into a bundle of joy that resonates among every soul associated with the organization. With the view of bringing out the inherent talent and the innovative work that an organization like Tata Technologies involves itself with, a few visionary teams came up with a bright idea of shooting a video that could open to the world about what Tata Technologies possesses and can do to make a difference in the lives of many people that it touches through its services. Make no qualms, that, this is no mean task. Arranging people who have the drive and passion to talk in front of t...

As alpha males (that's what it is called, right?), we tend to always live with a view that whatever decisions we take, will be understood and accepted by people with whom we have amiable relationships. While at certain instances, a male friend might always succumb to certain whims and fancies, thanks to the nature of friendship one maintains. I've always found the woman's perspective a little hard to digest in the beginning, yet on a larger scale it does actually make a lot of sense. Men have always lived to believe that the 'decision making' process belongs to them and whatever they come up with will make sense. The woman's perspective has been always appreciated, yet seldom taken serious. I really do not have to dig for examples to show how and why this happens, considering that I currently live in a country, where a lot of women sacrifice their lives and careers (voluntarily or involuntarily) to become full time mothers (absolutely, nothing wrong here!...