Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Google’s spoilt party!

eBay has decided to go offline from the US network of Google’s AdWords, signaling the fading relations between the former partners. AdWords is the major source of revenues for the search engine company. The online auctioneer justifies this move as a continual initiative to look at their marketing across different media channels. Sources however believe that Google’s announcement of Checkout Freedom Party was the primary source of disdain. Competitor eBay Live, apparently launched the same day, is a conference where different sellers on the site meet. Though Google has cancelled the party, the two internet giants are not comfortable with each other’s competing products. A rapprochement is now awaited though.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Conscientious celluloid

“Tigers face a threat worldwide with widespread poaching and the situation is critical in India – home to almost half the world’s surviving tigers. The government, NGOs, conservationists et al have voiced their opinion against the threat but one man is taking help of a unique platform to get the message across – a mainstream thriller.

Ashvin Kumar, who’s Little Terrorist was nominated for an Oscar in 2005, is making The Forest, a thriller set in a tiger sanctuary. “It was a great experience making the film,” says Kumar, “the subject is really close to my heart.” Kumar’s novel attempt eschews the clichéd and oft -treaded path of raising awareness about such issues as poaching through government or privately funded documentaries and the Director believes it might have significant impact.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

“Leader & Mentor”

It was an afternoon appointment – as we struggled through the routine traffic c woes on drenched Mumbai roads for the scheduled meeting with the MD of GoAir. Just a few minutes into the conversation, we realised that the sky was not enough for Jeh. And while we are at it, neither is the numbers of parking slots; nor the infrastructure management services made available at airports across the country. The question that immediately came to mind was that if he was so dissatisfied with the state of affairs in the aviation sector, then why did he enter the space at all?

Interestingly, the answer lies in his travels with his “leader & mentor” Nanaji Deshmukh, with whom Jeh is actively striving to uplift about 2,000 poor villages to become self-sustainable. In Chitrakoot, for example, this altruist businessman has helped set up seed banks, as also financed development of locally-produced organic fertilisers, besides developing a farming R&D centre in Chitrakoot called Krishi Vidya Kendra.

“A lot of traveling was required with Nanaji & my train journey experiences to Chitrakoot moved me to think in 2004 that if my brothers & sisters have to pay such a price to get such a bad service, where’s the service? You bring in your own food & water; it takes hours to reach, there would be a 5-6 hour delay, stops every 2-3 hours. It was ridiculous. So, I said, there is an opportunity,” explains the vibrant 33-year old Jeh, who is possibly one of the youngest business tycoons in the industry.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Converting garbage to gold!

Enter a cramped & dirty alley of the Dharavi slum and you will observe children playing in the midst of filth and squalor and adults busy with their daily chores with equanimity, resigned to their fate. Paradoxically, the 600,000 inhabitants of the world’s worst slum (where over 800 people use one toilet) have no urge to give up their tiny and dingy hovels in-lieu of promises of better living conditions. It would be egregiously wrong to suggest that Dharavi residents have no dreams & aspirations, because if this was true, they would not have owned televisions, mobiles and motorbikes and we wouldn’t have witnessed them yearning to be Bollywood stars like Govinda & Madhuri Dixit. They probably keep their aspirations for a clean living environment under a lid, because they know that land sharks are waiting in the wings to grab their land and give them peanuts in return. With the Maharashtra government once again promising to facelift the slums, the apprehensions of being taken for a ride are once again resurfacing among the majority of residents. In a recent move, the government of Maharashtra has invited bids for the make-over of Dharavi (the slum will be broken down and about 57,000 families residing their will be given apartments of 225 square feet in high rise buildings with modern facilities & sanitation).
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