Posts Tagged ‘people’
Team Meetings and the Mobile
Two minutes into most team meetings at the office, you get to know what is going to happen in the next fifty-eight minutes and so tend to lose interest in the proceedings. So what do you do? Unless you are the mobile-fiddling type, you really have no choice but to gaze on at your fellow-attendees. […]
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Mindless Civility
There’s this 3-minute journey in the office van between the campus gate and our office building that we all get to do daily. Twice. To many, it’s just something that’s there to lead them on to the next stage – signing in & beginning their workday in the mornings or hopping onto their next mode […]
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The Top 3 irritants on the road
3) People who abruptly halt in the middle of the road in front of temples or other places of worship. Worse, you are expected to understand that as the cause is a noble one, one of a higher spiritual order, unremarkably quotidian affairs like a traffic snarl ought not to be considered. After all, what’s […]
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Cricket beyond India
I love it when a high-quality non-Indian test match is on, just like the ongoing West Indies vs Pakistan. No frenzied patriotism on display, no reluctant interest shown. It’s here as if the match isn’t at all happening. Sometimes, you wonder if it’s somehow contrived such that you’re the only one who’s privy to the […]
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The Straight Bat 