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As India turns the corner towards slowly but surely becoming a developed nation, its middle class has also begun to catch on to a popular “vice” among the more developed countries- Video games.

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A hit Bollywood thriller about a man with short-term amnesia has inspired India’s first 3D videogame, in a country where the animation and gaming industry has been slow to grow but could touch $1.3 billion this year. The PC game, based on the Hindi-language film “Ghajini,” was launched in India in January 2009 and is being marketed worldwide as well by Indian film distributor Eros International PLC.[1] continue

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Abhishek woke up around 9 this morning. He was rather tensed about his impending CREST quiz. I wished him best of luck for it. At 6pm I came to know that it didn’t go too well. Even though we are classmates at IIM Calcutta, I have not seen or spoken to him once in the last 2 weeks. So how do I know every detail of what he has been up to? The answer in one word is – Twitter. continue

A mobile phone has become as ubiquitous as a wrist watch these days; one rarely leaves home without it. However, if asked about the economic benefits of having a mobile phone, most of us wouldn’t look beyond that important conference call we were able to attend while in the car or being able to access voicemail anywhere, anytime. Mobile telephony can have very real economic consequences, above and beyond the value proposition that is offered to the average urban citizen. According to UNCTAD, the growth of mobile teledensity has been shown to have a direct correlation with the growth of GDP per capita in developing countries, which tend to have overwhelmingly high percentages of rural populations. continue

A course assignment turned into this after reading Descartes’ The First Meditation!

When I read Rene Descartes’ On doubt & certainty, one of the first thoughts that came to my mind was: to the mad man is the sane man mad? Are we merely victims of perception so to speak? continue

One fine lazy Sunday afternoon, sometime in the gap between graduation and joining IIM Calcutta, I finally decided to sit down with my copy of Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene, a book which had come highly recommended from my brother. While the concept of the selfish gene as propounded by Dawkins is all well and good, what really made me sit up and take notice was the concept of the Meme. Not only did it sound a lot like my nickname (Mimmie) but it actually unitized the process of idea transfer. continue

Chandrima is the newest member of Strat.in. She graduated in Computer science and engineering from NIT Durgapur and went on to become a part of the 45th Batch at IIM Calcutta. Chandrima is an Aditya Birla scholar,  heads the Consulting Club and is the co-founder of IIM C’s e-journal http://www.jokatimes.com. continue