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Look around in the world of internet, motion media or print media you will realize that Kolkata Knight Riders is the most popular team in the competition. Never the winners or the best team on paper, KKR is able to create a buzz amongst the fans – there is something about the team which creates a lot of excitement. After winning the first two matches of IPL season 3, KKR has yet created more things to talk about. KKR is not the costliest team, infact they come second last when valued in price but everyone loves to talk about them. continue

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Recently Mumbai witnessed yet another gimmick of exchange of words, high intensity drama and its fall when three of the icons of the field of Bollywood, Maharashtra Politics & National Power confront each other – Shah Rukh Khan, Shiv Sena and Rahul Gandhi. We would be assessing the positives negatives and strengths of each of these confrontations. continue

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (or Maruti Udhyog as you may know it) was the first company in India to mass-produce and sell more than a million cars. In India, Maruti Udhyog Limited (MUL) was established in February 1981, and the actual production of cars commenced in 1983. Maruti is largely credited for having brought in an automobile revolution to India. continue

In the following article I have mentioned a unique socio-educational movement supported by some of the brightest minds of India – Teach for India. With the motto of “Teach Lead Transform”, Teach for India (referred to as TFI hereafter) aims to narrow the educational gap in India by making ends meet, the needy children and the young teachers. They give the educated minds to enlighten the underprivileged. It is a unique movement that will create ripples in the not-so-equal education scenario in India. continue

This post is a first of its kind at strat.in, here we know more about GREEN BUILDINGS from an expert in the field, Akanksha Sharma. In the following conversations below with me, Akanksha talks about Green Building, their scope in future and STRATEGY from an Indian perspective! continue

Is Microsoft back in internet search with the new web search service BING?

The biggest buzz in the search/web/internet domains from the past couple of days has been Microsoft Bing! It has been deemed by some as better than Google, by others as comparable to google and by a few the engine which will dethrone Google. I will give such big claims a rest and in this post I will emphasize on how BING can create a bang in the search market space and bring Microsoft live again in the market! continue

Grooveshark is a new exciting P2P legal music streaming engine from which one can listen to, share and buy most of the popular music available on earth. Grooveshark also allows artists and record labels to promote themselves through the application with both advertisement and paying for listens from Grooveshark users. All data and analytics relating to an artist (or group of artists) are freely available to promoters, such as the number of times their content has been listened to, along with demographic and geographic information about the listeners. continue

China and India have always been compared; being the two most populous nations with diverse cultures and being neighbors on the map, they are expected to be similar, but in reality they are starkly different – be it economically, socially or politically. In this blog, I will share and extend some of the ideas of Prof Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, in his book Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours. In the book, Prof Khanna compares the millions of budding entrepreneurs in India and China; and how the economic, social, political situations in India and China affect its growth, culture and entrepreneurship ecosystem. continue