Saurabh Jain

My Art of Living

Apr. 13th | Posted by 1 comments
Recently, I have had a decent amount of time to think about life, universe and everything else. Over the past couple of years, plenty of stuff has happened around me which has finally brought me down to this realisation. Please note that this applies to me and me only (though it may also apply to [...]

Whats the point of 3D?

Sep. 3rd | Posted by 1 comments
I just came back from watching Avatar a second time tonight – the special edition version. In my opinion, Avatar is an extremely boring film in which Steven Spielberg James Cameron has spent a good 95% of the reel showing off cool, computer rendered, phosphorescent scenes. Watching it a second time has just solidified this [...]

Why is the state of the Indian education system depressing?

Jul. 31st | Posted by 4 comments
I was in IIT Powai a couple of months ago for a workshop in marketing which lasted a couple of days. As such, we were put up in the in-campus residential suites for guests – which to say the least, blew my mind! The hostel (2 people staying in a room) was nothing less than [...]

The Value of Life …

Jan. 18th | Posted by 4 comments
After a lot of thought and deliberation and musings, I have concluded that: “The value of a life is directly proportional to the number of people it touches in a good way and inversely proportional to the number of people it touches in a negative way.” When you are gone, the summation of the loss [...]

Parking hassles

Jan. 8th | Posted by 3 comments
I have off late started judging businesses depending on their parking policies. No seriously! If you see some of the extreme arm-twisting techniques and prices some of these malls use, it’s unbelievable. Firstly, charging for parking is illegal (I think) and yet everyone does it! But if you think about it, we Indians being the [...]

The thing about life getting back to normal …

Nov. 28th | Posted by 3 comments
This happened the last time – and I bet it will happen again once the dust and smoke settles down. Last time, people commended – how life went back to normal and the resilient nature of the people of Mumbai India. It is actually sad that people approve of how life gets back to normal. [...]
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Startup hiring …

Nov. 23rd | Posted by 1 comments
Yes we’re hiring … There are millions of blogs out there on startup hiring which preach on the dos and don’ts of startup hiring. I’m not trying to preach anything here – just sharing my experience with the first batch of hiring activities that we’ve been upto … Hiring they say – is difficult – [...]

The logic of spending money …

Apr. 7th | Posted by 6 comments
I spent a good hour at Landmark (which is a pretty large bookstore in our city) the other day – having nothing to do. I ended up buying two books even though I entered the shop with the intent of just casually browsing through the store and passing some time … While browsing, I had [...]

When life gives you lemons …

Nov. 4th | Posted by 12 comments
I met up with a friend of mine recently who is working with this big multinational company. Lets assign this company a completely random name – just because I am too lazy and don’t want to keep typing it again and again … Umm .. lets call it TM. Okay … So this friend of [...]

Let there be light …

Sep. 14th | Posted by 6 comments
Today has been a pretty horrendous day actually … We had no electricity for almost 12 hours … From about 12 in the afternoon to about 12 now … It is a pretty sad experience really – something we haven’t faced for a while … There was a time – about a year ago, when [...]
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