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To tip or not to?

Madras High Court Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy  hearing a P-I-L case made the following observation on 19th Feb 2021: There could be some unruly delivery men who might refuse to complete the delivery on non-payment of tips, just as there are customers who are difficult to handle, the judges emphasised the need to consider the physical pain undergone by the labourers who deliver the cylinders. This made me thinking. In my early years after college, having travelled to western countries for the first time, I was disgusted with these petty bribes (aka tips) in India with…

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In Book Review

Blackberry Town by Chuck Howitt

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With the dominance of Apple and Google on the mobile phone market in the last decade, I feel puzzled and sorry for the two earlier leaders in the space – BlackBerry and Nokia. Both were dominating mobile giants and not…

Events

LIFCO’s Religious Book Fair in the 1980s

My father (Late) Sri T.N.C.Varadan had headed our (then) family publishing business for over five decades from the 1960s to 2013. Founded by Grandfather (Late) Sri V. Krishnaswamy Sarma, The Little Flower Co (1929) aka LIFCO and later managed by his five sons, the book house was famous for its English-English-Tamil Dictionaries. In the initial decades, it was known for its impeccable grammar and quality guide books for Madras (now Tamil Nadu state) School students.  Later, once the state government took over the publishing of textbooks, the dynamics of the business changed and the focus moved on to publishing Dictionaries,…

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In Economy

Indian Budget 2021

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The country (India) and the entire planet is going through once in a century crisis due to the pandemic. The citizens were looking forward to hope and solutions in the Union Budget presented by Hon’ble Finance Minister of India Mrs…