Past Present ContinuousFinance Fridays Railroads were one of the first disruptive innovations: they changed England from an island of moderate, agrarian towns into a quick, urban, industrialized country. Railroads increased productivity, diminished production costs and encouraged working class customers to purchase factory produced merchandise. Due to their job as the driving innovation of the industrial revolution, the […]
Technology Thursdays We can’t survive for a day without the internet or specifically Google. Instead of saying let me search on the internet, we are often heard saying ‘Let me Google that for you’. Have you ever wondered what it takes to manage the most popular search engine in the world? Have you ever wondered […]
Mythology Mondays In 1933, the Inverness Courier Article wrote how a businessman and his wife saw a massive upheaval along the shore of Loch Ness in Scotland. Upon stopping, they witnessed a massive creature resembling that of a whale. Shocked, they waited for over thirty minutes hoping that the creature would come out again, but […]
Finance Fridays The tulip bubble is a classic example of a financial bubble, and is known to be the world’s first bubble. When the price of something goes up, not because of its intrinsic value, but because people who buy it expect to be able to sell it again at a profit, it can have […]
Social Saturdays “Paise kya ped pe ugte hain?” “Nahi, lekin Spaghetti toh ugti hai”. Yes, what if we told you that your favourite genre of pasta can basically be harvested and grown on trees. No, we are not crazy, after all, the BBC itself said so. In 1957, the BBC telecasted a segment wherein they […]
War Wednesdays Most of us have seen and enjoyed Ranveer Singh’s performance as Baji Rao Peshwa in Bajirao Mastani. While the movie focused more on the love affair and marriage between Baji Rao and Mastani, Baji Rao I is considered to be the most impactful Maratha warrior and minister. The movie’s climax is kind of […]
Mythology Mondays Famadihana, or ‘the turning of the bones’ is a sacred practice followed by some ethnic groups in the African nation of Madagascar every five to seven years. They celebrate this event so that the living can meet their ancestors and it is a moment of extreme joy for them. The Malagasy believe that […]
Technology Thursdays We all know about the importance of saving the work which we have been tirelessly working on and taking backups in case disaster strikes. Pixar’s Toy Story 2 crew learned this lesson the hard way. In 1998, a year before the release of the movie, 90% of the movie was deleted due to […]
Trade Tuesdays Nutella, our favourite chocolate hazelnut spread which records over 12 billion USD in sales and was developed in 1946 by an Italian Pastry Chef’s unparalleled obsession with creating the perfect chocolate solution has roots tracing back to the days of Napoleon Bonaparte and World War 2! In 1806, Napoleon was trying to strengthen […]
Mythology Mondays Navratri is one of the most widely celebrated festivals of India, celebrated over 9 nights (and 10 days) every year in the autumn. Theoretically, there are four seasons of Navratri every year, but the most observed one is the Sharada Navratri, which is celebrated in the honour of Devi Durga. In each part […]
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