Past Present ContinuousMythology Mondays Ever since I was a kid, I have been fascinated with Mythology and stories of Hindu Gods. My grandparents used to put me to bed, telling stories which have been passed on to them by their parents and grandparents. One such story was that of Lord Ganesha, and how he got his elephant […]
Social Saturdays Most of us are utterly confused about the origins of communism as a theory and why the hell exactly is Karl Marx and his theory basically a part of most subjects we have ever studied, including Economics, Political Science, History, and Sociology among others. What is further amusing is that he said really […]
Finance Fridays If you invest enough time and energy on the casino floors of Las Vegas, you’ll definitely hear about the Phantom Gambler or the Suitcase Man. Numerous variations of the story have developed over the last four decades about who he was, how much he won and then what happened. In 1951, a previous […]
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 […]
Trade Tuesdays When we speak about Pepsi, military is probably the last word that would come to our mind. We’ve all read stories about how Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been on a Cola War, their brilliant marketing campaigns, but we may not know that for a brief period of time Pepsi had the 6th largest […]
Finance Fridays For every superhero story we read or movie we watch, there is always a dark phase. A phase in which everything seems lost, and it looks like the world is going to end. Well, for one of the world’s largest creators of superhero stories, Marvel, this phase came in the winter of 1996. […]
Mythology Mondays The Iglesia Maradoniana is a religion, created by the fans of the retired Argentine footballer Diego Maradona. The Church of Maradona (yes literally) simply believes that Maradona was the greatest soccer player in the history of the sport and prays to that fact. On June 22 1986, four years after Argentina had failed […]
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 […]
Finance Fridays It has been over a decade since Ramalinga Raju’s Satyam Computers shook the Indian markets. One of India’s fastest growing IT companies, then the 4th largest, disappeared in thin air, with billions in market cap lost. This is the story of India’s Enron. In 2007, Ramalinga Raju was named as the Ernst & […]
Technology Tuesdays Organisations around the world are protecting themselves from data breaches and are always concerned about protecting their information, but they still can’t escape from the hackers. And one of the craziest stories ever was when NASA was hacked in 1999 by a fifteen-year-old boy! Jonathan Jones known to the internet as “cOmrade” (and […]
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