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What 15 litres of water and a bucket tell us about Narayana Murthy’s ‘terror’
By Captain G.R. GOPINATH It is not easy to let go, for any of us. As a parent, even after your daughter is well past her teens, you worry …
How Shreya Ghoshal and Yo Yo Honey Singh got caught in ‘Murthy Angadi’
Meanwhile, at the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka (SICK), also known as Murthy Angadi, it is business as unusual with the “Kshatriya Warrior” having to retreat from the frontlines of …
The bizarre antics of Infosys’ former hotshots just reached another level
Former major domos of the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, also known as #MurthyAngadi, continue to provide an interesting snapshot of “New India”. One of them, a self-confessed Sunday-morning toilet cleaner at …
What Master Murty should tell Narayana Murthy
Vinaashakaale vipareetha buddhi pretty much explains the decision of the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka to send out legal notices to three newspapers, seeking legal damages of Rs 2,000 crore …
One question I’m dying to ask Nandan Nilekani
Like Arvind Kejriwal overshadowed Anna Hazare leaving the old man suitably stumped and stupefied, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has taken a giant leap into electoral politics that should leave his …
Not yet MP, could Nandan Nilekani become PM?
On December 8, as the results of the assembly elections in the four States showed that opinion polls are not always wrong, and as the clamour for clarity on the …
Designed for humans, inspired by nature?*
It certainly does not look like the iPhone or Vertu, so which mobile phone brand does N.R. Narayana Murthy (net worth $1.7 billion) secretly swear by? Could it be Samsung …
Why Adiga’s wants a COO for idli-vada-sambar
Vasudev Adiga, whose parents started the legendary Brahmins’ Coffee Bar in Chamarajpet, wants to take the Adiga’s chain beyond Bangalore, take it beyond the South, and take it to the …
What if Steve Jobs were prime minister of India?
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from San Francisco: India was a key detour in the earthly journey of Steve Jobs. He came to Benares in the early 1970s looking for what most …
3 lessons from the life and times of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the college dropout whose genius turned daunting technology into stylish art, changing the way the world works, lives, thinks and plays, has passed away after a battle with …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Infosys a ‘body shop’?
The supermarket author turned columnist Chetan Bhagat has hit Infosys where it hurts most by calling the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka a “bodyshopping” company, in response to N.R. Narayana …
BCCI, Infosys, Anil Kumble & a silly PR exercise
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: You scratch my back and I will scratch yours, is India’s most famous sport, especially in the upper crust of society. And the country’s richest …
‘Mediocrity is fast becoming a way of life in India’
The “India Story” is a narrative in numbers. GDP growth rates, profits after tax, auto sales spurts, price per square foot, cellphone penetration etc, are all coolly and conveniently flung …
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: At the outset, let me state three things loudly and clearly before the bricks start landing. 1) All things considered, the honesty and integrity …
Think local, act global? Or think global, act local?
Stories of employees of call centres and outsourcing companies in Bangalore working on major Indian holidays just so that their company’s commitments to clients are met, makes news every now …
How come media did not spot the Satyam fraud?
A requiem for Indian business journalism, in the delightfully breathless style of Juan Antonio Giner, founder-director, Innovation International Media: ‘Satyam’, meaning truth. India’s fourth largest software services provider. The darling …
Look, what’s happening at Murthy Angadi #9
Meanwhile, at the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, also known as Murthy Angadi, proof, as if any further proof were required, that the only lesson that sowcar–ru and his shishyas …
Look, what’s happening at Murthy Angadi #8
Meanwhile, at the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, also known as Murthy Angadi, Sowcar-ru‘s main trip in life these days—to lecture the world on how everything in life, including and …
Look, what’s happening at Murthy Angadi #7
Security has been tightened to such an extent at the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka following the periodic “threats” to it, allegedly revealed by the narco-analysis of Lashkar-e-Toiba and other …
Look, what’s happening at Murthy Angadi #6
Meanwhile, India’s most famous investigative journalist reports to churumuri that the malikaru of the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka also known as Murthy Angadi is being presented to very swish …
Look, what’s happening at Murthy Angadi #5
Meanwhile, at the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, also known as Murthy Angadi, there was an embarrassing incident involving sowcar-ru recently. Sowcar-ru, who lectures anybody who cycles by of the …
Look, What’s Happening at Murthy Angadi #4
Meanwhile, at the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, also known as Murthy Angadi, there has been a major reshuffle. Kis Baay Dasa, the pattinga who used to sit at the …
When Miss Karnataka tried to be Miss World
P.M. VIJENDRA RAO writes: I am from a Bangalore which was Mysore-ish. I grew up in Shankarapuram. Ranga Rao Road was where we lived. To this day I don't know …
Look, what’s happening at Murthy Angadi #3
A middle-level management type was waiting at the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, also known as Murthy Angadi, to take the lift to his third-floor office. The middle-level management type …
Look, What’s Happening at Murthy Angadi #2
The tremendous response to the first episode of ‘Look, what’s happening at Murthy Angadi’ suggests just one thing. That there is enormous interest in the Sikkapatte Important Company of Karnataka, …