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Indian restaurants and service charge 28 Jan 2013 | 12:24 pm
More and more Indian restaurants charge a “service charge” on their bills these days. It’s usually somewhere in the 5-10% range, unless you’re in Delhi, where 10% is almost standard. Being in the F&B ...
My Ford India road trip to Hyderabad 9 Aug 2012 | 02:53 pm
Greetings, citizens. This blog post is to tell you about a road trip I’m undertaking from 10-15 August, 2012, sponsored by Ford India. Since I’ll probably be posting more than a few tweets about it, I...
Air India to launch new branding and ad campaign – “mother’s love” new positioning 13 Sep 2011 | 10:01 pm
(Special to MadMan’s Web) India’s national airline, Air India, which has long been criticized for its aging fleet and even older flight attendants, has finally got the message. In a press conference y...
Airtel announces new Gold and Platinum support plans for customers 30 Aug 2011 | 09:43 pm
(Special to MadMan’s Web) Bharti Airtel Ltd., which had already declared its vision as “By 2015 airtel will be the most loved brand, enriching the lives of millions”, today announced an accelerated pl...
Of new restaurants and restaurant critics 24 Feb 2011 | 07:56 pm
Vikram Doctor points me to an interesting couple of blogs posts, one from a restaurant chef, and the other from a restaurant reviewer. The first post is by Alex Sanchez, a young chef from the US who’s...
How not to design a flyover 5 Jul 2006 | 08:02 pm
The problems with Bangalore’s infrastructure are well-known. Everybody knows we have pathetic pot-holed roads, more traffic than the roads can handle, and an administration that talks through the wron...
New outsourcing opportunity for India 13 Mar 2006 | 03:27 am
(Special to MadMan’s Web) Move over call centres and data processing BPOs. The future of outsourcing belongs to another industry, if Indian Minister for Commerce, Kamal Nath, is to be believed. Accord...
Tips on making a radical career shift 14 Feb 2006 | 11:13 pm
Today’s issue of Economic Times has a cover story on people who made drastic career shifts in their “High Flier” supplement. I’m one of the people featured in the story (how I wish I could actually fi...
Bad infrastructure saves lives: Karnataka Chief Minister 7 Jan 2006 | 08:15 pm
(Special to MadMan’s Web) Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh today lashed out at the media for harping incessantly about the poor infrastructure in Bangalore. Singh said that the media should paint...
Sting operation on MadMan shows he is a fraud 10 Aug 2005 | 11:31 am
It seems I’m a cheat, folks. I supposedly pretend to be a “veteran blogger” when I’m not. Or at least so says Rohan Pinto in this brilliant piece of investigative journalism. (Read it at http://blog.r...
