In a sensational revelation, Nicolos Mahut has accepted that the marathon match was staged by the two players in order to attain fame and immortality. After being interrogated for nearly 3 hours by the London police, a very emotional Mahut broke down and accepted the crime. He said “I am a bloody court no 18 player. A court number 18 player lives at court no 18 and dies at court no 18”. He almost broke down saying “I have been a professional for 10 years now and nobody knows me. I come here, win one or two matches at outside courts and nobody sees. Then sometimes they throw me against Federer, Nadal or roddick on center court and everybody marvels at my haplessness”. While coming to Wimbledon, my 5 year old kid wished me “Dad! I hope you atleast win one match this time”. I was absolutely shattered to hear this and when I learnt that John Isner my good outside court friend was my opponent I devised this plan. I told Isner that we could become legends: greater than Federer or Roddick and he acquiesced. He agreed on the condition that I would ultimately let him win.
The British Police reported that the investigation was done because of allegations made by an unknown Pakistani cricketer Rashid Latif, who is an absolute expert on match fixing in sports. “I saw the match on television and immediately had the feeling this is not right. How can they hit so many aces in the 5th set? After having investigated match fixing for the past 15 years in cricket, it didn’t take me long to understand the conspiracy. I immediately called my friend Danish Kaneria, who has good contacts with the British police and they reacted instantly.” Latif said.
A visibly triumphant Latif who could be nominated for an OBE said in a press conference “ I played the game in a certain way. I walked every time I got out, never appealed unnecessarily and always played within the spirit of the game. I want to see all sports being run the same way. I would treat this as a very small victory. I am not going to keep quiet until all sports are set free from corruption. I hope they start respecting me more in my own country after this episode.”
PS: The post is obviously a work of fiction :-)
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
10 Reasons to support the English Football team
England reached a new nadir yesterday. But still I feel it’s a smart idea to support them. Here are a few top reasons why we should continue to support England at the WC –
1. If they win, you are entertained. If they lose, the british media ensures that you are super entertained.
2. If you watch their matches as a neutral, you will get so bored that you will doze off. Hence better support the three lions.
3. Watch the English team very closely. Their resemblance to the Indian cricket team is uncanny. Highly paid non performing superstars. Infact there are quite a few man to man parallels. For every Wayne Rooney we have Yuvraj Singh (angry young men), For every Frank Lampard we have Suresh Raina (Brilliant in the local league, pussycats abroad), For every Robert Green we have Ravindra Jadeja (Poor single error scape goats), For every Wayne bridge we have …(Well there are some differences of course) but I am sure Virat Kohli will suffer a similar fate.
4. The parallels don’t end here. Football is not the national sport of England, just like cricket is not the national sport of India. The people though are as madly in love with football and hence are equally tormented after some defeat. Thus we should have sympathy for the English players. Actually the English Football team is a fair reflection of the Indian cricket team in 100 years time when even the IPL will hardly have any Indian players playing.
5. When you look at Emile Heskey, you realize no matter how pathetic you have been throughout the year, no matter even if your local club doesn’t consider you good enough for a start, there is always someone somewhere who loves you and respects you. In heskey’s case, it is Capello.
6. No matter which side you support, goal keeping errors are always fun to watch and become a part of history. Some stupid game show might run a quiz years later asking you what happened next. Thus you can win some realy bounty in 10 years time, thanks to Robert Green, David James and Paul Robinson.
7. Watching them Chelsea fans would realize Rooney does not have such a great first touch, Man U fans would realize Lampard misses more shots than he scores, Arsenal fans realize Lennon should be sprinter instead of a footballer, Liverpool fans would find out that there are no evertonians in the entire squad. Classic case of finding out that grass was greener when you were on the other side. These points will give you bragging points in the most important EPL battle next year.
PS: Loyal fans cannot find out mistakes in their own players. I still find lampard and terry are playing at their best ever.
8. Even if they lose every match, each match is a story of David Vs Goliath, giant killing action. Such stories are always exciting to know. It inspires us and fills us with a dream that one day even the Indian football team will beat the English.
9. There are loads of cute, pretty blondes crying in the crowd. Just in case you happen to be on the ground you might want to lend a shoulder. For girls, you can see David Beckham cry.
10. Perhaps the most important lesson you learn watching the English team is philosophical in nature. Higher wages don’t necessarily produce winning results. This gives the HR a new excuse to start a new team building campaign crap which would mean a paid holiday for the entire office is just around the corner.
1. If they win, you are entertained. If they lose, the british media ensures that you are super entertained.
2. If you watch their matches as a neutral, you will get so bored that you will doze off. Hence better support the three lions.
3. Watch the English team very closely. Their resemblance to the Indian cricket team is uncanny. Highly paid non performing superstars. Infact there are quite a few man to man parallels. For every Wayne Rooney we have Yuvraj Singh (angry young men), For every Frank Lampard we have Suresh Raina (Brilliant in the local league, pussycats abroad), For every Robert Green we have Ravindra Jadeja (Poor single error scape goats), For every Wayne bridge we have …(Well there are some differences of course) but I am sure Virat Kohli will suffer a similar fate.
4. The parallels don’t end here. Football is not the national sport of England, just like cricket is not the national sport of India. The people though are as madly in love with football and hence are equally tormented after some defeat. Thus we should have sympathy for the English players. Actually the English Football team is a fair reflection of the Indian cricket team in 100 years time when even the IPL will hardly have any Indian players playing.
5. When you look at Emile Heskey, you realize no matter how pathetic you have been throughout the year, no matter even if your local club doesn’t consider you good enough for a start, there is always someone somewhere who loves you and respects you. In heskey’s case, it is Capello.
6. No matter which side you support, goal keeping errors are always fun to watch and become a part of history. Some stupid game show might run a quiz years later asking you what happened next. Thus you can win some realy bounty in 10 years time, thanks to Robert Green, David James and Paul Robinson.
7. Watching them Chelsea fans would realize Rooney does not have such a great first touch, Man U fans would realize Lampard misses more shots than he scores, Arsenal fans realize Lennon should be sprinter instead of a footballer, Liverpool fans would find out that there are no evertonians in the entire squad. Classic case of finding out that grass was greener when you were on the other side. These points will give you bragging points in the most important EPL battle next year.
PS: Loyal fans cannot find out mistakes in their own players. I still find lampard and terry are playing at their best ever.
8. Even if they lose every match, each match is a story of David Vs Goliath, giant killing action. Such stories are always exciting to know. It inspires us and fills us with a dream that one day even the Indian football team will beat the English.
9. There are loads of cute, pretty blondes crying in the crowd. Just in case you happen to be on the ground you might want to lend a shoulder. For girls, you can see David Beckham cry.
10. Perhaps the most important lesson you learn watching the English team is philosophical in nature. Higher wages don’t necessarily produce winning results. This gives the HR a new excuse to start a new team building campaign crap which would mean a paid holiday for the entire office is just around the corner.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Cluttered ppt is an awesome ppt
We all have heard from our managers (lecturers) the idea to make a good presentation is to keep it simple clean and in bullet points. In MBA jargon, all bullet points no gas. However, the above is only true if you had no other work and hence prepared in extensive detail. But, modern hip-hop MBA’s like us don’t have time to spend on intricate details. And hence the small bullet point presentations are useless.
The art of making a great ppt lies in impressing upon the audience that you have greater knowledge of the subject that is being discussed. For this absolute knowledge about the audience is of paramount importance. Your senior manager (or lecturer) is generally a workaholic, sleep deprived, sex deprived gentleman with a weak eyesight. It’s important to exploit all the above weaknesses to create a classy presentation designed to kill. There is no greater presenter than one who can put his evaluator to sleep. Since all these evaluators are themselves hot shot MBA’s with largely inflated ego’s, nobody would ever accept the fact that he slept and hence would have no option but to appreciate the presentation. Here are few brilliant insights on how to become a great presenter–
1. If you are a pretty girl or your group has one, start with a deliberate technical glitch which looks genuine. For example taking a random.swf file to a place where you are absolutely sure that no flash player is in sight. The teary eyed female would arouse sympathy. The sympathy would immediately turn to appreciation when you bring to notice that you had the brilliant foresight and had kept a somewhat cruder ppt form ready. This way you will create an initial impression even before starting.
PS : In case you are ugly fat male, do not even try this stunt. You would arouse extreme anger instead of sympathy and your presentation is ruined at the first instance
2. Take a note pad with you. The notepad would basically have gibberish but it should seem you have made presentation notes based on some brilliant research. Insist that the light be kept open so that you can read it out. This would mean that your workaholic boss with a weak eyesight would not be able to read your presentation.
3. Make the first slide as cluttered as possible. Put all kinds of smart art, weird figures, random charts copy pasted. Refer all of the material. Curve arrows going from top to bottom work best to confuse the tired mind of the evaluator and would put him off to sleep. Random charts that are copy pasted should be barely visible from the place where the evaluator is sitting.
4. The second slide should only have figures. You can copy paste the balance sheet of the biggest company which is remotely associated with your topic. If you are the king of the freeriders, you can also put random data like CIP = 100% which is loosely interpreted as Chutiaps in this presentation is equal to 100%. Nobody would ask you to explain such data so chill.
5. All the evaluators were born in the time of Shakespeare and hence are unaware of the latest colloquials and language. Throw in as many such terms as possible. Here, your daily viewing of HIMHM, Friends, Prison break, BBT would help. For example, in a class ppt a dialogue like “ According to the great Barney Stinson, Lorenzo Van matthean is the most awesome” would drive your classmates to splits. Your professor who would have no idea who Barney Stinson is, would give a sheepish smile assuming Stinson to be some modern day philosopher, physicist etc. He would act casual and wont dare to ask who is being referred to. Other quotable characters are Sheldon cooper of BBT and Joey of Friends. Football Fans can try geeky names like Bixente Lizarazu, Ole Gunner Soljskaer or Van goner hasselink.
6. Never ever mention any word that is remotely linked to the subject expertise of the evaluator. These sex deprived workaholic’s only get orgasms after listening to such things and would rape you within the next two minutes.
7. Keep a stop watch to repeat the following lines religiously after every 90 seconds –
• For Marketing ppts – “Providing customer value is the most important. Customer is the king”
• For Finance ppts – “Providing shareholder value is the most important. Shareholder is the king”
• For Consulting ppts – “We did a thorough analysis. Consultant is the king. ”
• For HR ppts – “Providing people value is the most important. People are the king”
8. Give 3-4 random solutions to the problem that was given. Since we are awesome MBA’s, these solutions would come straight to your mind when you hear the problem. Dedicate the next two months(entire duration of the project) to justify these solutions. Find out (google) exactly the same number of advantages and disadvantages to all. No less no more. In case, your audience was not confused before it will be now.
After sufficiently confusing the audience, open the forum for questions. Only one question would arise “So what is your final recommendation”. Pick any one, state its advantage and then say but in case (Now return to point 8 and get into an infinite loop). Finish it by picking the one which would have the following characteristics –
1. In case you are a sales guy, you will get the sale
2. In case you are a consult, your company will be hired
3. In case you are a fin guy, the least amount of work will be given to you.
4. In case you are an HR guy, the solution which results in your increase of salary should be chosen
This my dear friends will make you an awesome presenter.
The art of making a great ppt lies in impressing upon the audience that you have greater knowledge of the subject that is being discussed. For this absolute knowledge about the audience is of paramount importance. Your senior manager (or lecturer) is generally a workaholic, sleep deprived, sex deprived gentleman with a weak eyesight. It’s important to exploit all the above weaknesses to create a classy presentation designed to kill. There is no greater presenter than one who can put his evaluator to sleep. Since all these evaluators are themselves hot shot MBA’s with largely inflated ego’s, nobody would ever accept the fact that he slept and hence would have no option but to appreciate the presentation. Here are few brilliant insights on how to become a great presenter–
1. If you are a pretty girl or your group has one, start with a deliberate technical glitch which looks genuine. For example taking a random.swf file to a place where you are absolutely sure that no flash player is in sight. The teary eyed female would arouse sympathy. The sympathy would immediately turn to appreciation when you bring to notice that you had the brilliant foresight and had kept a somewhat cruder ppt form ready. This way you will create an initial impression even before starting.
PS : In case you are ugly fat male, do not even try this stunt. You would arouse extreme anger instead of sympathy and your presentation is ruined at the first instance
2. Take a note pad with you. The notepad would basically have gibberish but it should seem you have made presentation notes based on some brilliant research. Insist that the light be kept open so that you can read it out. This would mean that your workaholic boss with a weak eyesight would not be able to read your presentation.
3. Make the first slide as cluttered as possible. Put all kinds of smart art, weird figures, random charts copy pasted. Refer all of the material. Curve arrows going from top to bottom work best to confuse the tired mind of the evaluator and would put him off to sleep. Random charts that are copy pasted should be barely visible from the place where the evaluator is sitting.
4. The second slide should only have figures. You can copy paste the balance sheet of the biggest company which is remotely associated with your topic. If you are the king of the freeriders, you can also put random data like CIP = 100% which is loosely interpreted as Chutiaps in this presentation is equal to 100%. Nobody would ask you to explain such data so chill.
5. All the evaluators were born in the time of Shakespeare and hence are unaware of the latest colloquials and language. Throw in as many such terms as possible. Here, your daily viewing of HIMHM, Friends, Prison break, BBT would help. For example, in a class ppt a dialogue like “ According to the great Barney Stinson, Lorenzo Van matthean is the most awesome” would drive your classmates to splits. Your professor who would have no idea who Barney Stinson is, would give a sheepish smile assuming Stinson to be some modern day philosopher, physicist etc. He would act casual and wont dare to ask who is being referred to. Other quotable characters are Sheldon cooper of BBT and Joey of Friends. Football Fans can try geeky names like Bixente Lizarazu, Ole Gunner Soljskaer or Van goner hasselink.
6. Never ever mention any word that is remotely linked to the subject expertise of the evaluator. These sex deprived workaholic’s only get orgasms after listening to such things and would rape you within the next two minutes.
7. Keep a stop watch to repeat the following lines religiously after every 90 seconds –
• For Marketing ppts – “Providing customer value is the most important. Customer is the king”
• For Finance ppts – “Providing shareholder value is the most important. Shareholder is the king”
• For Consulting ppts – “We did a thorough analysis. Consultant is the king. ”
• For HR ppts – “Providing people value is the most important. People are the king”
8. Give 3-4 random solutions to the problem that was given. Since we are awesome MBA’s, these solutions would come straight to your mind when you hear the problem. Dedicate the next two months(entire duration of the project) to justify these solutions. Find out (google) exactly the same number of advantages and disadvantages to all. No less no more. In case, your audience was not confused before it will be now.
After sufficiently confusing the audience, open the forum for questions. Only one question would arise “So what is your final recommendation”. Pick any one, state its advantage and then say but in case (Now return to point 8 and get into an infinite loop). Finish it by picking the one which would have the following characteristics –
1. In case you are a sales guy, you will get the sale
2. In case you are a consult, your company will be hired
3. In case you are a fin guy, the least amount of work will be given to you.
4. In case you are an HR guy, the solution which results in your increase of salary should be chosen
This my dear friends will make you an awesome presenter.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Tips to survive the Sena, MNS and Mumbai (Only for Delhites)
My Bschool life is over (hopefully) and I have decided to move on to some mature(read serious) writings from here on. Naah, just kidding!!
I will have to move to Mumbai, and considering my long held apprehensions of living in any city outside Delhi my next few entries might be dominated by the considerable switch that is going to happen in my life soon. Many of my friends from Delhi also have to shift to Mumbai and I thought being a Maharastrian who has lived 24 years of his life in Delhi I can give a lot of gyaan on the Do’s and Dont’s. Also there is the growing threat of MNS and Shiv Sena which is really threatening my North Indian friends. So here are a few pieces of advice from the great one to all my unfortunate friends who will have to live in the so called financial capital of the country.
1. Never attend a Maharastrian wedding. They are devoid of any music, DJ, Paneer, Ice cream and of course no drinks or chicken (I am very proud of the last two). You will be served a lavish meal of "Khichdi" in the lunch hours so that you are well prepared for the sumptuous dinner where the sweet dish is rasgulla. The only difference is that the rasgulla is missing. Yes right, it’s just the gravy (or whatever it is called). They call it Sudharas. Trust me; even we maharastrians are not very proud of it.
2. It is considered impolite to refer to people’s sisters and mothers in a casual conversation. I am obviously referring to the Bc and Mc’s we use so casually in any conversation. You are not supposed to start a conversation with the usual "Aur C****!! Kya haal hai". Even your local friends will take offence.
3. It’s ok to ask address or time to any by standing girl. She would not freak out or assume it to be creepy. If she tells you the address with a smile on her face, don’t get any foolish ideas. It does not mean she is interested. Also it is perfectly normal for single girls to be roaming outside at 10 -11 PM in the night. Don’t assume them to be ……(you know what).
4. Never address a stranger as “Bhaiyya”. Address an elder person as “Kaka” and others as “Dada”. Yes the same dada they use in Kolkata.
This one requires the maximum practice for a Delhite.
5. Maharastrians would not understand the difference between a Punjabi and a Sardar. Don’t try to explain it to them. It is exactly similar to explaining a North Indian the difference between a Tamil and a Telugu.
6. Marathi is derived from Sanskrit and is written in the same script as Hindi. It is thus much closer to Hindi than Punjabi. Therefore, Maharastrians pronunciations of Hindi words is much more refined and correct. No matter how strong your beliefs that the North Indian punjabinised versions like (Virender, Surender, Narender) are the right way to be pronounced, it is the Maharastrian version (Virendra, Surendra, Narendra) which is right one. So think very hard before you make fun of somebody’s pronunciation.
7. You can kiss goodbye to driving at speeds of above 60KmPH or enjoying a walk on an avenue. Mumbai does not have any roads wide enough to support any such leisure activities.
8. Mumbai local is a place where you can forget all the politeness and courteousness and be what we people are best at. Behaviour wise people are at their worst here. Also leaving your handkerchief on a seat means it becomes your seat. Don’t try to mess up with anybody and accept the rule.
9. Dadar is the headquarters of Shiv Sena. I know how strongly we feel about issues related to nationality and regional biases but it is perfectly advisable to reserve your opinion to yourself at this place. Obviously, it’s a different matter if you want to be a martyr or an India TV Case Study for a day.
10. If a taxi wallah tells you that he will charge by the meter, don’t be suspicious. In Mumbai, taxi and auto meters work perfectly fine and are not tampered with. To get into a taxi, you would have to stand in a line. Yes its correct, a line. And there would be no security guard to maintain the line but yet you have to follow it. It is not macho to break a line and girly to stand in one.
11. Mumbaikar’s favourite pastime is to malign Delhi for absolutely everything. Let them have their fun because they don’t know what they are doing. Also, its better to keep quite in an alien city. But yes, if they criticize the Metro please be a proud Delhite and give it back to them
12. Abhijeet Sawant, Vaishali Samant and Avdhoot Gupte are more popular singers than Daler Mehendi etc etc (I used etc because even I cannot remember any other Punjabi singer). And nobody would know who Gurdas Maan is.
13. There is always a young teenager in the Mumbai cricket team who everybody believes would be the next Sachin Tendulkar. It hasn’t happened in the past 15 years and is not going to happen ever. But respect the opinion. Sachin is GOD in the entire country and cricket is a religion. However in Mumbai, the frenzy is at another level. The madness is incomparable to anything else. Even if you reach here as a cricket virgin, you will become cricket crazy in two months flat.
14. Despite all the advice I give, in case MNS takes your case and beats you up and I am standing next to you - Don’t expect any help because we Maharastrians are normally very peaceful people and I would not like to get my hands dirty. I would just say I told you so:-)
15. Read Shantaram. It is a much better guide than this blog.
PS: I know 3-4 years down the line, Point number 1 is going to give me a lot of trouble. So I apologize to whomsoever it may concern right here right now.
PS2: The above was written based on only 2 months of internship experience. So expect large number of updates once I actually land up in the maximum city.
PS3: I have decided I am going to like Mumbai :-)
I will have to move to Mumbai, and considering my long held apprehensions of living in any city outside Delhi my next few entries might be dominated by the considerable switch that is going to happen in my life soon. Many of my friends from Delhi also have to shift to Mumbai and I thought being a Maharastrian who has lived 24 years of his life in Delhi I can give a lot of gyaan on the Do’s and Dont’s. Also there is the growing threat of MNS and Shiv Sena which is really threatening my North Indian friends. So here are a few pieces of advice from the great one to all my unfortunate friends who will have to live in the so called financial capital of the country.
1. Never attend a Maharastrian wedding. They are devoid of any music, DJ, Paneer, Ice cream and of course no drinks or chicken (I am very proud of the last two). You will be served a lavish meal of "Khichdi" in the lunch hours so that you are well prepared for the sumptuous dinner where the sweet dish is rasgulla. The only difference is that the rasgulla is missing. Yes right, it’s just the gravy (or whatever it is called). They call it Sudharas. Trust me; even we maharastrians are not very proud of it.
2. It is considered impolite to refer to people’s sisters and mothers in a casual conversation. I am obviously referring to the Bc and Mc’s we use so casually in any conversation. You are not supposed to start a conversation with the usual "Aur C****!! Kya haal hai". Even your local friends will take offence.
3. It’s ok to ask address or time to any by standing girl. She would not freak out or assume it to be creepy. If she tells you the address with a smile on her face, don’t get any foolish ideas. It does not mean she is interested. Also it is perfectly normal for single girls to be roaming outside at 10 -11 PM in the night. Don’t assume them to be ……(you know what).
4. Never address a stranger as “Bhaiyya”. Address an elder person as “Kaka” and others as “Dada”. Yes the same dada they use in Kolkata.
This one requires the maximum practice for a Delhite.
5. Maharastrians would not understand the difference between a Punjabi and a Sardar. Don’t try to explain it to them. It is exactly similar to explaining a North Indian the difference between a Tamil and a Telugu.
6. Marathi is derived from Sanskrit and is written in the same script as Hindi. It is thus much closer to Hindi than Punjabi. Therefore, Maharastrians pronunciations of Hindi words is much more refined and correct. No matter how strong your beliefs that the North Indian punjabinised versions like (Virender, Surender, Narender) are the right way to be pronounced, it is the Maharastrian version (Virendra, Surendra, Narendra) which is right one. So think very hard before you make fun of somebody’s pronunciation.
7. You can kiss goodbye to driving at speeds of above 60KmPH or enjoying a walk on an avenue. Mumbai does not have any roads wide enough to support any such leisure activities.
8. Mumbai local is a place where you can forget all the politeness and courteousness and be what we people are best at. Behaviour wise people are at their worst here. Also leaving your handkerchief on a seat means it becomes your seat. Don’t try to mess up with anybody and accept the rule.
9. Dadar is the headquarters of Shiv Sena. I know how strongly we feel about issues related to nationality and regional biases but it is perfectly advisable to reserve your opinion to yourself at this place. Obviously, it’s a different matter if you want to be a martyr or an India TV Case Study for a day.
10. If a taxi wallah tells you that he will charge by the meter, don’t be suspicious. In Mumbai, taxi and auto meters work perfectly fine and are not tampered with. To get into a taxi, you would have to stand in a line. Yes its correct, a line. And there would be no security guard to maintain the line but yet you have to follow it. It is not macho to break a line and girly to stand in one.
11. Mumbaikar’s favourite pastime is to malign Delhi for absolutely everything. Let them have their fun because they don’t know what they are doing. Also, its better to keep quite in an alien city. But yes, if they criticize the Metro please be a proud Delhite and give it back to them
12. Abhijeet Sawant, Vaishali Samant and Avdhoot Gupte are more popular singers than Daler Mehendi etc etc (I used etc because even I cannot remember any other Punjabi singer). And nobody would know who Gurdas Maan is.
13. There is always a young teenager in the Mumbai cricket team who everybody believes would be the next Sachin Tendulkar. It hasn’t happened in the past 15 years and is not going to happen ever. But respect the opinion. Sachin is GOD in the entire country and cricket is a religion. However in Mumbai, the frenzy is at another level. The madness is incomparable to anything else. Even if you reach here as a cricket virgin, you will become cricket crazy in two months flat.
14. Despite all the advice I give, in case MNS takes your case and beats you up and I am standing next to you - Don’t expect any help because we Maharastrians are normally very peaceful people and I would not like to get my hands dirty. I would just say I told you so:-)
15. Read Shantaram. It is a much better guide than this blog.
PS: I know 3-4 years down the line, Point number 1 is going to give me a lot of trouble. So I apologize to whomsoever it may concern right here right now.
PS2: The above was written based on only 2 months of internship experience. So expect large number of updates once I actually land up in the maximum city.
PS3: I have decided I am going to like Mumbai :-)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Why I love the IPL!!!!
After writing a few posts on MBA and student life, I am back to writing about the topic I love most – Cricket. I have read a large number of cartoons and blogs belittling the IPL and its overboard spending. Although sometimes even I feel that I am watching very little cricket in between all the adds but yet I love the IPL for various reasons that I wish to present here. You are entitled to your own opinion, but as I always say this is my space and I can write whatever I want to –
1 Purists say it will kill Test Cricket. I feel it is akin to makers of Rolls Royce being worried about Tata Nano’s launch. As any marketing student would tell you, Nike is never worried about counterfeits because a person buying a counterfeit will never buy an original. Similarly, a person who just loves the slam bam and glamour of TT cricket would never appreciate Rahul Dravid’s defense. Infact, TT would help in separating the masses from the classes. I personally absolutely hate watching cricket with ignorant experts who feel that chasing 400 in a test match on a last day is a walk in the park because you require only 4 RPO. Its great for the game if such people stay away from Test cricket. The biggest success of the IPL is that it has brought new viewers to the game. Thus it is only increasing the reach of the game we all love. Test cricket will stay, supported only by those who really understand the game and want to see a battle between bat and ball and not just boom boom afridi.
2. I love the IPL for the sake of the Rajat Bhatia’s & Mithun Manhas’s of the world. These are players who have toiled for years in the Indian domestic circuit playing in spite of empty stands, immense heat and dirty politics in return of no recognition and very little money. Probably, its only the love of the game, passion and a hope that drives them. Hope of recognition and success. Some people would argue that these players are unsuccessful and hence do not deserve this recognition. Considering that every young boy born in India after 1983 has atleast once in his life dreamt of becoming a cricket player and only a handful of them are lucky enough to play in the domestic circuit, these players are super successful. If cricket was like a CAT exam, they would be in the high 99.9 percentile zone. They surely deserved more credit than they used to get. For the sake of those players who have given it all in the domestic scene but are not able to make it to the international level because of luck or little lack of talent I love the IPL.
3. The earliest memory I have of cricket is England’s Tour of India in 1993 famous for a double hundred scored by a certain Vinod Kambli. The English wicketkeeper on that tour was some guy called blackey, because the main wicket keeper Alec Stewart simply refused to tour India. It was a norm during those days. Loads of English players had refused earlier tours either feigning injuries or citing personal reasons. These were the pre terrorism days and security was not an issue. Its amazing to think that the same country’s team decided to continue with the tour after one of the worst terrorist attacks in the world hit India. Quite obviously it was in the name of “WORLD PEACE”
And its not only the English. Australia’s great ambassador of peace who wants to resolve the racist attacks in Australia, ordered specially made food from Australia as late as the 98 tour. A well known joke running during those times was that Australians suffer from food poisoning just after hearing that the food that they were served was washed in tap water.
I am sure the same process is still followed. But suddenly, India is the place to play cricket. It is the center of the world. They say its because of the passion and the crowd support. Its baloney!! Indian crowds were as passionate in 80’s or the 90’s. Only one thing has changed and we all know what it is and i love the IPL for bringing out the splurge in the open and attracting the materialistic foreigners to my country.
4. Richie Benaud in an interview quoted a young Australian batsman whose ultimate dream was to play in the IPL. He did not mention the baggie green. He wanted to play the IPL. Sign of the future perhaps!!
Because it sells million dollar dreams to many young cricketers around the world and particularly in India, I love the IPL.
5. Some boards feel that it will destroy the game in other countries because the boards don’t have enough money to keep their players and they would go into retirement to play in the IPL. Why should India be worried about the same. All the other Indian sports have suffered because of the exact same reason, and it is not India’s prerogative to look after other boards and their concerns. We are a nation that is large enough and strong enough to run our own sport, even if others suddenly stop playing. If baseball can have a world series played in a single country, cricket can also have an all powerful league.
India has ruled the game of cricket for the past ten years and IPL is just a show of strength. Unfortunately, our team has not been the best in the world and hence we needed another kind of reminder to the world that it is India who rules the game. I know the views are slightly strong but I just love the IPL – not necessarily for the cricket (because I am a purist :-)) but for what it represents.
1 Purists say it will kill Test Cricket. I feel it is akin to makers of Rolls Royce being worried about Tata Nano’s launch. As any marketing student would tell you, Nike is never worried about counterfeits because a person buying a counterfeit will never buy an original. Similarly, a person who just loves the slam bam and glamour of TT cricket would never appreciate Rahul Dravid’s defense. Infact, TT would help in separating the masses from the classes. I personally absolutely hate watching cricket with ignorant experts who feel that chasing 400 in a test match on a last day is a walk in the park because you require only 4 RPO. Its great for the game if such people stay away from Test cricket. The biggest success of the IPL is that it has brought new viewers to the game. Thus it is only increasing the reach of the game we all love. Test cricket will stay, supported only by those who really understand the game and want to see a battle between bat and ball and not just boom boom afridi.
2. I love the IPL for the sake of the Rajat Bhatia’s & Mithun Manhas’s of the world. These are players who have toiled for years in the Indian domestic circuit playing in spite of empty stands, immense heat and dirty politics in return of no recognition and very little money. Probably, its only the love of the game, passion and a hope that drives them. Hope of recognition and success. Some people would argue that these players are unsuccessful and hence do not deserve this recognition. Considering that every young boy born in India after 1983 has atleast once in his life dreamt of becoming a cricket player and only a handful of them are lucky enough to play in the domestic circuit, these players are super successful. If cricket was like a CAT exam, they would be in the high 99.9 percentile zone. They surely deserved more credit than they used to get. For the sake of those players who have given it all in the domestic scene but are not able to make it to the international level because of luck or little lack of talent I love the IPL.
3. The earliest memory I have of cricket is England’s Tour of India in 1993 famous for a double hundred scored by a certain Vinod Kambli. The English wicketkeeper on that tour was some guy called blackey, because the main wicket keeper Alec Stewart simply refused to tour India. It was a norm during those days. Loads of English players had refused earlier tours either feigning injuries or citing personal reasons. These were the pre terrorism days and security was not an issue. Its amazing to think that the same country’s team decided to continue with the tour after one of the worst terrorist attacks in the world hit India. Quite obviously it was in the name of “WORLD PEACE”
And its not only the English. Australia’s great ambassador of peace who wants to resolve the racist attacks in Australia, ordered specially made food from Australia as late as the 98 tour. A well known joke running during those times was that Australians suffer from food poisoning just after hearing that the food that they were served was washed in tap water.
I am sure the same process is still followed. But suddenly, India is the place to play cricket. It is the center of the world. They say its because of the passion and the crowd support. Its baloney!! Indian crowds were as passionate in 80’s or the 90’s. Only one thing has changed and we all know what it is and i love the IPL for bringing out the splurge in the open and attracting the materialistic foreigners to my country.
4. Richie Benaud in an interview quoted a young Australian batsman whose ultimate dream was to play in the IPL. He did not mention the baggie green. He wanted to play the IPL. Sign of the future perhaps!!
Because it sells million dollar dreams to many young cricketers around the world and particularly in India, I love the IPL.
5. Some boards feel that it will destroy the game in other countries because the boards don’t have enough money to keep their players and they would go into retirement to play in the IPL. Why should India be worried about the same. All the other Indian sports have suffered because of the exact same reason, and it is not India’s prerogative to look after other boards and their concerns. We are a nation that is large enough and strong enough to run our own sport, even if others suddenly stop playing. If baseball can have a world series played in a single country, cricket can also have an all powerful league.
India has ruled the game of cricket for the past ten years and IPL is just a show of strength. Unfortunately, our team has not been the best in the world and hence we needed another kind of reminder to the world that it is India who rules the game. I know the views are slightly strong but I just love the IPL – not necessarily for the cricket (because I am a purist :-)) but for what it represents.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Batch 2010 Oscars
The post is dedicated to the batch of 2010 FMS MBA.
I have met some truly crazy and bizzare people at FMS. It was only apt to dedicate them some space in my blog. So before media team steals my thunder i decided to come up with my own list of OSCARS for the most popular people of the batch.The jury for these awards is Team BountyHunters - Siddhesh Agashe & Dhruv Anand
MSA will sponsor the prizes and please contact fin secy for further details.
1. Abhishek Sudhakar - Mithun Chakravarty GUNDA award for Best Comic performance in a tragic role
For his amazing, unintentional humor in SOP box which drove us crazy
2. Suman Ubriani - Nirupa Roy award for the best Dukhiyari Nari - Of course, all thanks to Amit tyaagi
3. Kumar Jayant - Shakti Kapoor award for the biggest Flirt
4. Manish Kumar - Google award for Most humorous status messages - And also proving the fact - Status messages dont reveal the true identity of the person
5. Nidhi Kaicker - Best Background music - For constant "che che che" that can drive the most patient people crazy.
6. Amit Kumar - Best actor - For his amazing monologue that established the BABA clan
7. 59 - Lifetime achievement award for constant....ah, i dont know what
8. Arup kumar Das - Appam Chutia award for irritating everyone he came across atleast once.
9. Malavika Adkoli - Sportswoman of the year - For becoming the first player in history to break a leg after being hit by a ping pong ball
10. Sannata Wing - Manoj Kumar's tragedy king award
11. Aditya Maheswari - Barrack Obama award for the best speech ever - Conclub conclave
12. Myself, Arkesh and Dhruv - Best art direction - Vaibhav batra's placement pic
13. Vaibhav Batra - Upcoming model award - Refer Brand Man students for details
14. Chussu, Chooha and Ghissu - Self Destruct spammers award
15. Sutta Chicks - Best Cheerleader's award - Had the spanish team heard it, India would have surely won.
16. Kusha Goyal - UNICEF award for social service - Her anorexia has ensured atleast 2 children less would die of hunger.
17. Ronak Marolia - 100% attendance best student award
18. Siddharth Singh - Best part time student in the MBA full time course
19. Sougata Roy - Best Guest Appearance award
20. Chimni - Environmental conservation award for producing most amount of natural GAS
21. Yatindra Vijavargiya - Pnkj Sinha award for arbit bakwaas. "Qyun aaya forbidden District"
22. Gyanendra Prasad & Amit Kumar - The Airtel guy award for ensuring Airtel's balance sheet stays green
23. Deepak Joshi - HVV Award for Biggest Tharki where HVV stands for you know what
24. Mondal - Lord of the pings award for achievement in noble art of spamming
25. Alisson Perriera - Baba Ramdev Award for best hand exercises award
26. Sushil Pasricha - Fair and lovely Best expression award
27. Sobhanjeet Rath - Best dancer award for Kauua dance
28. Rajat Sagar and DCB - Best action couple award
29. Gaurav Sharma - Bal Brahmachari award for accepting the molestation
30. Gaurav Mittal - Prateek Mathur award for Best smile
31 Prabin Sapkota - Interjector of the Year for asking the most pertinent out of the box questions - Case in point - I did not get high question in the culsoc MSA review.
32. Arkesh Ajay - Roadies Survivor of the year - For surviving against all odds read juniors
33. Nitin Goel - FMS Peace award
34. Anurag Binani - BC Teachers choice award for Best Groomed student
35. Frinson Francis - Best Costume for the famous orange jacket
36. Mansi Prasad - Female Spammer of the year - Yaa, no competition unfair award
37. Aditya Agarwal - Jimmy Choo Superhero of the year
38. Divyanshu Dixit - Freerider of the year award - Was really difficult one to give, but since we tried to have a one award per person policy we had to give it to a person wit absolute no other talent
39. Puja Kasat- Agony aunt of the year -- Another zero competition give away.
40. Navneet 60 - Pareshan Pati award for constant constipation
41. Peeyush Anand - Sunny Deol Award for Best Acting in an emotional role
42 Sabyasachi Ghosh - Dev anand's "Abhi to mai jawaan hu" Award for senior citizens
43 Chetan Agarwal - Satyam Computer Services' Ethical person of the year
44 Kohin Roy - Transformation of the year - From Chillsoc corner to the corner room
45 Sandeep Kannan - MCD's Water conservation award for saving a bucket of water every day
46 Mufeed - Viagara's Super energetic dude award
47 Madhukar Kumar Jha - Brander of the year for conceptualizing Lizard lipsticks
48 Shreekar Sudarshan - Chatur ramalingam award for biggest ghissu male
49 Priyanka Garg - Priyanka Garg award for the biggest ghissu female - Creating her own category
50 Harsh Raj Kumar - Dharmendra award for Best drunk performance
51 Tyagi, Abir,Parvati, Suman and Sachdev - Red and White bravery Award
52 Vaibhav Anand - Simpsons Funny guy of the year - Remember Vihaan's Induction week event
53 Kriti Gupta - ML Singlas Punctual Student of the year - For being super consistent to enter class at 9:30
54 Aditi Gupta - Rs 75/month scholarship for a year under the Sonia Gandhi garib peedit unemployed mahila pariyojna
55 Karan Sehgal - Arvind Narshiman Samoohik balatkar award
56 Neha Sharma - Doubt of the year -- Do ecell students sit for placements?? -- Credits Puja for reminding
57 Vidhi Srivastava - Kiran Mam's useless gyaanbaazi award
58 Ananta Agarwal - Pappu electronics Technician of the year
59 Neetu Mathew - Fake accent of the year. Honestly Kusha wins this hands down but we have strict policies, one individual award per person.
60 Sonam Madan - Anupama Vohra's Ideal bahu award
61 Peeyush hemnani - Junior Batch's Universal Bhaiyya of the year
62 Vaibhav Puri - Dhruv da dhaba Waiter of the year
63 Shrida Joshi - Gujarat and Nort East governments National Integration award
64 Ravi Sattawan - Excuse of the year - Sir, i am going to rural villages for dissertation. Please grant me exemption.
65 Rahul Bhatt - Shammi kapoor Head banging award............Credits: Manish Kumar
66 Dhruv Anand - Dara Singh Muscle Man of the year
67 Da and DCB - Tarun Tejpal whistle blower award............Credits: Manish Kumar
68 Simrinder - Akshay Kumar award for the best female in action role.........Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
69 Rohit Jhangiani - Madu Vij's fastest ever dating award -- Remember first ever class
70 Dharam Vir -- Mallika Sherawat most slutty performance award -- Remember Induction week........Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
71 Shivani Singh - VK Bhalla's The undercover economist award-- She is an economics honours, even i didnt know before today.......Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
72 Chavi Singhal - Sabyasachi award for coining the most misused term in FMS - Bestest CR.......Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
73 Ved Agarwal - shahnaaz hussain Pony Tail of the year...............Credits : Deepak Joshi
74 Kunal Choudhary- Kumbhakaran of the year.......Credits: Deepak Joshi
75 Abhinav Chugh - Citibank "Mai bhi hoon" Award.........Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
76 Distressed Student - Arkesh Ajay's "Thank you for not mailing" Gratitude award
In case you have not made it to the elite list, dont worry the jury is highly immoral and open to changing the list depending on the incentives offered. As it is, the list is hurriedly compiled and some jewels are still missing. We will try to accommodate them asap. You are of course allowed to nominate yourself.
I have met some truly crazy and bizzare people at FMS. It was only apt to dedicate them some space in my blog. So before media team steals my thunder i decided to come up with my own list of OSCARS for the most popular people of the batch.The jury for these awards is Team BountyHunters - Siddhesh Agashe & Dhruv Anand
MSA will sponsor the prizes and please contact fin secy for further details.
1. Abhishek Sudhakar - Mithun Chakravarty GUNDA award for Best Comic performance in a tragic role
For his amazing, unintentional humor in SOP box which drove us crazy
2. Suman Ubriani - Nirupa Roy award for the best Dukhiyari Nari - Of course, all thanks to Amit tyaagi
3. Kumar Jayant - Shakti Kapoor award for the biggest Flirt
4. Manish Kumar - Google award for Most humorous status messages - And also proving the fact - Status messages dont reveal the true identity of the person
5. Nidhi Kaicker - Best Background music - For constant "che che che" that can drive the most patient people crazy.
6. Amit Kumar - Best actor - For his amazing monologue that established the BABA clan
7. 59 - Lifetime achievement award for constant....ah, i dont know what
8. Arup kumar Das - Appam Chutia award for irritating everyone he came across atleast once.
9. Malavika Adkoli - Sportswoman of the year - For becoming the first player in history to break a leg after being hit by a ping pong ball
10. Sannata Wing - Manoj Kumar's tragedy king award
11. Aditya Maheswari - Barrack Obama award for the best speech ever - Conclub conclave
12. Myself, Arkesh and Dhruv - Best art direction - Vaibhav batra's placement pic
13. Vaibhav Batra - Upcoming model award - Refer Brand Man students for details
14. Chussu, Chooha and Ghissu - Self Destruct spammers award
15. Sutta Chicks - Best Cheerleader's award - Had the spanish team heard it, India would have surely won.
16. Kusha Goyal - UNICEF award for social service - Her anorexia has ensured atleast 2 children less would die of hunger.
17. Ronak Marolia - 100% attendance best student award
18. Siddharth Singh - Best part time student in the MBA full time course
19. Sougata Roy - Best Guest Appearance award
20. Chimni - Environmental conservation award for producing most amount of natural GAS
21. Yatindra Vijavargiya - Pnkj Sinha award for arbit bakwaas. "Qyun aaya forbidden District"
22. Gyanendra Prasad & Amit Kumar - The Airtel guy award for ensuring Airtel's balance sheet stays green
23. Deepak Joshi - HVV Award for Biggest Tharki where HVV stands for you know what
24. Mondal - Lord of the pings award for achievement in noble art of spamming
25. Alisson Perriera - Baba Ramdev Award for best hand exercises award
26. Sushil Pasricha - Fair and lovely Best expression award
27. Sobhanjeet Rath - Best dancer award for Kauua dance
28. Rajat Sagar and DCB - Best action couple award
29. Gaurav Sharma - Bal Brahmachari award for accepting the molestation
30. Gaurav Mittal - Prateek Mathur award for Best smile
31 Prabin Sapkota - Interjector of the Year for asking the most pertinent out of the box questions - Case in point - I did not get high question in the culsoc MSA review.
32. Arkesh Ajay - Roadies Survivor of the year - For surviving against all odds read juniors
33. Nitin Goel - FMS Peace award
34. Anurag Binani - BC Teachers choice award for Best Groomed student
35. Frinson Francis - Best Costume for the famous orange jacket
36. Mansi Prasad - Female Spammer of the year - Yaa, no competition unfair award
37. Aditya Agarwal - Jimmy Choo Superhero of the year
38. Divyanshu Dixit - Freerider of the year award - Was really difficult one to give, but since we tried to have a one award per person policy we had to give it to a person wit absolute no other talent
39. Puja Kasat- Agony aunt of the year -- Another zero competition give away.
40. Navneet 60 - Pareshan Pati award for constant constipation
41. Peeyush Anand - Sunny Deol Award for Best Acting in an emotional role
42 Sabyasachi Ghosh - Dev anand's "Abhi to mai jawaan hu" Award for senior citizens
43 Chetan Agarwal - Satyam Computer Services' Ethical person of the year
44 Kohin Roy - Transformation of the year - From Chillsoc corner to the corner room
45 Sandeep Kannan - MCD's Water conservation award for saving a bucket of water every day
46 Mufeed - Viagara's Super energetic dude award
47 Madhukar Kumar Jha - Brander of the year for conceptualizing Lizard lipsticks
48 Shreekar Sudarshan - Chatur ramalingam award for biggest ghissu male
49 Priyanka Garg - Priyanka Garg award for the biggest ghissu female - Creating her own category
50 Harsh Raj Kumar - Dharmendra award for Best drunk performance
51 Tyagi, Abir,Parvati, Suman and Sachdev - Red and White bravery Award
52 Vaibhav Anand - Simpsons Funny guy of the year - Remember Vihaan's Induction week event
53 Kriti Gupta - ML Singlas Punctual Student of the year - For being super consistent to enter class at 9:30
54 Aditi Gupta - Rs 75/month scholarship for a year under the Sonia Gandhi garib peedit unemployed mahila pariyojna
55 Karan Sehgal - Arvind Narshiman Samoohik balatkar award
56 Neha Sharma - Doubt of the year -- Do ecell students sit for placements?? -- Credits Puja for reminding
57 Vidhi Srivastava - Kiran Mam's useless gyaanbaazi award
58 Ananta Agarwal - Pappu electronics Technician of the year
59 Neetu Mathew - Fake accent of the year. Honestly Kusha wins this hands down but we have strict policies, one individual award per person.
60 Sonam Madan - Anupama Vohra's Ideal bahu award
61 Peeyush hemnani - Junior Batch's Universal Bhaiyya of the year
62 Vaibhav Puri - Dhruv da dhaba Waiter of the year
63 Shrida Joshi - Gujarat and Nort East governments National Integration award
64 Ravi Sattawan - Excuse of the year - Sir, i am going to rural villages for dissertation. Please grant me exemption.
65 Rahul Bhatt - Shammi kapoor Head banging award............Credits: Manish Kumar
66 Dhruv Anand - Dara Singh Muscle Man of the year
67 Da and DCB - Tarun Tejpal whistle blower award............Credits: Manish Kumar
68 Simrinder - Akshay Kumar award for the best female in action role.........Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
69 Rohit Jhangiani - Madu Vij's fastest ever dating award -- Remember first ever class
70 Dharam Vir -- Mallika Sherawat most slutty performance award -- Remember Induction week........Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
71 Shivani Singh - VK Bhalla's The undercover economist award-- She is an economics honours, even i didnt know before today.......Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
72 Chavi Singhal - Sabyasachi award for coining the most misused term in FMS - Bestest CR.......Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
73 Ved Agarwal - shahnaaz hussain Pony Tail of the year...............Credits : Deepak Joshi
74 Kunal Choudhary- Kumbhakaran of the year.......Credits: Deepak Joshi
75 Abhinav Chugh - Citibank "Mai bhi hoon" Award.........Credits: Nidhi Kaicker
76 Distressed Student - Arkesh Ajay's "Thank you for not mailing" Gratitude award
In case you have not made it to the elite list, dont worry the jury is highly immoral and open to changing the list depending on the incentives offered. As it is, the list is hurriedly compiled and some jewels are still missing. We will try to accommodate them asap. You are of course allowed to nominate yourself.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
P&G thanks HUL for free publicity
The recent RIN advertisement has certainly created a buzz in the country. A research conducted by a marketing research firm ABCL confirmed that the ad was the most discussed topic on Holi. Useless blogger communities are back in business – putting in posts analyzing the ad and its impact on masses. Some communist writers are of the opinion that such ads are a result of the growing Americanization of India and should be banned immediately. Opposition parties are also planning to stage a walk out over the issue.
However, when reporters of various sensational Hindi news channels contacted P&G for some angry reactions, they were in for a surprise. P&G officials are extremely excited by the latest developments. They are elated because for the first time HUL has recognized P&G as a threat. This is in recognition of all the efforts that we have put over the past few years said a P&G employee. Nirma and Ghadi are two of the biggest detergent brands in India and always considered as a potential threat to HUL domination. Despite P&G’s efforts, Ariel and Tide have always been laggards bought only by people having a fascination for buying phoren goods. One junior P&G manager told us ‘’We were taught Nirma case study in Bschool. Nobody talked about Tide or Ariel. Now they would teach Tide vs Rin at my alma mater. I might be invited for some fruitful discussions. Having received a lot of attitude from industry experts during my placecom days it will be my chance to throw some back. Thank you HUL. “
Another employee gleaming with joy reasoned “My girlfriend’s dad thought I worked for some gambling casino. I can now proudly tell him, I sell Tide. “
Marketing experts believe that the main reason for Proctor’s excitement is because of the fact that they could have never matched HUL’s advertising expenses. And now they have got some free advertising. With prime time rates sky high in the holiday season, there is nothing better than your rival advertising for you.
This is surely a time to rejoice and merry making for Proctor and Gamble employees.
PS: The credits of this post to my boredom at FMS and ankur kalra, the P&G employee talked about.
However, when reporters of various sensational Hindi news channels contacted P&G for some angry reactions, they were in for a surprise. P&G officials are extremely excited by the latest developments. They are elated because for the first time HUL has recognized P&G as a threat. This is in recognition of all the efforts that we have put over the past few years said a P&G employee. Nirma and Ghadi are two of the biggest detergent brands in India and always considered as a potential threat to HUL domination. Despite P&G’s efforts, Ariel and Tide have always been laggards bought only by people having a fascination for buying phoren goods. One junior P&G manager told us ‘’We were taught Nirma case study in Bschool. Nobody talked about Tide or Ariel. Now they would teach Tide vs Rin at my alma mater. I might be invited for some fruitful discussions. Having received a lot of attitude from industry experts during my placecom days it will be my chance to throw some back. Thank you HUL. “
Another employee gleaming with joy reasoned “My girlfriend’s dad thought I worked for some gambling casino. I can now proudly tell him, I sell Tide. “
Marketing experts believe that the main reason for Proctor’s excitement is because of the fact that they could have never matched HUL’s advertising expenses. And now they have got some free advertising. With prime time rates sky high in the holiday season, there is nothing better than your rival advertising for you.
This is surely a time to rejoice and merry making for Proctor and Gamble employees.
PS: The credits of this post to my boredom at FMS and ankur kalra, the P&G employee talked about.
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