The Week That Was- Edition 4

The week that was:- (21/10/1009)

First and foremost I have to thank the millions of fans who were expecting my article in the 3^rd edition and were left disappointed because it wasn’t published due to space constraints. I heard that few of my fans even went on a hunger strike (he he) and our inbox was overflowing with so many emails asking for an explanation, I would like to thank you all, without your support, I wouldn’t have got this much amount of motivation to write.  To tell the truth not even a single mail/comment was received, but with the noble cause of ranting about some utterly useless stuff       and wasting everyone’s time, I am backJ.

Last week I was really busy doing a lot of travelling and didn’t have much time to explore the media but I learned a lot of things. The outside world is very different, trust me. In fact I think they are really stupid and they have a ridiculous life style. I had to park my bike at Trichy railway station so what I did was (like every IM student) parked my bike on the road 2kms away from the railway station parking lot and walked all way to the station but my friends laughed at me on hearing this. It seems that they park vehicles in the parking lot within the campus!

After reaching there I felt tired, so I thought of drinking some hot water; I asked for a cup of colored hot water in coffee flavor and gave him Rs.10 for it but the shopkeeper gave me coffee with real milk in it for only Rs.6! I thought  he  must be utterly foolish, because it is impossible to sell a cup of coffee for less than Rs.10 so I suggested him to double the price of everything just for the sake of it, whether it is justified or  not. I also asked him to blame food price inflation in case customers complained and he could maximize profit. I call this as Greedy Pricing Strategy and Kotler has agreed to include this in his future texts.

The Hindu on 18/11/09 reported that More Americans opt India for higher studies, the reason they say is Americans are bored of using common sense for learning and they also want to memorize pages and pages of theories which won’t help them in any way when they work in an organization. Indian education system reminds me of the Karate classes that I took during my school days. What I learned from it was, in case if you are attacked by an opponent, before kicking him make sure that you wear a Karate uniform, that he punches you only in head, stomach and abdomen because my teacher didn’t teach me how to block any other kicks or punches. Also my opponent should wait for me to recover after I make every block and then he could punch/kick me again. I have got a brown belt and 5 certificates to show that I could defend myself in Japanese way.

Once I took the risk of testing my skills, so I organized a play fight with my 5year old cousin, I was wearing my uniform, stood in the kata (fighting) posture and asked him to attack me. Needless to say I got hurt very badly, he didn’t follow the rules, he slapped me, kicked me and bit on my forearm which I was supposed to use for upper block! I gave up Karate ever since.

I am often criticized for not writing any business news, so I am going to try it from this edition. Prabhu Deva Inc has proposed to acquire 51% stake at Nayanthara Plc subject to Simbhu’s approval. Share prices of both firms have gone down since the joint venture was proposed. Enough of B-news and I want you all to do a literature review before reading my next column, if you fail to do so you will be charged Rs.10 for the 5^th edition of Atulya and the proceeds will go to Ifthi’s coffee drinking fund.