Consumer Notes
The Ugandan way
In continuation of my series on the Consumer International Congress 2000, I 'd like to focus on consumer protection in Uganda this week. The Consumer Protection Act in Uganda has incorporated some very interesting definitions. I'd like to quote some whi
ch are relevant to our country. They are as follows:
Corporate
Jingle down the infoway
If you thought the average IT employee's life revolved only around ESOPs, TGIF parties, weekend getaways, jaunts abroad and so on, you could be wrong. IT executives swear there is as much soul to their lifestyle as there is matter. Puzzled?
When the tough get going ...
I was recently talking to someone who said that he was a tough negotiator. He looks an opponent in the eye and browbeats him till he backs down.
Food & Dairy Products
Tasty, tongue-in-cheek
When the Tiger Lilys, a group of Pune power-women headed by socialite-publisher Sabina Sanghvi, invited India's best-known chef Sanjeev Kapoor for a tete-e-tete recently, they had no idea they would get such a mouthful to chew on.
Information Technology
Fruity and different
Question: What do a NASA scientist, a best-selling novelist, top rock-star and a dolphin learning to communicate with humans have in common? The definitely unbelievable answer: An Apple Macintosh Computer.
Miscellaneous
Language of aesthetics
The name might have been derived from contradiction. But the lines for Casa Paradox's range of furniture are clean and uncluttered lending a fresh dimension to the environment. Its creators, Naveen Ansal and Raseel Gujral Ansal, have brought in a sublime
line in their Fall/Winter Collection 2000. Their aim is to add to the existing vernacular atmosphere and integrate it piece by piece to form a composite whole or to work on a clean palette as per the requirements of their clients.
Professionalism pays
What a year this has been for the television industry! The buzz at the start of the new millennium was convergence -- everyone was talking about how there were going to be great technological breakthroughs and a transformation in the media world of the l
ikes that had never been seen before.
Policy
Built on bias?
``For 25 years, I have built houses for the rich in this city. My husband and children too have worked to build houses and offices for other people. Yet we don't have a proper house of our own,'' says Kesari Devi, a middle-aged construction worker from R
ajasthan, who lives and works at construction sites in New Delhi.
Travel & Places
A splash of colour from Rajasthan
The sound of cow bells on a dirt track fills the dusty landscape at dusk. The air is arid, village belles in flowing skirts, their arms studded with bone bangles, sweep their way back to the hearth with ageless grace. Flocks of grey-flecked sheep mingle
with them bleating in protest at being herded away from greener pastures.
Picture-book vistas
There are two things you are supposed to do in town. Visit the Niederwald Memorial in a small, shaky, but reliable cable-car -- a tale in itself -- and drop in at Breur's Rudesheimer Schloss for a traditional meal and the local speciality, a special coff
ee with brandy and cream flambe (Asbach Uralt).
Birds flock together
Nestling in the heart of coastal Orissa is India's biggest inland lake and Asia's largest salt water lake, Chilika. Spread over 1,100 sq km, it is wedged between the Bay of Bengal on the east and the eastern ghats on the west, stretching across the lengt
h of the districts of Puri, Khurda and Ganjam.
