Advertising vs retail: from accomplices to competition

During my marketing days with S.C Johnson, I learned something […]

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Rangoli, handwriting and your mind

During workshops, team meetings and lectures, I often write on […]

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It’s tough being a client!

Around 2004, we won the advertising business of a new […]

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Picking holes… in everything

Interesting how studying for ‘consumer insights’ often results in understanding […]

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Do you sometimes feel guilty about being ‘lazy’?

Do you sometimes feel guilty about being ‘lazy’? The list […]

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We embrace change, we somewhere wish it didn’t have to be this way.

Yesterday MS Dhoni made 18 runs and the social media […]

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‘Are there some examples, case studies of other brands doing this? Preferably in a category similar to ours, in India?’

A common and seemingly ‘reasonable’ question you might face when […]

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A fascinating story of male ego fragility in dealing with women’s success in professional fields.

I must have been 4-5 years when I saw Abhimaan, […]

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Life from the lens of a married Indian man

Over the last decade, our studies on him have painted […]

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Fabulous 5-day seminar on advertising

In 2003, I attended a fabulous 5-day seminar on advertising […]

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In a traditional category, how do you position a brand as modern?

By understanding what makes it traditional in its meaning and […]

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‘Been waiting for 41 years for this bronze!’ went a tweet on India’s Olympics hockey win.

15-year-old nephew posted on social media – ‘Been waiting for […]

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Can your creative magnifier hijack your ad?

Cred’s new ad clearly belongs in the ‘break the internet’ […]

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Papa main class mein first aaya!

Papa main class mein first aaya! This might trigger happy […]

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Cricket pitches, masculinity & racial bias

If you follow cricket keenly, you have come across expert […]

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When a person doesn’t have colours in his life, he puts them in his clothing

‘When a person doesn’t have colours in his life, he […]

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Then it is better to have two housewives in the team instead of two planners

‘Then it is better to have two housewives in the […]

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The silence after the Zoom presentation.

Achcha nahi bana kya? a question I often faced from […]

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Romantic Hindi songs have an interesting pattern

When the hero serenades the heroine, a lot of it […]

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Gender, cinema, religion & an interesting discovery!

While the Bollywood dominance of Khans is well known, the […]

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