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Partnering for Progress: Searce's Commitment to the UAE's AI Vision
The United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s remarkable foresight in artificial intelligence (AI) has positioned it as a leading force in the global AI landscape. Bold strategies and substantial investments, recognised by Oxford Insights’ 2024 AI Readiness Index (ranking the UAE 13th globally and first in the Middle East), highlight the nation's commitment to AI-driven innovation.
The Poetry Issue 2023: Don’t Listen to Sad Music and other poems
I write poetry to let the breathless thoughts in my head find a resting place. My writing seems to get better with time; the progress albeit is at a glacial pace. These days I write sort of okayish poetry, I was insufferable at first. I have chosen to live in Singapore because as a family we love it, but I always get a feeling of being disembodied. In my mind I still walk the bylanes of India.
Mischievous Playboy Or Tragic Hero: What Is The Idea Of Ranbir Kapoor?
Ranbir Kapoor has managed to create a distinct identity for himself. There is a discernible pattern in his choice of roles. Few of his contemporaries like Ranveer Singh or Shahid Kapoor can say that for themselves. It is suggestive of the clear currency around Amitabh Bachchan in the 70s and 80s, as the ‘angry young man’. Is he channelling the Kapoors with his various avatars? Is he the young Shammi Kapoor, the mischievous playboy? Is he playing out Raj Kapoor, the tragic hero?
Poems: The Bombay Stories That Will Last Forever
The Prisoner Of Bombay 1. Bombay was my first love. It was painted under my eyelids in psychedelic hues. I always saw it when my eyes closed. I am like the demon in the folk tale who could never be killed, because his life was stored in the parrot. Mine is in Bombay. (I find this funny because I now see the phrase ‘Bambai meri jaan; in new light). 2. Sitting in the sleek Singapore taxis that smell of perfumed air-conditioned air I longed for black & yellow Bombay taxis.
The Poetry Issue 2022: Blue Cheese Dreams and other poems
On My Poetics I write poetry to let the breathless thoughts jostling in my head, find a resting place. My poetry is everything inside me. The debris I carry from Bombay, Baroda, Poona, Assam. I am built of these geographies and ONGC colonies I lived in. Am a child of the Nehruvian public sector. It all starts with a feeling, that comes out of nowhere. A line at the back of a bus, some flashy handbag in a queue, some kid yellingat the mall, and I start time travelling.
Ekaani, luxury home décor gifting brand, launches experimental wedding lounge
Ekaani, a luxury home décor gifting brand, has launched an experimental wedding lounge which can be booked on appointment basis to curate wedding-day gifts. The experimental Juhu lounge will predominantly have a mix of premium and luxury products from well-known brands across the world. They include: Rosenthal: Premium dinnerware, glassware and giftware from Germany Rosenthal Meets Versace: The famous Medusa collections of Versace.
Godot Speaks and other poems
Nine poems by the New York-based poet, as part of the World Poetry/Prose Portfolio, curated by Sudeep Sen From our fifth-floor aerie, now cell, I spot my neighbors clad in fur who pay no maintenance fees nor assessment charges. For they are free, free in a tree! Free to lead such swinging lives, hedonists all, whether backyard aerialists or speed demons careening up and down the leafy highways and their branches.
Kaavita Das: Body and Soul
I cannot remember a time when dance was not a part of my life — from dancing to music on the TV and CDs as a child, to music at festivals, family gatherings and formal classes. It sounds precocious but I started learning dance at the tender age of 3.
Odds and Ends: In Praise of Cake
I was probably five years old. We had moved to Bandra, near Band Stand; from Mehsana, a small hamlet in north Gujarat, where my father, a geologist studying rock samples for traces of oil, had been stationed. Bollywood stars dwelled here; we were told. The men folk, by the clock, went for a morning walk and bumped into the queen of Bollywood and muttered “Namaste Rekhaji’ hurriedly. Their existence now declared a complete success.
Gabriela Cabezon Camara: ‘It’s important for us to be able to imagine other possible worlds’
Buenos Aires-based writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, 51, is one of the most prominent figures in Argentinian and Latin American literature, who has also carved out her identity as an eminent feminist intellectual in the region.
Odds and Ends: The Hawai Chappal
Our homes have transformed. The Uptron TV has been upgraded toa flat screen and the 2-in-1 has made way for the home theatre. But the hawai chappal is still there, hanging in there with the pajama. We segregate things into the pure and the profane. The spiritual and the dirty. The slipper slips in everywhere. I remember my mother would admonish me for roaming around in the house in my shoes but the chappal could go anywhere. To the utter horror of my grandparents, once from the toilet to the kitchen.
Vasily Grossman and Graham Greene: The Nature of Doubt
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964), the Russian writer whose best known work is Life and Fate (a story of Russia during the Second World War), travelled to Armenia in 1960 for some translation work he took on essentially “to escape from material difficulties” (that is, to avoid debt) as he wrote to his wife.1 But what was later published as An Armenian Sketchbook (1988) as an account of this visit would turn out to be much more than a mere travelogue.
Odds and Ends: The Bucket and the Shower
Visiting one of the cities in India where you can feel the cold hands of winter, the bathroom becomes a warm sanctuary. As you soak yourself under the shower in an endless stream of warm water being heated by the circuitry of the geyser, your mind travels back to a time when the electric geyser was still not common and one used to squat in the bathroom on a little stool or on the floor and manually pour water on one’s body from a bucket in a series of well-rehearsed mechanics.
Odds and Ends: The Humble Balloon
While most toys look like a toy version of life-size items, the balloon looks like itself. It is outlandish. When toddlers see it, they are transfixed by it. This bright orb that floats. The balloon is a friendly alien, it is like ET. The balloon is like a temporary pet. Even if you kick it, the balloon does not mind. It goes under the table or floats away into another room. This is probably why children weep when it pops and disappears or floats away into the sky. Their podgy pet has vanished.
Odds and Ends: The Bus Rides of Bombay
A monthly column about miscellaneous things, curated by Palash Krishna Mehrotra The train always ran on its tracks. Roaring in and out of the stations; giving you the flavour of each suburb; Gujarati, Tamilian, Parsi and in places like Dadar, clearly Marathi. You imagined the rest of the suburb based on the real estate along the tracks. The buildings, shops and slums near the tracks advertising the rest of the suburb. It was a letterbox view of the suburb.
Trend Watch 2017: Singapore seeks retail revival, economic resilience
This article explores the trends likely to shape Singapore's marketing and advertising sector in 2017 including mobile content, experiential activations in retail and the ongoing effects of economic downturn. Evolution of retail Mobile marketing, mobile web Singapore Cultural influences & values Strategy Global uncertainty is casting a looming shadow on the world and Singapore, a small island easily buffeted by global economic currents, is preparing itself...
Should Businesses Be Hiring Anthropologists Instead of MBAs?
The language of business can be combative (launch, target, strategize), or very often it is about profits, sales, shared value - the language of money. We are either warriors or accountants when it comes to business. However, both warring and counting money are inherently non-productive. In themselves, as actions, they are incapable of producing growth. Where does growth in business come from? The answer, no surprise, is that it results from people.
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