Monthly Archives: April 2009

The Langues & Short Of It

By Tapas | Published: April 28, 2009

English | Hindi | Punjabi | Haryanvi | Kannada | Tamil | Telugu | Marathi | Bengali | French|
These are more or less the sum of all languages spoken at Flipkart. Well, not so much ’spoken between us’ - more like ‘one of us possesses some degree of fluency in’. Almost everyone speaks at least [...]

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People That Make Us - V. V. K. Chandra

By Tapas | Published: April 27, 2009

Contrary to what the title might suggest, this is not about anyone at Flipkart.
Taking a leap of faith online is not as hard as it looks but is much harder than you think. Our brains are hardwired for the senses - see; smell; feel; touch; taste. The main challenge of a Click-’n-Mortar store is bringing [...]

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Will The Real Flipkart Blog Please Stand Up…?

By Tapas | Published: April 27, 2009

It’s been a while Flipkart.com has been online (a year and a half), and we should probably have jumped onto the blog bandwagon much sooner. To be more precise - The ‘official blog’ bandwagon.
As it turns out, we have infact had a blog on wordpress all along, since the 6th of November. Hmm. Might imitation [...]

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