Daily Archives: February 27, 2010

What’s In A Name

The Brand
All of us at some point or the other have been asked — “Flipkart, what does it mean?”
For a fact, it means nothing — looking it up in the dictionary will testify just as much. A simple explanation is this;

We needed a unique word (or sound), that meant nothing and hence had no generic [...]

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What Is Rs. 500 Worth?

To add a bit of tangential perspective to the collective goal of a book in every child’s hand, here’s the Value of Rs. 500 (if you haven’t seen it already).

Attributions: OpenspaceIndia.org / Possibly “Nitin Das” [Edited in good faith based on below comment by Hemant Kathuria]
Championing the cause: Pratham Books and Tulika Books.
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