One of the things I like about French is that it is full of euphemisms. Also given that anyone speaking French sounds either polite or romantic (albeit in a very facial paralysis kind of way, where the lips are always too close to each other), it’s a great language to be impolite in.
Case in point: [...]
Category Archives: Behind The Scenes
Breaking News
It was just reported to us by Ance in Customer Support that the order placed by Sachin Bansal, THE Sachin Bansal (Co-Founder and CEO of Flipkart.com) has not yet been delivered. The package was shipped through a reputed courier service (we will not mention names but it rhymes with FlewDart), and the above screenshot slipped [...]
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BBF09 And All That Jazz …
One reason I’ve been unavailable and unreachable has been the Bangalore Book Festival 2009 (organised by the Bangalore Booksellers and Publishers Assocation, scheduled to kick-off at around 11am tomorrow. As a matter of fact, we just got back from there, setting up the stall and whatnot.
We’re at Stalls #183 and #184, just down the lane [...]
A Few Reasons Why Online Payment Is Safe On Flipkart
Here’s a mail I received a few days ago:
Hi Tapas,
In your blog can you please write about the security standards which you follow if anyone orders the book using credit/debit card from your site. I am telling you because today I wanted to buy some book and I was browsing through your site [...] and [...]
The Stress Test
You see this all the time — and for some of you who don’t present yourselves for job interviews very often (and that’s a good thing!) — MTV Roadies (or the reality show of your choice) is the best approximate example.
Grace Under Fire, Grace Under Pressure
This is essentially what a “stress test” looks to [...]
Flipkart Funding!
There’s a lot of talk around about this, so might as well. Before you hear of it from elsewhere. I’m not sure I should be revealing all this … don’t even think I’m authorised to reveal this … but I’m going to go ahead and do it anyway. All you journalists, feel free to quote [...]
Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol Takes Up Our Time
While Robert Langdon was probably running around finding clues where none existed (all over the course of 12 hours), we were doing more or less the same - packing the 600 or so backorders as fast as we could! That’s 50 books an hour, no matter how you slice it.
Not to mention all the other [...]
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A Letter To Mr. Sam Miller
Dear Mr. Miller,
May I call you Sam? Please allow me to introduce my good self. Myself Tapas R. I know what you might be thinking, “What is this R.?” You see Sir, I am from a South Indian family where it is customary to add a lot of initials either preceding or following one’s name. [...]
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A Haiku For You
Startup Saturday;
Some meet in cafés and camps
We just come to work.
With my assurances that our quality of work far surpasses the quality of the above Haiku, have a good one.
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All Your Books Are Belong To Us
I have just transplanted myself from Flipkart Bangalore to Flipkart Delhi, and I wasn’t the least bit prepared!
I joined Flipkart when we had but one office, the one in Bangalore … it was also the office Flipkart had relocated to from its earlier home, a room in the house of first one Bansal, then the [...]