Category Archives: PUBLISHED ARTICLES

The Ides of March: Are you ready for your next innings?

So, you are happy with your current job. You are doing so well. Everyone praises you. Is that making you complacent? Have you stopped looking at the future?Are you too secure in your current profile? The answers are best known to you. The answers will tell you where you are headed. May be the ‘T-junction’… Read More »

Do Publishers respect Abby?

I hope the answer is a resounding ‘Yes’. But hope means nothing. It is the result that counts. The experience of the first two years points in another direction. In 2014, Goafest added ‘Publisher and Broadcaster Abby’. I was one of the many winners in 2014 and part of the jury in 2015. Hence, this stupid-sounding… Read More »

I don’t see peace coming down with kabootar

Mumbai is a city battling with the nuisance of many problems and one of them is really the over population of kabootar (dove).  There are kabootar khanas (where dove can be fed) and people eager to feed.  Everyone is aware of the diseases and allergies caused by kabootars and their droppings, yet the universal symbol… Read More »

How and why Belgium’s top ad exec donated sperm for a national cause ?

I can imagine, the uproar such a campaign would have caused in India. If, that is IF, our Ad Club thought of running such a campaign. I don’t think that will ever happen. We move very small steps. We have taken some positives of pushing for a membership drive with life membership and linking event… Read More »

What I want at GOAFEST 2016.

April 7 to 9, 2016 will see the 11th edition of  Goafest. The event has survived a controversies and absenteeism. The team at the helm must be appreciated for doing such a fabulous job. This year afresh the Goafest team meeting important stakeholders – the advertisers, agencies, journalists and past jury members. That is a… Read More »