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What a hotel’s Marketing Manager actually does

Posted on June 4, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

It is no secret that the hotel industry is one of the most demanding, exhausting, merciless industries ever. The role

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Copy-Paste Customer Support Must End

Posted on September 24, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

People who work in customer support live in purgatory. Their days are shaped by clients that are neighbours of the

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Stop Calling Me Names!

Posted on June 6, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

Pandemonium, emails flooding my computer, chefs buzzing about, people dodging in and out of office, phones ringing off the hook.

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How Many Ways Can You See A City?

Posted on December 12, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

A version of this article was published in Metro Plus, The Hindu There aren’t many big cities on my travel

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Why Can’t I Eat Your Cereal, Kellogg’s?

Posted on May 11, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

Since being married I have learned rather well, the true value of a hot breakfast, missing mum’s parathas, pohas, idlis

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Why You Must Go To Colombo

Posted on April 30, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

You know how we all have that neighbour who’s got better tiles, better furniture, nicer food that us, more friends

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Among the crowded rolling hills

Posted on May 16, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

A version of this article was published in Metro Plus, The Hindu You don’t realise the value of your friends

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The English Countryside Wedding

Posted on April 16, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

Last October, I attended my first non-Indian wedding. It had everything fairy-tales are made of – the flowing white dress,

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How To Clean Your Couch

Posted on April 26, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

About 18 months ago, I was forced to do something I absolutely do not like – shop. For a couch.

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Can You Spot The Cat?

Posted on November 22, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

It’s been pouring in Chennai for the last few weeks and there’s been enough and more written about it. Check

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Hey, I Put Some New Shoes On!

Posted on October 7, 2015October 19, 2017 by swapnil

It was the evening of my wedding party – the last event of the seemingly never-ending spectacle. I wore my

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You want a design you say?

Posted on August 5, 2013October 19, 2017 by swapnil

I work with designers day in and day out. I have learned more about design working with this amazing species,

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Propose? My knee hurts, will you just marry me already?!

Posted on February 27, 2013October 19, 2017 by swapnil

When you are a Punjabi girl and reach “marriageable age” you find out about relatives you didn’t know existed, they

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Please to buy my amazing product, please?

Posted on December 24, 2012October 19, 2017 by swapnil

Here’s a collection of the funniest sales pitches I have heard in the last 7 months. I swear I didn’t

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Whats’ with all these apostrophe’s man?! This suck’s.

Posted on December 28, 2011October 19, 2017 by swapnil

English is a strange, strange language. And when you are Indian and speak three other languages, it’s even worse. Many

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Here son, let me show you how it’s done

Posted on May 16, 2012October 19, 2017 by swapnil

If you live in Chennai and haven’t taken a share auto ride, you haven’t lived in Chennai. They’re one of

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