Feel good news ..
I have been trying for some time now, but havent been able to kick a habbit. My family have collectively spent atleast 2 % of their life span in trying to convince me to avoid buying 3 newspapers for the same day. Sunday is one of those days when i pick as many papers as i can and yesterday picked up Times , Indian express and the Hindu. Was running through the news papers and came across this interesting restaurant model - Seva Cafe. I still have my doubts about how such a service model can exist ( especially when the people behind the venture intend to give away any profits that they make to charity ). Given that its been operational in Ahmedabad for some time now .. i guess it should be sustainable. Would love to visit the place and get a crash course in the restaurant business. On the topic of restaurants , was reading an article in Outlook Business about the restaurant business and the economics of it. Made a good read. Would recommend Outlook Business as a good business weekly to read ( It is more marcoscopic in content and that works for me as compared to a detailed analysis of all the Mutual funds - This week’s business world india ).
As with regards to kicking the habit of buying multiple news papers to read the same piece of news, i can say that after having read so many comparative news stories, i can say that Times of India is probably the dumbest news paper in India. Hindu is great for sunday reads and has style and substance ( style for me does not imply garrulous colors and beautiful models - For which the times wins hands down ). Express is mid way with an egalitarian look and is kind of lost between being an popular news paper ( like Times ) and being a not so popular, but intelligent news paper ( like Hindu ). Have been dusting my business gyaan and see no clear positioning for Express. The business gyaan also lectures me that though Times of India is a dumb paper .. it is still the most widely read. Also there are a lot of times clones in South India ( most of this comparison holds for southern editions of these papers ) one example of a Times clone is Deccan chronicle.
Another of the feel good news stories that i read was the the one regarding Sanjha Chulha winning the Ashden award ( http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/nishant ). Good going .. considering that the inventor of the chulha created the stove to create demand for his bio fuel briquettes.
i seem to be living up to the theme of the blog .. about all things uinimportant ..
