It took me a long time to start blogging again. I was reading a lot in my freetime. Let me tell you what I have been reading.

It Happened In India: The Story of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Central and the Great Indian Consumer

It is a good book by Kishore Biyani. It is probably the first book you will see when you walk into the “Depot”, the book selling section of “Brand Factory”, “Hyderabad Central” or “Big Bazaar”.

Marketing Genius By Peter Fisk

This book contains good case studies. In authors words, the purpose of this book is to inspire entrepreneurs, marketers and others involved in serving the customers and shareholders.

Execuition By Ram Charan

The only reason I started reading this book, is becuase of Ram Charan. I happened to see a video on him in Youtube. He is just amazing. Visit www.ram-charan.com to know more about him. He is on a 30 year long business trip, with literally no home and family. His goal is to help get entrepreneurs where they aim to get.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People By Stephen Covey

It is a very popular book. I think most people have already read it

Awaken The Giant Within By Anthony Robbins

This again is a popular book.

Coming to other books, I have been reading “Alchemist” and “Witch Of Portobello ” by Paulo Coelho. I just loved Alchemist.

I hope to blog often from now on. Will try.

I wrote a little code today, which tries to capture the ‘Search Trends’ on Technorati and Google.

Here is the page

I will not get in to the details of analysis now.

If anyone has any interesting conclusions based on these trends please do let me know.

A new 300 seat state-of-the-art auditorium at Wharton University Of Pennsylvania will be named after Dhirubhai Ambani.

You can find more pictures of the building here

I have seen the lecture halls at ISB, Hyderabad. They are really good too. I do not know how they compare with the facilities at Wharton though.

ISB was setup in collaboration with Wharton Business School, London School Of Business and Kellogs School Of Management.

Airbus’ new plane A380 is the biggest so far.

The specs:

• Max passengers if used with full economy class: 853
• Max passengers if used with standard three-class configuration : 555
• Max Speed about 900 kmph / 560 mph (Fastest train is about 550 kmph I think)

The main reason why I am writing this post is, travelling by A380 is cheaper than travelling by Indica (a hatchback car). Surprised? I was.

The cost of travel for one passenger per km by A380 happens to be less than the cost of travel for one passenger per km by Indica.

A380 will largely be commissioned in the “hub and spoke” model. Meaning, A380 will connect bigger cities. Smaller planes will carry passengers from other smaller cities to and from these bigger cities.

A380 costs less!