History of recycling
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Oct 2023
To say that our world has problems would be an understatement. We seem to have no end of problems, some of them leading to crises of sorts.
Kingfisher Airlines Part 2 - the flight of fancy
By Aniket Gupta | 18 Sep 2023
Kingfisher Airlines was launched with a great deal of enthusiasm and fanfare. Founded in 2003 by the Bengaluru-based United Breweries Group
A ballpoint for outer space
By Kiron Kasbekar | 18 Sep 2023
The alarm went off, shattering the peace inside the spaceship. Everyone dropped their electric blankets and rose up, wondering what had happened. Had a meteor hit the spaceship?
Kingfisher Airlines Part 1 - the backdrop
By Aniket Gupta | 15 Sep 2023
Formerly one of the most prominent airlines, of the initial airline liberalization days, Kingfisher Airlines has plunged into a bottomless abyss.
Tinplate vs. plastic containers: which is more environmentally friendly? - Part 3
By Aniket Gupta | 14 Aug 2023
The environmental impact of tinplate and plastic containers extends beyond their production and disposal phases.
Tinplate vs. plastic containers: which is more environmentally friendly? - Part 2
By Aniket Gupta | 14 Aug 2023
The history of plastic containers is a journey of innovation, versatility, and widespread adoption that has shaped the modern packaging landscape.
Tinplate vs. plastic containers: which is more environmentally friendly? - Part 1
By Aniket Gupta | 14 Aug 2023
As people become increasingly conscious of the environmental impact of our consumption habits, we are pushed to make choices between what we are habituated to doing and what we should be doing.
Bengaluru suffers staggering Rs.20,000 crore annual loss due to traffic congestion
By Aniket Gupta | 08 Aug 2023
Traffic congestion in Bengaluru has resulted in an enormous economic loss of nearly Rs 20,000 crore for the city.
$40-50 billion target for Indian technical textiles
By Cygnus | 28 Jul 2023
The technical textile segment in India has experienced robust growth, in domestic sales and in exports, and the government is predicting a doubling of the market in the next five years.
You don’t have to be James Bond to travel on a flying boat!
By A Correspondent | 19 Jul 2023
Flying boats are a reality. And they’ve been so for decades. Hovercraft, which are flying boats that literally float in the air have been in use since the late 1950s.
Amar Bose
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Jul 2023
Had it not been for a strange twist of fate more than a century ago, the Bose speakers, considered the best in their class of products, might never have been created, or even been imagined!
Potato shaving cream
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Mar 2023
One day I was sitting with some friends, when one of them, who was working with a marketing agency, asked the rest of us
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