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I always have maintained that Naivedyam offers the best South Indian food in Gurgaon. Although it has another outlet at Sohna Road, the Sushant Lok one is more accessible and centered. It is situated in between Vyapar Kendra and DLF Galleria on a road which is in bad need of repair. If you go there at night, you might be surprised at the choice of location which gives you quite a deserted feeling. But once you enter this place, it is always bustling with patrons, most of them repeat customers who are regulars to this place. Buttermilk is a welcome drink they offer to all customers.  Their portions of chutneys and sambars are always generous, still, don't hesitate to ask more as they are always eager to help. The service is very quick and captains give you good recommendations. My favorite is Benne Masala Dosai, although all Dosais are good. If not interested in a Dosa, go for the Naivedyam Thali which is fulfilling and is a hearty meal. Sharing pictures of Erulli Masa...

The weather has delayed some of the participants of a meet up where famed Punjabi singer Guru Randhawa was supposed to discuss his Bollywood debut. Yet, as he entered with his entourage into the room, his first question was whether we are starting on time or not. Dressed all in black, with matching glares, Guru didn't give any inkling or air about the star he is. As the evening progressed, Guru discussed a range of topics major being his cult song, Suit, which is being adapted for an upcoming movie, Hindi Medium starring Irfan Khan. He passionately discusses why content to him is very important. He writes the lyrics of his songs himself to get those right words into his songs. When he tells the audience that he is looking forward to Hindi movies because of larger reach he does not sound very ambitious, instead very humble and grounded. Inspiration for Suit Opening up to the son Suit, Guru elaborates that he as inspired to write the song, while at an event in California, U...

Love has its various ways is the debut book by Divya Kapoor. In this book, she elucidates about love and its impact on life. She has various life lessons for us to learn. It is a self-help book for readers to become “self-life coach.” “Hi-end technology has engaged people enough to make them go away from their own selves,” Kapoor says. “This book enables one to connect back with oneself, finding one’s own purpose and following the workbook as a step-by-step guide to becoming the most inspiring person you have ever known.” The book is neatly divided into neat little chapters, around of them. I especially liked the one on forgiveness. (Forgive to Enlarge future) The chapter highlights forgiveness and how important it is for us to grow and move ahead. I could relate with this as all around me, I see how people hold deep rooted grudges and refuse to move on. Divya Kapoor hopes “people realize the power within, understand that love is the only truth and love for ourselve...

I have been to all 3 Amicis, one in Khan Market another in Saket and this one at Cyber Hub. This is one is the best out of all three. Spacious, well designed and decorated, it gives you a very chilled out vibe. No one is in a hurry here and the pasta is World class. Could have done better with the portions though.  Their desserts are good too. Shakes are pretty much like what you get elsewhere, my opinion would be to try their Oreo Shake which is a must.

In a very young age, through grit and determination, Rachit is making a mark in the blogging field. I really admire his focus on content marketing and how easily he has adopted best practices for promoting content.  Some words about your blog Well, I own multiple blogs. I will talk about one that I started with, Hacknovations. Where I share tips and tricks about being a smart blogger, and growing a blog into a revenue stream. I started it back in 2015, it grew dramatically but then, due to some problems, I wasn't able to take care of it, so decreased gradually. Now, I am working again on it, hoping that it will grow back soon. Other of my blogs are doing fine though.  What do you think sets your site apart from others? Passion. I have seen a lot of blogs coming and vanishing. I have talked with bloggers and I know that most of the bloggers are pushed into blogosphere to make money not to blog. I am not pulled by money, which is clear from the fact that I d...

The most challenging thing for a business is to make clients and customers and to do that one needs a marketing strategy, especially if you are a startup. Every day dozens of startups are introduced and most of them are related to technology. In such market, it's very hard to make a presence let alone converting it into a brand. So the companies are opting for various marketing strategies in order to benefit and have successful marketing campaigns.                                     There a lot of options available to promote a business online most common of which are social media, content marketing, SEO, SEM or paid marketing (google Adwords, bing, yahoo), and more. But the one channel that remains on top by outperforming the rest is the email. Email has been one of the oldest and most effective ways of promoting and creating awareness of a business among people. So if you are an esta...

I talked about AtoZChallenge and Blogger in my previous posts and this one is as the letter series goes is for the letter C. C as in Customer retention. First, let me explain what do I mean as a customer here. A customer can be a client, a consumer of your services or your target audience.  Customer acquisition is not that hard these days especially with all those social media tools and easy to set up advertising.  What is difficult is retention. Especially with attention times which are only getting less by each passing day. How do you make sure that stickiness is maintained for your regular consumers when the competition has a red carpet rolled out for them.  Stay updated with your analytics. It is not just a fancy tool but something very meaningful to guide you as to where your audience is moving towards. Talk to your audience. They should feel that connect we have in a normal conversation. Follow industry trends. Whichever field you have chosen f...

Blogger has been an integral part of my blogging life. It pioneered the blogging revolution along with Typepad and Wordpress. As with many great tech evolutions, Google bought blogger with an aim to garner more users and more business, especially for Adwords. Google Adwords literally grew up with Blogger. So what's the future ahead for this service which started almost 17 years ago? (It began operations in 1999) What should ideally have been its biggest rising point, in fact, turned out to be a disadvantage for blogger. After its acquisition by tech major Google, its popularity dwindled much like what happened with Orkut. Wordpress which was already gaining ground in 2003 is now the much-preferred choice of bloggers. Many say that it is because Wordpress chose to be independent whereas Google was perceived to be controlling, this happened. I personally have never found any problem with blogspot and have been blogging here since 2006. I was tempted to move to Wo...

I was recently invited for a meet and greet program at this new place The Junction, which is owned and operated by Mr. Umang Tewari. The USP of the place is location.The location is absolutely brilliant. Bang on the main Aurobindo Marg, near the Metro Station and in the heart of the Green Park and Hauz Khaz hubs. You enter this place, and the first thing you think is 'how beautiful.' The 20,000 sq. ft. the area has been wonderfully done up with modern art and snappy colors. You hardly get to see so much outdoor space in Delhi food hotspots. They have divided the whole place in several short eateries like the bakery (The Big Baker), the Pizzeria, Sushi Place, The Bar, Potet etc. The story is all good until you get to the service. It does not lack in courtesy but speed. The food is good but then looking at such lush ambiance your expectations automatically go up. What I had was mostly I...

A to Z Challenge is one challenge I always wanted to do. One has to write 26 blogs in April, each one beginning with a letter of the English Alphabet. I was thinking what is that one thing that starts with A or is themed around it, which is significant enough to write on it. Then I realized oh. I got to write about the A to Z Challenge.  A to Z is like 7 years old challenge. Yups, right. It is old. For bloggers, it is like a ritual they must perform once in their blogging life. I have been putting it off for 4-5 years I guess.Many bloggers complain about the lack of time or energy. Hence unable to do this. Others feel that it restricts their imagination as they are bound by a set of rules.  Here is my take on this -  If you are a blogger and love blogging, you got to do this. You will connect with the global brethren of fellow bloggers who are also undertaking the same challenge. Trust me, its always fun to write as a group rather than doing it all alone...