Learning is painful. RC and I rediscovered this when we met one of India’s leading tech / internet business gurus on Friday. We were asked many many questions that forced to re-examine how we were going about developing our plan. There were several ‘back to the drawing-board moments’ as well. All these have to led [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Back to the Drawing Board
Posted in WHAT'S UP?, tagged meeting tech/internet gurus; "who are we" on March 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thank God it’s Friday (almost)
Posted in WHAT'S UP? on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In another couple of days from now we launch the beta (trial) version of our first online offering in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society. The design and tech are done – now they are just being married. Husband and wife are taking some time to get to know each other. Afterall, what [...]
The Creative Process
Posted in WHAT'S UP?, tagged inclusive planet; logo on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There’s something truly amazing about the creative process. The journey that begins with a white canvas and, stroke by stroke, takes the form of art. Most often, I wonder about the process of writing poetry or composing a song. How they all begin as nothing more than a thought. The thought, then, travels a certain [...]
The Disabled as a Vote Bank
Posted in GEEKABLE, Policy, tagged mithu alur; vote-bank approach; policy on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An excellent piece by the amazing Mithu Alur (Head of ADAPT – formerly Spastics Society of India) on how taking the vote-bank approach is the best strategy to ensure inclusive thinking at a policy level. http://telegraphindia.com/1090324/jsp/opinion/story_10693815.jsp Excites us because we believe that Inclusive Planet could go a long way in ensuring one voice of a [...]
Obama’s Special Olympics gaffe on Jay Leno
Posted in THIS AND THAT on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know if you guys have been following all the noise surrounding Obama’s remark on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (couple of days back). The controversy arose when, while speaking about his skills at bowling (the game), Obama laughed at himself and said ‘It was like the Special Olympics or something’. Hmmm. Not [...]
Disabled-friendly – A marketing tool or what?
Posted in THIS AND THAT, tagged disabled-friendly;marketing tool on March 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This blog is not to state an opinion or pass a judgement. This is meant to describe a conversation that may have been fairly insignificant if I were not involved with Inclusive Planet. Yesterday I went checking out a business center for our office. While showing me around the 5-star facilities, the marketing lady made [...]
The artist on his work – Pervez Rajan speaks about the logo
Posted in The Team, WHAT'S UP? on March 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was AWOL all of December last year and January this year – or so I’m told. Resultantly, MMI went logo shopping. They showed me what had been done thus far by 2-3 different designers; none of it was exciting or interesting, or even close to it. At the end of it all, after a [...]
First Post
Posted in The Team, tagged rahul cherian; introduction on March 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hello all, As this is my first post ever, on any blog, I’d better introduce myself! My name is Rahul Cherian and I am one of the founders of Inclusive Planet. I am a lawyer by profession and I have been running my own law firm in Chennai. I have been disabled since the time [...]
Open Positions at Inclusive Planet
Posted in The Team, WHAT'S UP?, tagged IP; recruitment on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Build this with us. Yep. This is a call for applications to join us (for our vision click here). We’re not looking for employees – we don’t believe in employees. We believe in co-founders. Come join us in our efforts to build the world’s largest online community and marketplace for the differently-abled. In the process [...]
Manic Monday
Posted in WHAT'S UP?, tagged investor meetings; rahul's i10; hand operated on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Busy busy Monday. RC and I met a couple of potential investors. Regardless of whether or not these meetings result in funding they are hugely educative. There is always that one point you never thought of, or not quite in that fashion. Blinker-breakers. Incidentally, we travel around in RC’s super-cool i10 – which is completely [...]
