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What is October Surprise ? ( learnt new term today ) In the politics of the United States, an October surprise is a news event that may influence the outcome of an upcoming November election (particularly one for the presidency), whether deliberately planned or spontaneously occurring. Because the date for national elections (as well as many state and local elections) is in early November, events that take place in October have greater potential to influence the decisions of prospective voters and allow less time to take remedial action; thus, relatively last-minute news stories could either change the course of an election or reinforce the inevitable. The term "October surprise" was coined by William Casey in 1980 presidential campaign ( Courtsey Wikipedia ) do you feel iran escalation is October surprise ?

What is common between SME IPO & #COLDPLAY concert ? Both are getting 10x subscriptions in recent times. #COLDPLAY concert 1.5 lakh tickets received overwhelming response of 13 lakh users ( each can buy upto 8 tickets ) on #bookmyshow and platform got crashed due to this response. Organiser changed the venue and additional capacity installed for the tickets but still thousands fans didnt get the tickets so far. Please note concert is in Jan 2025 and tickets open for sale on 22 Sept 2024 ( yesterday ) Taylor Swift concerts had changed the economy of many countries and so as new term coined is 'swiftnomics'. eg Singapore Swift concert has seen 2.7 % increase in economy size QoQ basis as per Monetary Authority of Singapore ( MAS ) Swift's fans flock to cities hosting her concerts, significantly boosting lodging, food, transportation, and merchandise spending. In fact, airlines have even added extra flights to accommodate the surge in fan travel. Nomura also reported Eras Tour in US alone added consumer spending of $5 Billion . Event management business to grow in india from 1500 crore to 20000 crore and Zomato getting ready to launch DISTRICT app which may comepete with book my show in coming months. Don't Panic .....in my place.....a sky is full of stars ( Cold play popular songs ) Viksit Bharat indications in coldplay concert may boost Economy through concerts too.

Somewhere in governeance report almost funny term used " Responsible AI ". While surfing more about this term , volumes of new information to facilitate this tem found on internet. Companies and Influencers talk about policy which may contain some responsibility for AI but actually they mean responsibility of the organisation who promote such AI systems and part thereof. Internet as such do not contain trustworthiness and AI features which actually enable to loose more trust and so hence responsibility does not gel well with AI at all. Infact AI system itself do not know much about term Responsible. One may say , Internet + Trust = Blockchain which may have capability to take responsibility to restore trust. More people use AI , faster and better blockchain to arrive for sure. New alphbets understanding may be like A for AI , B for Blackchain , C for Cloud , D for Data .... What digital term you want to associate with your first letter of name ?

Recent reads about various upcoming brands in Indian market , I was surprised to note how Reliace updating its brand portfolio to emerge as FMCG company. Apart from CampaCola , few niche brands also belong to Relaince. Snactac , Glimmer , Puric, Enzo , get real are upcoming brands for Relaince Consumer. While you get updated with these new brands , we can only say Balls just started rolling and more brands shall emerge from the conglomarate Reliance as fast as possible ,as they know, market matrix keep changing fast.

It was usual to pay toll while driving through a long stretch of National highways or bridge, but when it was decoded as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which the government introduced it long back while making heavy infrastructure on BOT basis - the revenue model was quite simple to collect fees (toll) from users who pass by the specific highway/bridge. In a cloud world today, we have seen Software as a Service (SaaS) and many popular examples around for SaaS companies. Similarly, there are Platform as a Service (PaaS) companies around. When I recently came to know about Battery as a Service (BaaS) , I was surprised to see an innovative business model which may recently introduced as an innovative initiative for mobility. Recently, MG Windsor launched the Battery as a Service (BaaS) concept and industry veterans and market look forward to studying more about this campaign. The basic price of the Automobile unit is lesser and the user needs to pay 3.5 rs/km for battery usage. It means no future heavy cost involved and the user can have a fresh battery whenever they need to replace the battery. MG got more attention as the unit cost drastically reduced to a few lakhs (5-7 lakh) and the cherry on the top is for the first year all charging shall be free of cost. Of course, these are primary information received through the internet but it has taken attention for EV seekers at large. The world has truly entered into a collaboration economy where capitalism's new template is rentalism. Your views are welcome

Since LAMY introduced fountain pen for Indian Market , I tried few of these versions over the last two decades. My favourite fountain pen LAMY with Bold nib gave me sense of identity so far as writing in diary is concerned , particularly January of each year where the flair for picking new diary and start writing more about thoughts and to do lists. I observed keenly , how LAMY fountain pen price which went up from 400 Rs to 4000 Rs in a span of 10 years, and also observed , fountain pen seem rare selection by people who flare to write/sign when more choice for selection available in the market. I also compare LAMY ink pen with famous case study of Kodak cameras which did not cope up with market dynamic matrix . Suprisingly I come across reading about LAMY safari note+ digital pen recently introduced which is manly used for tablets. I found satisfied as brand LAMY tried its best to cope up with the market trends. LAMY in traditional pen market may be luxury product but positioning in Digital market above industry vetran Apple will be challanging task as such. Market viewers having cross finger about the evolving trends by the old player to the new market. le(t) me see ....

Recent report says Tirumala Tirupati Devsthanam ( TTD ) where 70k-100K daily pilgrims visits; faces severe shortage of water. October major event may attract more visitors( 1.5 -2 times ) and current water storage capacity at 4 major water bodies is at app 25% level ( 21500 Lakh Litre ) If mid of Monsoon we have such reports , Its time to work on water conservation and storage.

Tangible parameters will help to study where businesses are heading. Blinkit received 693 rakhi orders per minute ( OPM ) yesterday - highest ever. India was skeptical about ecommerce a decade back and quick commerce tangible paramater Orders Per Minute ( OPM ) crossed all time high . Gross Merchandise Value ( GMV ) for Rakshbandhan 2024 on 18-19 Aug 2024 shall reach to 12000 crore. Another very interesting trend notable is instead chocalates indian sweets like Laddu, Gulab Jamun and kaju Katli orders are on rise. Bijapurkur rightly mentioned in her book ( we are like that only ) about Indians and thier choices. When 3 major economy of the world is little tricky about recession, India shining and shows inherent strength. ( Reading Source : X and Mint )

It was indeed surpising to meet young Turks of our family in recently arranged family get together. siddhant introduced me to his hobby of reading web novel and his favorite Korean web novel has more than 3150 chapters and still author adds more chapters every week.He also updated that popular web novel is tracked by animators and they start working on small episodes on these novel. Young Siddhant is passionate about augemnted reality and very well narrated stories what he read recently. Maitri talks about her reading passion of fiction and few of non fiction books. She had read quite a few books and one story he briefly described was amazing Arjun, just started working recently, amused me with many redommedation he made for Nolan and anderson movies.His understanding about recent developments in Hollywood/ bollywood really helped me to understand few trends and likings of generation z. Anjali , Neha , Priyam, Divya, Lavya, Chinky who are generation Z of our family keep me updated about thier passion and hobby and it enrich me at one go about what's happening in the world. ( ofcourse through thier perspectives ) how blessed you are having interaction with generation Z ?

Most agri based research in the world were of LAB2LAND where as few initiatives like #Sodhyatra #SRISTI #HoneyBee #NIF #GIAN which have adopted model of LAND2LAB. Farmers insights and wisdom when considered in research, have given new dimensions to agriculture productivity. Invite sharing such incidents of LAND2LAB