Snowman is as smooth as the Volvo and is from the same Northern Europe thriller mould as the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, again a book adaption from its namesake. The canvas it’s beautiful, with solid character actors. A good watch although strictly R18 with the gore.

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In the era of now

Bringing money on the table

Buys respect

More people

Fewer Opportunities

In Academia, is grants

In the private sector

Is called Business Development

In the Non Profit space

It’s known as Fund Raising

The bottom line is the green back

Bitcoin or not

Money is the fuel of the engine

Of life

The Sustainability business works on two counts: regulatory drivers or it reduces cost. No social good thing works ‘sustainably’

Regulatory compliance has its roots in ecological and social justice translated in to policies and projects, undergirded by politics and law.

Cost savings in a recessionary economy is the holy grail. The sweet spot is often when solutions are simple; reduced to an ROI number, reflected in an excel budget sheet. This would require technology, law and economics to blend in seamlessly, which is an intellectually uphill task.

Remember, the client has the same information as you; Google is pretty democratic.

Writing is an act of reclamation

Of stories

Of truth

Truth which might not be yours

Of histories

Of narratives of lived experiences

Language is a weapon

Chisel it all the time

As it is used to erase identities

After all

Brands are built with content and context but most importantly with conversations with stakeholders. Inactive brands are as Impactful as stationary billboards.

Pleased to see Oman Tourism sponsor good shows on Fox Life, a premier lifestyle channel in India. And it’s a terrific advert too with Royal Opera House and Musandam visuals in it.

Imperialism has not ended

It just got recirculated

As Standard Operating Procedures

Well, i write

For showing a mirror

For voicing a perspective

Not to build a brand with purpose

Brands are created by authencity

A punch

A nudge

A pat on the back

Sometimes just write

Stories regarding the Persian Gulf and it’s migrant communities from South Asia and the Philippines have had narratives written about them by coconut academics; brown outside, white inside pandering to western human right agendas (while western expatriates for decades have earned billions over the last fifty years of Gulf Oil Boom/ vested interests are severe)

It’s high time that narratives are written from the ground up, and it would be wonderful if a few academics or normal folks can document, narrative and invert the conversation.

Write to inform and engage, this tenure track business creates agendas. I thank Prof Mohan Dutta for bestowing the training to attempt to record these stories although I work in the engineering business again!

Kingsman 2 is a funny, engaging spy watch. Thriller is not a term for this film, as the humour is subtle and very Brit. The film is as global as it can get from the UK to mid western United States to Italy to Cambodia and Singapore. The plot regarding substance abuse has a lot of layers and it’s fleshed out in a melodramatic musical vein with a liberal dash of Elton John innit (Brit pun intended). Julianne Moore as the drug lord with a Harvard MBA, with CEO oops psychopath characteristics is smooth laced with cynical artificial charm aces the role, who treats substance abuse as a legitimate pharma product, arm twisting the world with spiked products with a secret antidote.

A lead GOT actor, gets a meaty role with Colin Firth, exemplifying class. The film at times had a Bollywood type cinematic texture to it. It was a tad stretched at 140 minutes plus. Thoroughly enjoyable watch for its action sequences and complex story with various sub plots, with relevance to the era we live in including references to Tinder, Glastonbury, 20 hour work days, robotic pets and the role pharmaceutical capitalism plays in our interconnected world.

An enjoyable one time watch.

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