Ajit Balakrishnan now has a blog. (via Kiruba). I enjoyed reading What next for Indian design and Am I cut out to be an entrepreneur. But I do wish that he would check for typos before he uploads his stuff.
Balakrishnan is the chairman of Rediff.com and was the co-founder and principal owner of Rediffusion advertising agency. Rediff’s aggressive and elegant advertisement campaigns for Congress-I in 1984 and ’89 campaigns changed the way political campaigns are run in India. Today, Balakrishnan is better known for Rediff which changed the rules of the game for web publishing in India. Apparently, he is also well known inside Rediff for practicing his golf swings in the corridors with an imaginary golf club.
I suspect a major part of the credit for Rediff’s web initiative also goes to Anita who from inside Rediff has been a tireless promoter weblogs in India.
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“…Rediff for practicing his golf swings in the corridors with an imaginary golf club.” Kaushik, this is news to me too 🙂
Actually, I haven’t done much on the initiate. At least not as much as I would have liked because the usual work pressures and other work. But hopefully, we can take it to the next level from here.
Ah, I heard that one when I was in Bangalore; from someone who used to work in Rediff. I guess this anecdote was too good to be true :-).
Hi… I am taking the previlege of writing directly to you. I have a certain concern about the very unprofessional response from your rediff shopping department… Is there an individual I can write to about the problem… The customer care ID seems to be of no particular use.
Regards,
George Xavier
Sub Lieutenant
Indian Navy
George:
I am sorry to hear that you did not get a good response from Rediff. I don’t work for Rediff, neither am I affiliated with it in any way. As such, I can not unfortunately be of much help.
I am taking the privilage of forwarding your complaint to someone on the Rediff staff with whom I am acquinted through her weblog. She might be able to forward it to the appropriate people on the Rediff staff.
Also, I am taking the liberty of removing your contact information from your comment. I am probably slightly old fashioned in thinking that it is not a hot idea to post your personal phone no on the web!
Hi… I am taking the previlege of writing directly to you. I placed 2 orders for this diwali for my parents in India. First of all both order reached very late despite promising by rediff that those will reach b4 diwali and then one the gift was missing gold coin (one of the gift item). I have already send 3 emails at shopping@rediff.co.in but nobody has bother to response back to me. I am really very disappointed with rediff shopping
hi ..
I have placed order on rediff..on 5th feb 2004…and date to delivered is 14th FEB 2004…
when i track my order it shows status pending..and also message/date column shows NA..but i have given message as well as delivery date which is 14th feb 2004…will my order reach on 14th feb …i have a strong doubt since my previous order took some 2 months to reach me…can we have some customer care or staff member’s phone number on which can clear out our quries…..plz do something about this…i want my order to reach on date time mentioned….
Deepak Thakur
deepak_4u@rediffmail.com
0202741195