Saturday, November 29, 2008. Some myths about the Indian rural marketne. In the aftermath of urban-rural convergence, rural market will be mainly an extension of urban markets and will eventually embrace the product and brand lifestyles of the latter, supported by higher disposable incomes, aggressive retail promotion and advertising. Fringe acceptance of consumer products or brands is no indication of market potential. It actually would only result in higher incidence of brand and product mortality .

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On living in a sci fi world. Massively online courses, MOOCs, are way of getting from point A to point B, adding technologies, concepts. The existence of specific world class MOOCs like this may be a fundamental challenge to the current educational enterprise.