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Booking an international flight first time?

Booking your international flight is a big deal, especially if you are doing it for the first time. Booking process is still simple and straight: go to any of the booking engine, my favorite being expedia.com . Give in your search criterion for flights, choose the best option and book it there itself. However you need to optimize your bookings for various factors such as: Duration of Flight /  Number of hops  - You can sort out your flight choices on expedia.com and other booking engines. Needless to say flights are boring and it is best to keep your duration short. Your flight duration goes up as the number of hops. Expect each hop to delay you by at least 2 hours. Ideally you reach any remote location in at max 3 hops. International flights connect major cities only and expect more hops as your final destination go to tier 2 and tier 3 cities. Expedia gives you all the possible combinations and all you have to do is to choose the ones which are the shortest and satisfy other cons

What is Love?

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Why this article? My wife requested, asked, warned and then threatened me to write this. Why this article? One year back I was with my school friends in a cafe at Jaipur when I announced my marriage. Folks knew that it was a love marriage but there weren't clear about what's happening. One of them asked me, What is love and why are you even marrying? I told him instantly that I want to spend my life with her and that is why I am marrying her. Yes, to enjoy each other's company is a very important part but then there is also a special feeling which takes it beyond companionship. This feeling has different meaning for different people but I will write here what it means for me :) I will try to put my feelings objectively in following points: Nothing is better than spending time together Selflessness - You get a feeling that it doesn't matter whether you get benefited or your partner in course of action. You start thinking in terms of how it benefits to both

Custom Made Products vs Factory Made Products

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During last 2 centuries world has moved towards industrialization and factory institutions. The financial models are more and more based on scale rather than anything else. Globalization has further pumped the industrialization model and products made by industries are targeting wider audiences and are not restricted by geographical locations. In developing economies such as that of India, where industrialization is still penetrating the market, we see that conventional producers are slowly eloping in the shadows of centralized production units. Today customer no more buys goods produced in his locality, but buys what any other guy would have bought in a remote location who may be of a different age, religion, or taste. I am not only talking about good produced but also for services provided. Education, for e.g., has become a factory system where schools as industries are catering a similar product to all its students. 500 students of same class come to school, absorb same curriculu