Hi

Hello and welcome to the revamped 'Thoughtspot version 2.0'. However this time it is just called 'Keeping it simple' for the reason that thoughtspot was more about my takes on society and people around me however 'Keeping it simple' is about anything which I think is worth sharing on the blogosphere.
The main reasons for changing the blog were:

1) It gives me more freedom to write about the stuff I want to write without getting into issues like whether this would do any good to the image of my blog. As in on thoughtspot I did not feel like writing about marketing or social media. On 'keeping it simple' I don't need to think about it.

2) I changed my house, my gym, my net connection and my bai [:P] .. and hence I thought that it would be a good idea to change the looks of the blog too.

3) Change is good

You will find the following changes in the blog. Those who are here for the first time might like to know a little bit about me:
1) This is a purchased domain instead of a blogspot domain. Hence the web address is http://achintyagupta.com instead of http://achintya85.blogspot.com
2) Here you can read stuff of your choice from the tabs. As in those you want to read about society humor might just like to go to the 'random' tab. Whereas people interested in social media or marketing might click on other tabs. Hence I wont get people telling me that I have started writing about social media which they don't understand.
3)This is a new template, some new widgets and a new name

Moreover since I have not put up any proper post for the last couple of months, let me tell you what I have been up to since last 6 months.
1) So I passed out from IIT and joined an engineering and constructional major. Realized the job is not for me and left it in a record 30 days ( I don't think anybody has ever done that so soon post joining that company) I am not proud of it but then sort of keeping up the legacy of doing everything in style.
2) I was picked up by a super cool business strategy firm in Delhi. I am working with some awesome people and great projects. So mostly we are buried in work up to neck but then we also have a lot of fun. There is multi-cultural environment with people with British, Texan, south Indian and killer rock star accents, which is turning out to be a big problem for me as in I dont know what hybrid accent will I pick up hanging out with them.
Recently we launched a 'biggest loser contest' where the employee reducing the highest amount of 'his burden' from earth ( and it has to be more than 10 kgs) in three months gets a return trip to Bangkok. I was honorable outcasted from the competition but then I am fighting for my rights.
3) Life has been good since returning back to Delhi. There have been some awesome parties in the last few months with office colleagues where you realize that the sex ratio of IIT (which was 8:1 male:female) has suddenly been reversed. It's like God realized his mistake in the last 5 years and is making up for it.
4) I am travelling more and not just to the market outside IIT gate. So there have been trips to Corbett, Old Delhi and around. Not much to brag about but then then I am ensuring that on weekends I on not at my home.
5) Moreover when your work is to manage clients and projects, one always gets to meet new and some very smart people. So the last couple of months also included talking to movie directors, gaming companies, NGOs, entrepreneurs for business reasons.
6) And then how can my life be without goof ups. So the last 6 months also saw trying to ascend a descending escalator and getting hurt and remaining on bed rest for 5 days; telling an IIT senior '02 batch pass out about life @ IIT in a party (I did not know he was from my college until he told me) and then of course being seen with somebody twice on consecutive weekends by the same person in my office which I thought would definitely trigger some office gossip but then luckily it did not (looks like nobody cares!)
7) And finally I shifted my house near office so these days I walk to work. I have not bought a TV yet so that I go out more and blog more.