SIM Card with Chappal
By Techgirl

Over the years, Techgoss has published a number of exclusive human interest photos with some IT, BPO, KPO and Telecom links to the images.  These include:

-In July, 2010, during our first Photo Competition, Techgoss had published exclusive photos of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg attired in Indian clothes and dancing at a wedding in India.  This photo was republished by a number of popular blogs including Gawker, Pluggdin and others.

-Sometime back, a Tipster sent in photos of the marriage ceremony for Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia.

-In Feb, 2011, as part of our last photo competition, our exclusive photo of the Facebook shop in Mumbai went viral

And there were many more including one of Infosys branded samosas being sold in Pune. Techgoss had also published a photo of Nokia branded underwear being sold in India. Every major western brand and Trademark has been used (misused?) without getting official permission.

It is a cut throat market selling mobile phones.  Too much competition and too much choice! Techgoss reader TechWolv spotted the above ad in Mumbai. For those readers not familiar with the most popular Indian language in Mumbai, the Marathi in the advertisement says:

“
Buy any Chappal (What Slippers are called in India) pair and get IDEA SIM Card FREE!
“

I never knew that competition was so bad that you could get Telecom company IDEA’s SIM card with slippers. BTW, what’s Airtel also doing in the ad?

Rs. 1000 will be sent to TechWolv for sending in the photo.

Do you have such human interest photos as well?  For really exclusive photos we will pay you Rs. 5000, for most you will get a minimum of Rs. 1000. Anonymity guaranteed if you prefer your name is not used with the photo.  If your photos are very exclusive, we will give you Rs. 5000 plus a SIM Card.

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.