One day in 2008, Vic Gundotra, Google's then vice-president of engineering, got a call from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. "I've been looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I'm not happy with the icon," said Jobs.
"The second O in Google does not have the right yellow gradient." Such was his attention to detail and commitment to quality. "When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it," Jobs once said. "You will know it's there.... For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
Twenty years ago, THE WEEK was the first magazine in India to acknowledge the importance of quality in health care by ranking the best hospitals in the country. Today, it remains the only magazine to offer a credible hospital ranking. "In 20 years of its Best Hospitals survey, THE WEEK has not asked anyone for any favour," said the magazine's Chief Associate Editor and Director, Riyad Mathew, at THE WEEK Best Hospitals Awards 2024 in Hyderabad on December 6. "We feel it is not the right way to take such important information to our readers. We seek to make sure that the entire process is as transparent as possible, and that's why we have here today the very best people from the finest institutions."
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Circle of influence
The circle of influence is not an isolated one. It is etched by myriads of experiences, relationships and learnings that we amass, helping us address tectonic shifts in life.
people
Andrew Garfield and Shraddha Kapoor was a cross-pollination waiting to happen.
Women riders and drivers
I am honestly surprised at how little interest the rest of India has in the Himalayan region in general. Right from Kashmir and Ladakh to Himachal, Uttarakhand and the northeast-these areas are filled and fueled by their own unique stories and histories, but are almost foreign to the rest of us.
The 'made in heaven' couple
Sobhita Dhulipala won countless hearts-and broke a few-when she married actor Naga Chaitanya at a hyper traditional Telugu Brahmin ceremony, where every ritual was scrupulously followed.
Raj Kapoor's socialism was Nehruvian
No other Indian actor or director was as popular in Russia, Eastern Europe and China as Raj Kapoor was.
The world is his canvas
Kochi-Muziris Biennale curator Nikhil Chopra views his new role as an evolution of his artistic practice to that of a collaborator
A FORGOTTEN ROAD
William Dalrymple's new book traces ancient India's role in spreading ideas and religions across the world
TALES FROM THE TOURS
India lost one match after another in this competition, except against East Africa.
We should not play Pakistan at all
If Mohinder Amarnath's life was a movie, it would be a franchise with too many sequels to count. He describes it as a 'Hitchcock thriller.
Merry Christmas and all that
You have a shell-shocked car, but Hukum has a fine bum,\" said the missus in a muffled voice.
