Making Medical Care Accessible
QUIZ A THOUSAND and they would let you know that a hospital visit ranks as the numero uno of things “to avoid” in a lifetime. Unfortunately, we have to visit a hospital sometime in our lives; either for us or worse, for a loved one. Hospitals and associative indicators— sterilised corridors, a...
Not just his surgeon’s scalpel, his business brain and ‘undoctor-like’ attachment to his patients ensures that Dr Naresh Trehan stands out. PRESENT: Gianormous is not a word. However, there are times when one needs to resort to not words to describe something as big as Medanta–The Medicity...
POLITICS // West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee walked out of an interactive television show hosted by a famous media house, after losing her cool when students of Calcutta, Presidency and Jadavpur universities asked her questions on democracy and administration under the Trinamool governm...
INTERNATIONAL// Francois Hollande of the French Socialist Party became the 24th French President in closely contested elections on May 6, 2012, taking charge of a debt-ridden nation. A champion of ‘government stimulus programmes’, Hollande belongs to the breed of leaders who believe that it ...
ACCIDENT // Thirteen Indians were among the 15 passengers who were killed in a plane crash in northern Nepal in May. The plane which was carrying 21 passengers crashed after it hit a hill-top while attempting to land at a high altitudinal airport. Only six passengers survived. The list of survivo...
Maldonado wins Spanish Grand Prix
SPORTS // Team Williams’ Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado registered his victory at the Spanish Grand Prix, outsmarting stars like Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen on May 13, 2012, in Barcelona. Maldonado finished his final of the 66 laps at the Catalunya Circuit 3.19 seconds ahead of Alonso, ...
New Members of the Rajya Sabha
NOMINATION // Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, industrialist Anu Aga and Bollywood actor Rekha became the latest Members of the Rajya Sabha, as the Centre announced their names in the new list of entrants for 2012. President Pratibha Patil approved the names under Article 80 of the Indian Constitution ...
In the US, there are no Bengalis, Gujaratis, Hindus or Muslims. They are Indians”
VIVEK WADHWA: My father was in the Indian Foreign Services and as a result of that even though I was born in New Delhi, I never really lived in India. As a family we stayed in Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia (in fact, I am an Australian citizen) and the US. When I was really young my father was poste...
7 Key Decisions to Social Media
Articulate your Social Media Strategy for an Enterprise The adoption of social media has been increasing in enterprises at a rapid pace across the world. As the social media ‘behaviour’ or the way it engages with the community, forms an impression about the brand of the enterprise in the minds ...
Great ideas and clever people aren’t the only arsenal your marketing plans need. Often, technology is the missing link DOES YOUR CMO have a tech strategy? Nope, that’s not a typo. I am talking about a technology strategy, not a marketing strategy. And before you ask, for a marketer, technology...
From being a bride at 15 years to a mother at 16, to running a beauty empire, Shahnaz Husain, the czarina of Indian beauty business, has done it all... I was born into a conservative family. But, I was fortunate to have a broad minded, Oxford-educated father in Chief Justice NU Beg, who put me thr...
A Closer Look At Right To Education A Classless India: The RTE Dream
In 2009 when the Government of India brought the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) to force, the mood was celebratory. However the win-win situation soon started to sour as questions began to be raised about the pragmatic execution of the Act. After more than three years of the Act im...
Is China grabbing the South China Sea?
Why the West should sit up and notice the Sleeping Giant NAPOLEON warned us that China was a sleeping giant best left undisturbed. No longer. The giant is well awake and not only has the West disturbed it, many of the West’s elite appear to fear it. Nowhere is this more true than when it comes t...
Sara Pilot and Lora Prabhu, co-founders of Cequin have one thing in common—their commitment to women’s issues “I hope we can make things different. Otherwise Lora and I would just pack up Cequin,” says Sara Pilot, founder, Centre for Equity and Inclusion (Cequin). It is this never-say-die ...
An incredible story about the Neeraj Grover murder. Uncovered brilliantly and written lucidly by a first-time author HUMANS, ESPECIALLY writers, have always been intrigued by the topic of death. It is partly due to this fascination, and partly due to the larger-than-life, cinematic quality to th...
A one of its kind plot and book from the Japanese author THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X is a distinctive book—a murder mystery, and not quite. It begins faithfully enough; with a murder and an investigation (as they should). But The Devotion of Suspect X conveniently leaves that format behind within f...
Desolate and breathtaking, Ladakh has a rugged magic to it I visited Switzerland after I went to Ladakh. I sincerely wish it had been the other way around. That is because all the romantic Bollywood hype about plush, enchanting and picture-perfect Switzerland pales in comparison to the stark, nake...
Kitchen Stories of a Culinary Writer
Chef, author, publisher and restaurateur—meet Nita Mehta, grand lady of the kitchen While other children were busy munching on cakes and cookies that their mothers baked during summer holidays, Nita Mehta was busy making them. As she puts it, “I really had it in me to cook and stay in the kitc...
