Wanted; A Leader For Indians The General Elections–2014, Bharatiya Janata Party launched its campaign based on socioeconomic and aspirational politics uniting fragmented millions. After being elected leader of the BJP parliamentary party, Prime Minister-elect Mr Narendra Modi repeated his campaig...
Emotion, Leadership, Innovation
Meet the Director of Tata Sons, R. Gopalakrishnan, as he talks of human resources and leadership “Doing politics” (seen as non-student-like behaviour) vis-àvis studying (a benign student phenomenon) is a dichotomy that many from West Bengal higher education system will be familiar with. Long b...
Telengana, India’s 29th State NDA’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government swearing-in ceremony took take place on May 26, 2014. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa were among a slew of foreign dignitaries who arrived in Delhi to attend Modi’s ...
Boko Haram to Release Kidnapped Girls
US, UK Add Pressure Release// Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram is prepared to start releasing up to half of the kidnapped schoolgirls in the coming days after dropping demands for the release of top commanders in talks with the Nigerian government. The militant Islamist group, which kidnapped m...
What Really Happened Electi ons// The fact that BJP won a majority on its own in the 16th Lok Sabha has drawn comparisons with previous elections in which parties have won a majority of seats on their own. What has not quite figured in most of these comparisons is the fact that no party has ever be...
Thousands Flee Homes Flood// in Maglaj, Bosnia, tens of thousands fled their homes to escape the worst flooding in a century. Rapidly rising rivers surged into homes, sometimes reaching up to the second floors, sending people climbing to rooftops for rescue. Hundreds were also evacuated in Croatia....
I felt like a bird in a golden cage and longed for freedom”
A brief introduction might be appropriate to start our story but I shall try to be real brief. I have been practicing plastic surgery in Salaja hospital, Vijayawada since 1984 along with my husband, Dr M A Saleem, a General and a Laparoscopic surgeon. We were together as classmates since 1966 at Gu...
Crisis Management in the Age of Social Media
Social media crises need deft handling It’s a cakewalk, really. You know this thing called social media; setting up your social team, managing your company presence on a bunch of social networks, it’s all pretty easy…that is, it’s easy compared to handling a social media crisis in today’s...
Rajnish Sharma takes a walk down the literary path with Anita Nair, as she knits a creative web of words For someone who started out as a closet writer, Anita Nair has penned a splendid destiny for herself under the sun with her talent out there for all to see (rather read) and marvel at. She admit...
The lure of these mountains.... That the best boarding schools in Bengal were in the mountains is a home-grown truism that has been in circulation for almost a 100 years now. The British only intended to set up a sanatorium in Darjeeling, an accessible resort like town where the Europeans, lashed b...
It was a landmark judgement by the apex court in April 2014 granting transgenders recognition and identity in Indian society. They became the third sex and came under other backward castes as an economically backward class of society. A significant step no doubt, but is it sufficient? Inder Salim//...
Unsung and unrecognised brigade of Bollywood Movie-watching has traditionally been a larger-than-life experience. That may no longer apply in the YouTube and smartphone age, where a screen can be smaller than the length of one’s hand, but most people still agree that the proper way to experience ...
Roadmap to right rural Development
Drishtee’s vision of self-sustaining social development at the grassroots informs all its endeavours. It is Drishtee’s vision for sustainable communities that sets it apart from many other social enterprises working in the field. What makes it a visionary is not so much any grand idea, but in t...
Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal I first came across the Cambridge Four–a ring of British spies recruited by Soviet Union scout Arnold Deutsch–thanks to my obsession over an actor who played (still does) detective Sherlock Holmes in BBC’s Sherlock. It was while 'researching' my favourite act...
A book that celebrates small town India. “Country roads take me home to the place I belong…” John Denver immortalised West Virginia with this hit song in 1971. But he did more than that. His folk-pop song evoked nostalgia in the hearts of the many small town folks who had migrated to big citi...
Tour an exotic bit of our globe I have one piece of advice for people who are going to Ladakh for the first time: make your first trip as long as you can. The sense of feeling like a tiny speck amidst the grandeur of nature—these are emotions that you will never be able to conjure up on subsequen...
It is not just Jharkhand’s dance and music,but its identity that Mukund Nayak has taken to the world stage The dhols beat synchronously, the nagaras take up the loud chant; the shehnai interrupts rapturously taking up the notes higher, as the thekoda, ber, narsingha, kara, nakara, jhanj and karta...