SOME 65 years after gaining our freedom, India’s enemies are now home-grown—corruption, inequality, malnutrition and illiteracy. How do we deal with these new-age enemies? My father and founder of the MBD Group, Shri AK Malhotra, assured me that every good deed left its mark. If we all left our ...
Sir Mark Tully speaks to DW about the changes that he has witnessed in this diverse, salad bowl of our country Could he have forgotten this one too? As I start looking worried standing outside his threshold, a neighbour (I am assuming she was a neighbour) asks me to wait in her office instead. She ...
Protests over Death DEATHS\\ Around 21 children who ate their midday meal at Dharamsati Primary School, Masrakh, in Bihar’s Saran district died overnight. Ten more children were left battling for their lives. Amarjeet Singh, Principal Secretary of education, confirmed that the final toll was arou...
Nelson Mandela Celebrates 95th Birthday
World Wishes the Leader BIRTHDAY\\ Nelson Mandela spend his 95th birthday in a hospital in Pretoria, as events were held around the world, and in South Africa, in his honour. South Africans were urged to mark the former President and anti-apartheid leader’s 67 years of public service with 67 minu...
Rupee Slides To its Lowest Value
Centre Caps FDI FINANCE// All hopes of an interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2013 fast evaporated as sliding currency and rising crude oil prices kept inflation high. Bonds prices fell and the Rupee fell the most in nearly two weeks despite the noise from the Centre about measu...
Malala Asked to Return to Pakistan
Taliban Writes Letter to Teen LETTER// A former Pakistan Air Force member-turned Taliban commander has curiously invoked Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus and Lord Buddha in a letter to teen activist Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in the head by his outfit, asking her to return home and use her pen for Islam. ...
Americans are drawn to India, more than China...”
I WOULD like to talk about why one needs visiting faculty, especially in a country like India. Think through the reasons for inviting visiting faculty, and the areas in which you need them. In the best Indian institutions, we (academics) use visiting faculty not for ‘routine teaching’ but to imp...
Collaborative Tools in the Classroom For something that wasn’t even around 10 years ago, much less part of any official curricula, social media—championed by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networking platforms—sure has seen a rather meteoric rise to a position where it dominate...
Or Would You Mind Your English? “CUT OUT ALL those exclamation marks,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald. “An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes.” I quite clearly remember the only time I used an ungrammatical set of exclamation marks: !!!!!!!!!!!!. Quite naturally, not having had t...
Anirban Das Blah, MD and CAA of Kwan, India’s leading talent management venture on how he christened his business, and how he grew it Anirban Blah loves to ‘KWANtify’ his relationships: which, he says, means putting people first, before business and profit. It might sound like corporate plati...
A massive deluge—a result of multiple natural and man made events— devastated Kedarnath in July and claimed some 580 lives. Heavy rainfall, too, formed a small lake in the north-west of the same valley and caused further damage. , and came down to Kedarnath town drowning everything on its path. ...
Films that evoke spirits of past cinematic masters I AM NOT usually sentimental about anniversaries, but this May, as the centenary celebrations of Indian cinema took place, I indulged myself a little by re-watching the 2009 Marathi film Harishchandrachi Factory. This is the story of Dadasaheb Phal...
Jagori asks the most important question; why are some treated differently from others? Can we start a thought with a metaphor? Say, there lies a bed in a house. Its four legs are of different heights. Would the bed stand steady? If not, how does one make the bed, steady? That was the question posed...
Pacy, racy and so, so much fun! A must-read for zombie fans THIS IS not Max Brooks’ first ode to the zombies, he’s been there and done it with The Zombie Survival Guide. With World War Z, he writes this addictively readable oral history—basically a collection of interviews—with people invol...
What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential JOHN MATTONE is a highly-respected name in the business leaders’ fraternity worldwide. Following his excellent work, Mattone has been recognised by the reputed Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading management gurus. Leadership Excellence Ma...
There’s only one thing you won’t find in Prague: and that is pretentiousness “I’ll never run into anyone I know,” I said to myself while packing my suitcase for a trip to Prague. Indeed, I had never even heard of the Czech Republic being touted as a trendy destination: all the glory seeme...
Chef Sim of R.E.D. believes tasty food is farm fresh and barely tampered with Before Chef Sim Poh Geok travelled to India in 2003, he was warned that the country was a really hot one. Chef landed in the nation’s capital on a wet, chilly morning, soaked and wet to his bones. Not just the weather, ...