Be joyous, be free
By Manish Maladkar Each day is a chance to invest in life; a chance to renew yourself. To shed yesterday’s skin. To unburden yourself. To get rid of yesterday’s hurt. Be glad of life each...
View ArticleSoftware firms in India have good hiring plans, jobs meltdown is a media myth
By Saurabh Srivastava I am mystified at the unholy glee with which a section of the media is writing off an industry that should be celebrated. One of the greatest success stories of modern India,...
View ArticleAfter three years, its a new morning for India
By Anil Agarwal Demonetisation was announced on November 8, 2016. That one night changed the fortunes of many and brought good luck to many others. History was created. Some slept peacefully while...
View ArticleWhat PM Narendra Modi Can Teach President Donald Trump
By Sandip Roy In the world of nonsense rhyme, there is a round, pouting creature called Kumro Potash, best translated from its Bengali original as the Pumpkin Puff. When the Kumro Potash runs, everyone...
View ArticleCustomer Focused
By: SYLVIE BARDAUNE ET AL Growing numbers of companies are coming to recognise the benefits of customer-centric strategies: higher revenues, lower costs and stronger employee and customer loyalty. In...
View ArticleIT industry to have 7 million direct and 10 million indirect jobs by 2025: N...
By N Chandrasekaran Next to a news report bemoaning the lack of job creation in the IT industry in a business newspaper last week, there was an advertisement looking for UX/UI designers, full stack web...
View ArticleA work in progress
By James Manyika The world of work is in a state of flux, which is causing considerable anxiety — and with good reason. There is growing polarisation of labour-market opportunities between high and...
View ArticleBecome a witness
By Sukshmananda Swami Detachment is not indifference or lack of love. In fact, it is real love because it is not related to appearance. Witness has no attachment and, hence, no detachment is needed....
View ArticleGeneral Bipin Rawat could be the architect of a new working pattern for the army
By: Pranab Dhal Samanta There’s a discernible churn in the army, and its new chief General Bipin Rawat is at the heart of it. No need to start judging just yet. But it’s important to...
View ArticleOnly NCERT textbooks for schools is not the right way forward
By: Ankit Gupta As a publisher of school textbooks and an owner of a private school, I often find myself in the unique position of observing educational publishing from both ends of the table. So,...
View ArticleProduct dynamics
By: C GNANASAMBANDAM ET AL Product managers are the glue that bind the many functions that touch a product: engineering, design, customer success, sales, marketing, operations, finance, legal and more....
View ArticleThe golden mean & pairs
By: Akhil Chandra We live in a world of opposites where gain and loss, good and bad, pleasure and pain, life and death are as inevitable as the two sides of a coin. Yet, there...
View ArticleMake In India: Weaponising defence buying
By: Subimal Bhattacharjee The Cabinet Committee on Security of GoI recently cleared the Strategic Partnership (SP) model for defence acquisitions. This essentially allows for joint ventures between...
View ArticleTrump or no Trump, world is not ready to take a step back on climate change path
By: Nidhi Sharma So he hasn’t made up his mind. Not yet. US President Donald Trump has left the world guessing whether he would really back out of the commitments made by Barack Obama in...
View ArticleAlways take god’s name
By: Devakottai S Srinivasan In the fifth Skanda of the Bhagavat Purana, Hiranyakashipu asks his son Prahalad, “What is the best thing you have learnt?” Prahalad replies, “Sravanam Kirtanam vishnum...
View ArticleSix innovative ways to fund transport infrastructure
Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, Director, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory India’s transport sector — roads, ports, railways and airports — alone requires more than half of the Rs 43-50 lakh crore needed for...
View ArticleGrowing strategic engagement between Tokyo and Delhi
By Darshana M Baruah During his speech at the Africa Development Bank meeting on May 23, PM Modi highlighted an Asia-Africa growthcorridor in collaboration with Japan. This follows Delhi’s decision to...
View ArticleFoundations of a post-2019 team are going to be laid now by PM Modi
By: Ashok Malik In Year Four, what are Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s priorities? This is an unusual question because by this stage in a government’s life, most prime ministers would become cautious....
View ArticleIt’s time we stop asking our politicians for their views on women
By Rajyasree Sen First, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan’s buffaloes had run away from him — a portend of what was to come India’s way a few years later. And now his tongue seems...
View ArticleManaging oneself
By: EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH Research shows that if you set happiness as your goal and pursue it, value it the way our culture encourages us to do, you can actually end up feeling unhappy and...
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