The price of leadership
By S Leelavathi Leadership is a powerful construct. A leader is envied for the position and authority he enjoys. He receives adulation and is celebrated as a champion and deliverer. Little wonder,...
View ArticleOur Political Enterprise
By Milan Vaishnav In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that anybody who stands for elected office in India must, at the time of submitting their nomination papers, also submit a judicial affidavit, in...
View ArticleLooking back at the previous three India-Pak encounters in ICC tournaments
By Boria Majumdar Three years, three ICC tournaments and three intense clashes. Adelaide (2015), Kolkata (2016) and Birmingham (2017) and each time India emerged victorious. Do Pakistan have a...
View ArticleThe Modi-Trump meet comes during a flux when India’s policy response is based...
By Sanjaya Baru In his first six months in office, US President Donald Trump has so far met mainly heads of government of US allies or adversaries. He has admonished allies and talked tough with...
View ArticleFarmers’ distress: Just ease their doing business
By Nidhi Nath Srinivas Farming, India’s largest private sector, lacks the freedom successful businesses enjoy: surviving the bad years on the back of earnings in the good years. Through frequent trade...
View ArticleNeutron to nylon: Meat’n’potatoes of research
By Debkumar Mitra Twice in the last fortnight, what we eat has been in the news: French fries for all, and meat for pregnant Indian women. Fries first. The verdict is out: keep French fries...
View ArticleLeadership has acquired negative connotations, particularly in politics
By Chirdeep S Bagga Leadership is often associated with power. Today, the term has acquired negative connotations, particularly in politics. One has come to question the relative importance of being...
View ArticleTime for India to wake up to the new world order
If the current re-hyphenation of India and Pakistan being conducted is worth watching, it is because the power doing the re-hyphenating is no longer the US, but China.
View ArticleHere’s how GST complicates the employee-employer relation
Very often, we believe the employer-employee relationship to be beyond the purview of indirect tax. The company, we figure, is only a juridical person and operates through the acts of its employees.
View ArticleEnlighten everyone
Does an enlightened individual need to remain caged in the body? Why not get liberated from the physical? For seven days, the Buddha grappled with this dilemma. In the end, he decided that there was...
View ArticleFakhar Zaman – the pride of Pakistan
Fakhar, whose name literally means pride, went from being the pride of Katlang, a town in Mardan district, to being the pride of Pakistan.
View ArticleYoga can set you free
Yoga leads us to acceptance of individuals and circumstances. In yoga sadhana, the healing process is threefold: physical, mental and psychic.
View ArticleThe story behind the emblem, look and mascot of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup 2017
Every FIFA tournament has four major assets — the actual trophy, the tournament emblem, the look and the mascot. The only fixed symbol here is the actual trophy.
View ArticleHigher fiscal deficits of states not that bad. Here’s why
The rise in expenditure seems to have been channelled in the right direction. In the last few fiscals, the share of development expenditure in the total expenditure of states — barring a few — has...
View ArticleWhy TV channels are wrong in hounding Team India after defeat against...
Chasing a player down a London street and thrusting a camera in his face while asking leading questions isn’t journalism. It’s trolling.
View ArticleListening in on office cons
Modern Indian office language is an invented glorious world. When one enters it, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one could come out either alive or totally submerged in chocolate.
View ArticleSpiritual Atheism
Depending on one’s worldly calling, or svadharma, going to war is on the same footing as going to a temple or pursuing politics. The key then is not what you do but with what intent or motivation you...
View ArticleThe spiritual type you’re
The life of a professional is not necessarily antithetical to spiritual pursuits. An academic can be a spiritualist, if he realises the limitations of the intellectual realm.
View ArticleAutomation a necessity and may be a blessing in disguise
A strong focus on skill development will help India’s IT Industrial Revolution 2.0 boat out of any low-end ‘conveyor belt production line’ sea.
View ArticleManaging Oneself
The benefits of selfawareness don’t extend just to work. It helps us make smarter decisions. It helps us form better relationships. It helps us be more successful in our careers. People who are...
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