An Interfaith Approach
By A K Merchant The four kinds of emotional states in the way people relate themselves to material and nonmaterial realities, are: pseudoniceness, chaos, emptiness and spirituality. The first two...
View ArticleFor Digital India to really reap benefits, some key technology-related issues...
By Kala S Sridhar & V Sridhar Prime Minister Narendra Modi has argued for making the country digital, and paved the way for electronic payments and receipts through applications such as the...
View ArticleMatinee show management tips
By Harsh Goenka Cinema plays an important role in shaping our beliefs and our way of life. Images and emotions gleaned from films seen when young tend to remain with us for years. Like most...
View ArticleSharad Yadav eyes Mandal 2.0, but can he overcome Modi-Shah hurdle?
Sharad Yadav’s eyes are now set on moving towards Mandal 2.0 to bring together tribals, Dalits, OBCs and minorities, even though he did not mention anything about Muslims. But this is not going to be...
View ArticleBuilding Smartly
A smart city is not just about technology. This misinterpretation has often led cities to make investments that are doomed to fail.
View ArticleBurglar-proof your home
We want to protect our homes from intruders. But how many of us worry about the intruders that enter our real home, our body and mind?
View ArticleThoughts and Projections
By J Krishnamurti Thought plays so important a part in our life, thought that has created our culture, whether it is eastern or the western. All religious structures, beliefs, sects and dogmas are...
View ArticleScenario in Steels
By Toralf Hagenbruch Operational excellence is the one improvement lever steel producers control completely. So, it’s natural that these players are especially cost-sensitive and constantly on the...
View ArticleMr Murthy, Walk away before you further destroy your reputation and...
By Omkar Goswami Dear Mr Murthy, I have known and admired you for over two decades, been an independent director of Infosys for 15 years, and still serve as a board member of Infosys BPO....
View ArticlePrivacy as fundamental right: Minding our business
By Smriti Parsheera The Supreme Court’s upcoming verdict on whether we have a fundamental right to privacy will be one of the most momentous decisions of our times. It is, however, inopportune that...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s latest Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy: Not much South Asian...
By Pinaki Bhattacharya It was touted as the latest US strategy towards South Asia. And, we were told by US Secretary of Defence James Mattis, that the Camp David meeting last weekend was a culmination...
View ArticleConfess and start afresh
By Sumit Paul Years ago, I sent an article to the editor of a leading English daily in London. It was plagiarised. Though my submission was carried, I had a constant prick of conscience. I...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s realism and implications for India
President Trump was sharply critical of Pakistan’s tactic of taking assistance from the US to fight terrorism and providing a haven for terror groups such as the Taliban.
View ArticleTragedies happen
Tragedies make you question the mercy of the Creator. It shakes your faith. How can the Creator be the most merciful if such tragedies are allowed to take place?
View ArticleRailways and Finance
The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today.
View ArticleDon’t allow Pakistan to get away with false promises now
By G Parthasarathy Indians and Afghans went ballistic with joy and Pakistan fretted and fumed after President Trump spelt out his “path forward in Afghanistan and South Asia”. Trump minced no words...
View ArticleCharge that Narayana Murthy forced CEO Vishal Sikka to resign is a lie
By Vallabh Bhanshali Walk away I did, but it did not mean a walk over/ Targets hiding behind the non-target/ I prefer speaking to Keeping quiet / When will my countrymen learn to speak up...
View ArticleGood time to join the dots, cross the T’s
By Karan Singh We are on the cusp of a broad-based consolidation wave in Indian business. One has only to read the headlines to grasp the heightened level of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity...
View ArticleOutgrowing the mai-baap state
By Samraat Basu & Sanjana Srikumar A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court unanimously found that there is a fundamental right to privacy under the Indian Constitution. The decision came in context...
View ArticleGoI to prove it can keep your secrets
By Nishit Dhruva & Khushboo Shah The Supreme Court declaring privacy as a fundamental right is in consonance with the Right to Freedom. Privacy is a part of individual liberty and no person shall...
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