Executing Projects
By Sergey Asvadurove et al Today, the very largest and most complex projects command budgets exceeding $5 billion and require more than five years for design, planning and construction. The sheer scale...
View ArticleMobile charging caveats
By V Sridhar Much is being talked about the controversial interconnect usage charge (IUC) regulation released this week by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), slashing Mobile Termination...
View ArticleWhy creation is real
By Yoga Vasistha Prince Rama: O sage, even as the cities that we see during our dream are unreal, the world is the dream of Brahma, the creator; is it not, in fact, unreal and...
View ArticleManufacture Digitally
By Jon Sobel Manufacturers are looking very systematically at everything they do, from the methods they use to make things to technologies like 3D printing and additive printing, all the way to their...
View ArticleLet them choose their partners
By Amit Cowshish India’s quest for single-engine fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF) has taken a somewhat strange turn with both the main contenders signing agreements with local companies...
View ArticleSmith needs to deliver, both as batsman and captain
By Boria Majumdar In February this year, experts across the world said Australia would be a walk in the park for Virat Kohli and his men. India at home looked invincible and an Australian team...
View ArticleWhat if mass extinction happens: Will the human survive the catastrophe?
By Debkumar Mitra The year has been identified: 2100. Only the date is yet to be announced. The sixth mass extinction may obliterate life like it had happened five times on Earth in the past....
View ArticleThe digitally savvy
By Tushar Bhatia Etal The ability of technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) companies to create value is extraordinary. TMT companies generate more economic profit (net operating profit less...
View ArticleGoddess of wealth
By Suresh Padmanabhan Mahalakshmi or Sridevi is the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Ancients who depicted energy in appealing forms, created images of gods and goddesses to portray its various...
View ArticleHere’s how India’s widening income distribution can be redressed
By Parthasarathi Shome India’s growing inequality since liberalisation — indeed earlier — has been of increasing concern to every fair-minded social scientist. Lucas Chancel and, author of Capital, a...
View ArticleWhat our sportsmen can learn from Trump-NFL row
By Dileep Premachandran Six years after athlete Peter Norman died, the Australian Parliament — which tends to take its time when it comes to atoning for historical wrongs — apologised to him and his...
View ArticleGerman elections: Angela Merkel not really uber alles
By Abhijit Iyer-Mitra Many people are celebrating what will be Angela Merkel’s fourth term as chancellor of Germany, putting her on her path to being the third longest-serving chancellor after Otto von...
View ArticleEnrich your inner life
By Ezekiel Isaac Malekar In Hebrew, the word for life is ‘Chayim’, because each of us live two separate lives. We lead an outer and an inner life. It is not enough to have an...
View ArticleMake hay when the Sun shines
By Purnima M. Gupta The Sun is shining brightly on the Indian Solar Energy Markets. It is now for the developers to tap this Market. The developers have a keen eye for potential profits and...
View ArticleFor Manish Pandey, it is now or never to nail down an ODI spot
By Anand Vasu Nainital is known for producing a wide variety of larger than life figures, from Sam Manekshaw, India’s first field marshall, to Jim Corbett, hunter of man-eaters and conservationist and...
View ArticleThe sound of one hand
By AMA SAMY The master of Kennin temple was Mokurai, Silent Thunder. He had a little protege named Toyo who was only 12 years old. Toyo saw the older disciples visit the master’s room each...
View ArticleManaging strategy
By VENKAT ATLURI ET AL We’ve all experienced businesses that once seemed disconnected fitting together seamlessly and unleashing surprising synergies: look no farther than your smartphone, your music...
View ArticlePPPlease use them wisely
By Varun Hallikeri The Union Cabinet recently adopted a new Metro Rail Policy, which mandates that all future urban metro rail projects be delivered using the public-private partnership (PPP) approach...
View ArticleNation-buildings, circa 2017
By Deepak Parekh 2017 has been a watershed year for housing. The last Union Budget will go down as the ‘Affordable Housing Budget’. For the first time, all constituents in the housing chain —...
View ArticleDevi as the Asura slayer
Mahishasura was wily and cunning. After an extremely difficult penance, he had received many boons. One of them was that no god or human could ever destroy him.
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