The Right Education
By SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV The focus of education should be not to suppress information but to kindle thirst for knowledge. Then you can’t stop the child from learning, he’s going to learn anyway. But...
View ArticleMarket Design
By ADAM TOOZE “I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation. You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer.” That was Tony Blair, Britain’s prime minister, in October 2005....
View ArticleMake 5G Lord of the Rings
By Rekha Jain In August 2018, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) released recommendations for the auction of, and the reserve prices for, the 700, 800, 900, 1800, 2100, 2300, 2500,...
View ArticleStabilising the Rocking CEO Chair
By Jeffrey Pfeffer & M Muneer Will Elon Musk remain Tesla CEO or will he have to go? This is the hot topic of discussion among most millennials and Twitterati. Founder removals, nevertheless, are...
View ArticleThe Silent Sun in All of Us
We must empower the ‘SilentSun’ in all of us, let the fire of our drive consume us, and avoid injustice to our souls by not striving to be who we truly are.
View ArticleHow Indian Are Our Ads? Clear Hai
By Monojit Lahiri When you talk about Indian cinema to apurist, the names and works of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and a host of class acts from...
View ArticleOn Global Debt Levels
By SUSAN LUND The epicentre of the global financial crisis was really the housing market. It started in the US, but it turned out that similar housing bubbles were building in other countries, like the...
View ArticleDetoxify with Kapalbhati
By Anil K Rajvanshi Kapalbhati is a part of Pranayam kriya where one forcefully exhales rapidly and in short bursts. Practitioners claim that it helps in cleansing lungs and in exercising abdomen...
View ArticleImmunise Against Policy
By Adar Poonawalla Why is India not taking its best shot? According to a recently published National Family Health Survey (NFHS) IV, as many as 72.5% of Indian children surveyed in the age group of 12...
View ArticleMerging weakness into bank strength
The government proposes to merge Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank to create the third-largest bank in the country after SBI and ICICI. One such merger might not be a bad idea, but...
View ArticleThe law of this land, Bishop Mulakkal
Franco Mulakkal, bishop of Jalandhar, stepped aside on Monday. He will travel to Kerala, to face police investigation. A group of nuns allege that he had repeatedly raped one of them from 2014 to 2016;...
View ArticleGrowing innovation nation
By N Venkatram In recent years, India has witnessed technological advancements that have disrupted traditional business models. The increasing use of smartphones, connected devices and sensors has...
View ArticleFuture foretold
By KAZUO ISHIGURO Miss Lucy was now moving her gaze over the lot of us. “I know you don’t mean any harm. But there’s just too much talk like this. I hear it all the time,...
View ArticleTriumph of human spirit
By- M P K KUTTY The recent calamity that struck Kerala has shown how important it is to have good neighbours or how important it is to have good relationship with people next door. Over...
View ArticleManaging Finance
By MERVYN KING On the one hand, there are those who argue that our economies are facing unusually strong but temporary ‘headwinds’ that will die down in due course, allowing central banks to raise...
View ArticleLog on to inner self
by Sant Rajinder Singh Technology such as the internet enables us to access a wealth of information from all fields of knowledge with a few keystrokes at our computer. But with all this compiled...
View ArticleThere is a Need to Build Critical Thinking on Bad Assets Problem
By: B Sambamurthy, Former Director and CEO, IDRBT In a recent speech at Kolkata, YV Reddy, former RBI Governor, referring to the public debate on non-performing assets (NPAs), lamented that we are...
View ArticleOffsetting defence offsets
By Thomas Mathew Defence offsets are in bad odour today, due essentially to ignorance. In reality, the policy can help liberate our military-industrial complex stuck in perpetual infancy. The policy on...
View ArticleOn supply chains
Morris Cohen The US is engaged in trade disputes with China, the EU, Mexico and Canada. We have been told that trade is a zero-sum game with one country’s gain coming at the expense of...
View ArticleNo Inner Boundaries
By Sakshi Harlalka How we deal with inner obstacles will determine our success and failure. The inner limitations of a person in terms of his thoughts is what decides his future. Accepting reality is...
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