Managing strategy
By: Robert Sutton Savvy leaders know that just bombarding employees with a quick PowerPoint presentation, a few days of training, or an inspirational speech won’t cut it if they want to spread some...
View ArticleEase of Doing Litigation
By Krishnayan Sen & Ankit Jain With India’s excruciatingly long litigation and arbitration process, often plagued with enormous costs and endemic delays, parties are now increasingly turning to...
View ArticleMorning is the best time
By: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan People have always believed that morning time is the best time because one’s mind is most fresh at this time of the day. The Quran expresses this fact in the following...
View ArticleWith data localisation, frame policies to develop domestic computing facilities
By Pralok Gupta & Rupa Chanda Data localisation is once again the talk of the town. The ‘new’ draft ecommerce policy of GoI favours location of computing facilities within India, and requires...
View ArticleOn future shocks
By: Humayun Tai Et Al Historically, electricity rate structures have bundled all electric services into one volumetric rate — charging customers by kilowatt-hour of use served all major stakeholders’...
View ArticleThe Context of Your Life
By SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR Millions of years have passed and millions will come. What is your life: 60, 70 or 100 years? The span of life is insignificant. It is not even a drop in...
View ArticleThis Congress is Unholy
By Gilles Verniers The Congress offer to not contest seven seats to support the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)-Samajwadi Party (SP) alliance in Uttar Pradesh — an offer promptly rejected by Mayawati — is...
View ArticleMaya Could’ve Considered
By Neerja Chowdhury Mayawati’s rebuff to Congress’ overture, of leaving seven seats for the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) combine, was not surprising. Had BSP...
View ArticleHuman Progress
By STEVEN PINKER What is enlightenment? In a 1784 essay with that question as its title, Immanuel Kant answered that it consists of “humankind’s emergence from its self-incurred immaturity”, its “lazy...
View ArticleHoli Brings Much Cheer
By CHITRANJAN SAWANT Holi is a festival that welcomes the spring; it celebrates the life and energy of the new season. The weather is balmy and there is fragrance all around. The vibrant festival adds...
View ArticleLet L&T first come clear
By Anjana Menon Larsen & Toubro’s hostile attempt to take over Mindtree is a Goliath vs David battle. While Mindtree is raising an army on Twitter, fighting through emails and emotional appeals,...
View ArticleLet L&T first come clear
By Anjana Menon Larsen & Toubro’s hostile attempt to take over Mindtree is a Goliath vs David battle. While Mindtree is raising an army on Twitter, fighting through emails and emotional appeals,...
View ArticleSpirituality & Innocence
BY MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI Happiness in life does not depend only on the body, external comfort or external objects. True happiness in life depends on the mind. If we gain total control over the mind, we...
View ArticleMindtree’s not being chopped!
By: Arijit Barman Who is a gardener? Someone who works in a garden, tending to plants and nursing saplings. There is an inherent ring of care and compassion to the term. Co-founder and former chief...
View ArticleAn asterisk on vital statistics
By Puja Mehra Earlier this month, 108 economists and social scientists issued a reminder in the Economic & Political Weekly (goo.gl/oN15ET) of the need to insulate the collection and dissemination...
View ArticleAware and knowing
By Mata Amritanandamayi We acquire knowledge, but we lack awareness. Awareness arises when knowledge accompanies action. Mere acquisition of knowledge does not mean that such knowledge will translate...
View ArticleParadigm Change
By Yuval Noah Harari At the dawn of the third millennium, humanity wakes up, stretching its limbs and rubbing its eyes. Remnants of some awful nightmare are still drifting across its mind. ‘There was...
View ArticleDigital India: It’s Good to be Well-Connected
By Ravi Shankar Prasad The Digital India programme, launched in July 2015, has changed the narrative of India. Interventions like the BharatNet digital cable network have pushed digital connectivity to...
View ArticleSave Jet without pandering to individual interests and ego
By G R Gopinath On Friday, banks, led by State Bank of India (SBI), showed serious interest in favour of a ‘professional team’ taking charge at Jet Airways. The lenders will reportedly infuse more...
View ArticleTrue Nature Of Renunciation
By SWAMI RAMDAS Many have externally renounced the world and gone to the forests, but have not realised the Absolute. It is not necessary to renounce everything that is external. Because, it is not the...
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