Bank data theft: Investment, cyber audit, stricter punishment are way forward
By Subimal Bhattacharjee Early this week, the news that debit cards of about 3.2 million users of a few prominent banks in India have been compromised created a sense of panic across the country....
View ArticleScience induces rational thinking and the spirit of inquiry
By G S Tripathi Of all human values, truth and honesty contribute most in bringing about a certain order in life. These are also traits that make science — through experimentation and deductive logic....
View ArticleThe Supreme Court is hitting the BCCI where it hurts – the money bags
By Boria Majumdar Ask a fan in any part of the world to say one thing they know about the BCCI and most will say it’s the world’s richest cricket body. And the Supreme Court has...
View ArticleMoscow Nights
By Nigel Cliff This book tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of...
View ArticleAs the SP goes into a tailspin, the poll prospects for parties in 2017 are...
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Mahabharat in Yaduvansh’ has been the recurring theme for headline writers in recent weeks. It’s quite perfect because within the Samajwadi Party (SP) it has been a Yadav...
View ArticleMan vs robot: A technology-driven dystopia
By Debkumar Mitra In Lucas Varela’s wordless, graphic narrative, The Longest Day of the Future, two warring corporate giants wreak havoc in a futuristic megatechnopolis trying to gain control. Though...
View ArticleWhat gives software as a service such potential to scale globally?
By Alok Bardiya Sectors that hold the potential for emerging market disruption to impact other markets are healthcare and software — software as a service (SaaS) and mobile-based plays. Some of the...
View ArticleReligious tolerance
By Indoo Pandey Khanduri With the reassertion of religious identity in a multicultural global era, religious tolerance is required to accommodate and accept entirely different religious beliefs....
View ArticleThe Kabaddi World Cup was revived with a definite plan in mind
By JS Gehlot The International Kabaddi Federation had tried to create a global sporting ecosystem through three official ‘World Cups’ — for men in 2004 and 2007 and for women in 2012. Admittedly these...
View ArticleManaging crises
By Sinziana Dorobantu In this paper, we’re comparing firms that have good relationships with their stakeholders with firms that don’t. We’re doing this at the individual stakeholder level, so we’re...
View ArticleBe a verb, not a noun
By Osho The atheist says there’s no god, but when I say there’s no god, and atheists like Charvaka, Karl Marx, Lenin and Epicurus say there’s no god, there is abig difference between my statement...
View ArticleCyrus Mistry’s misterious ouster: Tatas may sync with global trends
The terse, bland press statement from Bombay House about Cyrus Mistry’s departure left me bewildered. This was worse than any scene from corporate fiction in which the CEO is given the pink slip at the...
View ArticleChinese chequers
By Minxin Pei Chinese political elites engaged in collusion with private businessmen would have no difficulty understanding Willie Hutton, who reportedly said that he robbed banks because that was...
View ArticleA strike on terror
By Kamal Jain Recently, India had to conduct surgical strikes on terrorists’ launching pads in POK in response to their attacks on army camps at Pathankot and Uri. Such restrained and confined military...
View ArticleA look at what FIFA inspectors check before ratifying a football venue
By Joy Bhattacharjya On the 25th of October, FIFA concluded it’s fourth inspection tour for the FIFA U-17 World Cup with the ratification of Kolkata as a venue for the tournament. With this...
View ArticleIndia is finally investing in sports infrastructure
By Boria Majumdar With each Olympics and India’s miserable performance in them, one hears enough talk about the lack of a sporting culture and the absence of world-class infrastructure as the main...
View ArticleTime ripe to bring in risk-based pricing of loans
By Harshala Chandorkar Rewarding the good has been an age-old practice. If you have been paying back your credit card dues and loans on time, you are a good customer. And if the aforementioned adage...
View ArticleTata group needs a wartime commander to lead the beast
By: Anjana Menon Cyrus Mistry has hurry attached to him. He walked into the top job in a rush that surprised everyone and his departure was even more desperate. He’s responded to his ouster dashing...
View ArticlePlus factor that heals
Janina Gomes Cortland Myers says that steel is iron plus fire, soil is rock plus heat, linen is flax plus the bath that cleans, the comb that separates, the flail that pounds and the shuttle...
View ArticleCarlos Alberto Torres, one of the greatest ever to have played for Brazil
By: Boria Majumdar He was certainly one of the legends of the game and one of the greatest ever to have played for Brazil. In fact, if you are a football fan you are sure...
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