at the very Core of it all … is Content!
I spent my formative years in Calcutta, in solid middle class surroundings. The only cars in the street those days were Ambassadors with some Premier Padmini’s zipping by. Televisions were a luxury and entertainment meant Wednesday evening Chitrahaar. We had no cell phones those days, communication was written and cricket was a game that was …
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Stress. Stress is the single biggest threat facing the middle and the increasingly lower middle management segments. (Here, I am deliberately not delving into the stress related ailments of the top management as much has already been written about the matter.) Young men and women are today taking an incredible, and in cases unbearable, amount …
“Mai” is a Chinese word for smog. A word that is literally choking Beijing and other major cities in Eastern China, thanks to the overwhelming burning of coal for power generation. Visibility is severely hampered on the ground level as a shroud of toxic fumes seems to have engulfed the cities. Children are restricted indoors, …
Just when the Indian steel industry was beginning to pat itself on the back, having secured the steepest growth rate in the world, it has been slapped into mourning by a devastating piece of news. Queensland floods have forced Xstrara to declare force majeure. Considering the fact that Queensland produces about two thirds of the …
Every time I think I know the answers, life has this bad habit of changing the questions. True to form, just as I was beginning to relish the little understanding I had of social media and how to create killer content that engage the search engines and through them reach out to a target audience …
What is at once the lightest and the heaviest thing in the world? Stock prices. For, even imaginary rumors can lift them and when they fall, even Hercules cannot hold them. The bulls, eternal optimists, are on a perpetual struggle to push prices up, while the mauling bears throw their weight behind efforts to hammer …
They do not differentiate between the rich and the poor. Man made boundaries cannot restrict them. They cower not before the insolent might of guns or roses. They are the risks that face mankind at large – lurking in some unknown recess, perhaps even readying to shower their fire and brimstone on humanity even as …
So what did 2012, the year that went by, really give us? Global recession, falling incomes, all pervading corruption, war on terror, drone attacks, killing of innocents, candle marches, Arab spring … it all flashes across the mind’s eyes like a bioscope of yore. As I stand on the right side of another brand new …
The verdict is more or less out. Corporate India is ready to greet the New Year ahead with optimism. Not the guarded type that is politically correct, but genuine gut-felt pure optimism. And I say this after talking to a wide swath of opinion makers – economists, industrialists, traders, bureaucrats and politicians. While the level …