- Start of the end for the India growth story? Rising salaries, slowing growth rate, plateuing demographic dividend
How long can a country keep growing, fueled by an aspirational demographic dividendSalaries are rising all the time, making IT-outsourcing firms and others make lesser profits. Prices of everything keep rising. People ar…
Topic: India, Economy | Read more
- How to change business education in India: Bhavya Sahni says make internships compulsory for MBA students
If there is at least one original thing the 'always-copying-the-Americans' Indian Business schools can do to churn out better prepared students, is to make interning with startups compulsory. Bhavya Sahni explains the be…
Topic: India, Education, Useless mba | Read more
- Can American style party primaries democratize our dynastic system?
Why is that people like Robert Vadra, Priyanka or whoever gets to speak with freedom on any issue related to their party when they have never held any political officePerhaps American-style party primaries can help check…
Topic: India, Politics | Read more
- How Microfinance may be the sub-prime loan menace for India
In U.S., there were the NINJA loans, high-interest loans made out to people with no jobs, no income, nothing. The Indian equivalent of NINJA loans may be the micro loans given by microfinance companies that have spread l…
Topic: Personal Finance, India | Read more
- Whatever the odds, the (real) incredible story behind DLF: How it fudged its books to the top in an unregulated Indian real estate market
That India needs a real estate regulator, along the lines of TRAI, is stressed once again by the case of real estate leader DLF, which has been found to fudging its books to boost its stock price and various other malpra…
Topic: Books and Literature, Scandal, India | Read more
- Why Indian students plagiarize: They have been taught to do so and they don't know how to write properly
Here are two reasons why Indian students plagiarize, as explained by an academic Prof. Rohini Muthuswami from the School of Life Sciences, JNU: 1. Many students don't know what is so special about plagiarism when they h…
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- How Bangalore's Techies might be becoming fundamentalists under RSS influence (and why it might be easy to indoctrinate techies)
Helped by a BJP government, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is making successful inroads into the Indian IT hub of Bangalore (which many charitably call cosmopolitan, and which is kind of Las Vegas-style consumer c…
Topic: Trend, India | Read more
- The Real Promise of the Youth of India (is Inside You)
Youth is a promise. Youth is a promise to our parents, our society and us. However, generations after generations of humanity have witnessed this promise turn to despair and hopelessness.
Our parents and grandparents…
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- Ratan Tata is like the Aamir Khan of Indian Business
Aamir Khan is a sincere man. Ratan Tata is a sincere man. Both are sincere businessmen. But shrewd businessmen. Both use the power of image to push their respective businesses. One uses his image power to push mediocre f…
Topic: Politics and Government, India | Read more
- Navin Jindal and Why Youth is so overrated in Politics
It wasn't enough that Shashi Tharoor had proven quite successfully why the entry of profesionals into politics is so over-rated. Now Navin Jindal has displayed the fallacy of hoping too much from the entry of youth in p…
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- Can anyone explain to me how sensible is the delimitation of constituencies?
Other than knowing nothing about who will vote for whom in these confusing, deliberately issue-less elections, the other thing that confuses most Indians, including this writer is this thing called 'Delimitation of const…
Topic: Indiaelections2009 | Read more
- The rising trend of Rajya Sabha as the real source of power in India
There is a valid reason why people point out that Manmohan Singh is not the people-elected leader of India. Since 1991, he is a Rajya Sabha M.P. from Assam. He has won no Lok Sabha elections in his career.
We had Rajy…
Topic: Politics and Government, Indiaelections2009, Trends | Read more
- Ten things I have learned from these Elections
So, we are giving the middle finger salute this time: The Election Commission is painting voters' middle fingers with indelible ink instead of the usual index finger. Whether this is a nod towards the quality of our po…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, India | Read more
- The Art of Building Influence in India - Part 1 - The Reliance and Infosys Way
It is very easy creating influence in India. In this occassional series, part 1 will focus on businessmen and influence. As is usual with most of my posts, I will be quick with this.
1. The Reliance way: Where you li…
Topic: Media, Politics, Indiaelections2009 | Read more
- How to start a political party in India
The Congress party was formed more than 125 years ago. When the indpendence was won, Gandhiji wanted Congress to be disbanded but they did not listen. It took another 40 years or so before a party was able to rival to ri…
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Politicalparty, Howto, Simpleguide | Read more
- Poem of an election campaign worker
This Charlie Brown (peanuts) peom is about the U.S. Elections. With some modifications, it can be made for the Indian elections. After we are good at appropriating American stuff. I would recommend adding in bits about g…
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- Graphic: No opinion poll is sure about who will win what in these elections
Who will win in the electionsOnly the Matpati Ka Jinn knows. The graphic from Churimuri blog tries to aggregate results from 16 surveys in by different newspapers and news channels and finds that you can rely on no opi…
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- Let a million independent candidates stand in the elections
A Pav Bhaji seller in Gurgaon is running for the Lok Sabha Elections. A candidate ran many times against Indira Gandhi and other big political candidates. Remember a man they called Dharati Pakad? Two big name candidate…
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- How useless are opinion polls of TV news channels?
It is no secret most TV news channels in India have a political bias. Analyzing election-related opinion polls taken by two major TV news channels, Vinod Sharma says,
As is evident from the analysis above, both the …
Topic: Indiaelections2009, Survey, Indiablogger | Read more
- How Indians (should) Save and Invest
The declining (some say correctng) Indian stock markets have caused Indians to trun back to the safety of good old bank deposits and fixed deposits.
Estimating our total household savings at Rs9.85trn (US$192bn) in 2006…
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