Water, Water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge had foreseen the future long back in the 18th century. About 70 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water, however, only 1...
News reports would like us to believe that peacekeeping forces are preparing to leave Afghanistan in 2014. If that is so the dynamics of South Asia are set to change, and at a rapid pace. For...
Health is a matter of socio-economic concern. India is a developing nation, which started off health programmes at the national level, but failed to eradicate mass health issues and reduce maternal and infant moartality rates....
It was one of the most awaited budgets in recent times, expectations were on both extremes – that the Finance Minister will present a typical pre-election year populist budget while another set of people expected...
SME key statistics are old news. Over 13 million SME’s producing over 8,000 products, comprising ~41 million people, ~40% industrial output, ~40% of all export, 8 to 9% of GDP –known old news (source: Assocham...
In 2012, Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Laureate, one of the world’s foremost thinkers in contemporary economics, author of the 2012 best-seller titled “The Price of Inequality” was quoted in the New York Times as...
No Zola,I, to tilt at the latter day anti-Dreyfusards to contain the likes of fin de siècle Semitism,in current day cyber space. Our major ague of these times is religion in politics.So consider what some...
Apple fans gleam with joy as the Apple iTunes store launched in 55 countries last month. What was earlier a harsh reality of paying hefty sums of money for downloading content, thanks to skyrocketing exchange...
If I were to distill the key enablers which retailers in the West have built their businesses upon, the following stand out: Vast open spaces to set up huge, stand-alone hypermarkets with millions of SKUs....
Children begging in the middle of a street or selling articles on the roadside is a common sight in any city of India. In layman’s term can we address these children as child laborers? Not...
Recently, the entire political establishment was bitterly divided on the issue of allowing greater than 50% FDI in retail. Almost 2 parliament sessions were wasted and a lot of public posturing was undertaken by leaders...
As someone with half a century of public service,35 years in the saddle and 15 trotting near the horse,my guess is that in our great and glorious Republic,some cynicism intended, there are nearly 3,000 rapes...