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Why branding matters in IPL

Siva Rajendran has a question for you:
Some one born in Hyderabad, working in Delhi with Vijay Mallya’s KingFisher airlines, idolizes Sachin Tendulkar, ardent fan of Shahrukh Khan’s movies, has reasons to support Deccan Chargers, Delhi Dare Devils, Royal Challengers, Mumbai Indians and Kolkatta Knight Riders. Which IPL team will he support?

Insurance for sex workers

LIC introduces an insurance scheme for sex workers- ‘let’s revel in the news’, says Premasri :
To reiterate, this represents a tremendous victory for sex workers, as it symbolizes an eventual shift towards a rights-based framework, which recognizes sex workers as workers with the fundamental right to basic services such as savings accounts and life [...]

What, after all, is the evidence in favor of public schools?

Yet, the evidence is very much there. After all, China far outperforms India on educational indicators such as enrolment and efficiency, despite having a largely public primary system. Clearly, you don’t need a private system to achieve high quality and provide universal access to education.
Closer to home, Abi at Nanopolitan shows how publicly funded Kendriya [...]

Where are the good public schools?

In response to Gurucharan Das’ oft-repeated, sweeping characterization of public schools in the country as ‘a mess’, Abi points to the Kendriya Vidyalayas as one example of government-run schools that do better than private schools:
One of the things that infuriate me about Gurcharan Das and his ilk is the fact that they dismiss oh-so-casually all [...]

Club Mahindra Holidays IPO

eNidhi does an analysis of Club Mahindra Holidays IPO. When he writes about Club Mahindra, everyone else listens. The company responded to his questions.

Like a Picture? Steal it!

Jo takes a beautiful picture and finds it on the cover of a book. Only the credit is given to someone else … Of course he is livid. And plans to take action.
I don’t know why Prantha Books is not responding but I want them to know that I am not going [...]

Hang in there

Now it’s the turn of the publishing industry: how should freelance writers cope with an economic slowdown? Mridu Khullar offers some advice:
With economic problems gaining momentum worldwide, there’s a general air of gloom on most writing groups these days. It’s not as much a “we’re down and out”, as it is “hold tight, we’re going [...]

IT’s time to reflect

How will the slowdown in the U.S., affect India’s IT industry? Abhishek says it needs to ‘pause, reflect and realign strategies’:
Technically, it might not qualify as a recession, but according to Warren Buffet, “by common sense definition”, the U.S. economy already is in a recession.
A December, 2007 report on the Indian tech sector by Morgan [...]

Elaben

M.S.Sriram, in a long post, says it is an honour to know Ela Bhatt:
It has never been difficult to get through to Elaben. I do not know who her secretary is and when wanted her appointment, she herself would immediately respond on phone as to whether she was available at a particular day and [...]

Doing business in Rural India

Nitin Srivastava is doing a series of very informative posts on rural marketing titled ‘Perspectives on Retailing in India and Rural Marketing’. In the second post, he looks at some Emerging Trends from Rural India:
Employment: Non-farm activities in rural areas are witnessing a rise in entrepreneurship and employment, which are growing at a faster rate [...]

Where is the research?

Amol Agarwal asks elite Indian business schools and universities to showcase their research efforts too:
I still don’t understand this placement mania in the media. One can understand a weekly column to cover the issue but we see a regular full page dedicated to the events. It is sad that the only way these elite [...]

Greed is..greed

Bombay Addict draws some lessons from the latest stock market crash:
1. Believe no one. At times even yourself. If they tell you that stocks return more than bonds over the long term, ask them what they mean by long term. If they say 10 years, ask them if they’ve heard about a country called Japan. [...]

Why outsourcing is bad for India.

Anandanubhava on why he thinks that outsourcing is doing India more harm than good.
…this is a deadly, dangerous trend developing in India. Take for instance the incentives that Government gives to attract talent for its defense, military, space and other internal work. For a hugely qualified individual, this amounts to a fraction of what a [...]

Budget 2008

Jagdish Madan in a pre-budget summing up of the economic and political situation in the country, looks at some crucial issues:
…rural employment plan, which guarantees 100 days of work for one person in every poor household, was the priority of the government. The plan was the government’s attempt to address some of the countryside’s biggest [...]

Reality Shows

[ This is Essay # 21 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Reality Shows
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Pradip Somasundaran
People have started referring to me as the first reality show winner since the success of reality shows here in Kerala. Well in a way that’s true as there was more reality to the program that I won [...]

A Buffettology session

An exception worth making. This link has nothing to do with India and the blogger isn’t Indian either. But Warren Buffett has many admirers in India, from soon-to-be investors to market veterans. With the Sensex and Nifty now almost household names, it’s always good to get gyaan from the Oracle of Omaha.
Blogger Dang Le provides [...]

Economy: a bumpy road ahead?

Kamla Bhatt says Indians seem to be blissfully unaware of the recession in the U.S., and the possible impact on India:
Of course, we know about the ones that we read in the media, but what about the layoffs that go unreported? For over a year now I have been tracking the housing market in [...]

Thinking of a startup?

Mansi recommends a website that brings together entrepreneurs, business owners and investors.

The Freelancer’s Bible (Abridged)

The Chasing Iamb has some advice for freelancers. If you are one, or intend to be one, print this out and read it every morning before you start work:
 1. Don’t work for free. Ever. Not even the first time.
2. Do not listen to Falana publishers in Delhi, when they tell you that they love your [...]

Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?

[ This is Essay # 18 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]

Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?
Theory and Practice in a Liberal Democracy
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Rahul Banerjee
Over the past two years or so the normally un-newsworthy rural poor in India have time and again made the headlines with their vehement opposition to the forced acquisition [...]

‘So take that, beauty industry’

Aishwarya wants grey hair, so that she can dye it a bright purple (’so take that, beauty industry’):
According to my blog stats, someone, somewhere has made their way here by searching for “Aishwarya has grey hair?”. I was startled when I found this out this morning because Aishwarya does indeed have grey hair. At least, [...]

Bade bade baatein. Oonche oonche nazar.

Piyul attends  an e-summit on entrepreneurship organized by the IITB e-cell ‘where the Venture Capital muscle was out on display. To facilitate and ‘incubate’ the next-gen of the top end of young entrepreneurs. Names such as Canaan, Sherpalo, Helion, Seedfund, GlobalLogic, DFJ and many more’:
And that precisely is what I am feeling odd about. [...]

Abuse of corporate email and abusive email

Arzan notices a ‘disturbing trend’ emerging in India: he’s convinced forwarded chain emails constitute abuse of corporate mail. He also thinks the MNCs which allow employees to abuse corporate email in this fashion can be sued for hurting the feelings of some sections:
The email contents are generally
A list of 12 reasons why men are better [...]

Rs 9/min

Christopher is frustrated with Indian telemarketers:
The text message:
Again these come exclusively from Vodafone and despite my calls to the customer service reps telling them to stop sending me these ads, they still continue to come at a rate of around 5 per day. Usually they are in Hindi, selling everything from music to cricket to [...]

More on the little car

Mansi Desai thinks the Nano represents a ‘revolution’:
But a look at the side effects of this revolution is in order here. As everyone knows, India is densely-populated, and the current road conditions, narrow lanes, and lack of traffic control, and the dearth of parking structures may be on a rise if the streets get flooded [...]




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