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?
Archive for the 'Business' Category
Insurance for sex workers
Published by May 3rd, 2008 in Business, Human Rights, Society and Women. 0 CommentsLIC 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?
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Business, Education, Government and Human Rights. 0 CommentsYet, 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?
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Business, Caste, Education, Government, Human Rights, India, Infrastructure and Regulation. 0 CommentsIn 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
Published by April 7th, 2008 in Blogging, Business and Travel. 0 CommentseNidhi 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!
Published by April 4th, 2008 in Books, Business, Media and Photoblog. 0 CommentsJo 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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Published by March 26th, 2008 in Activism, Business, Community, Poverty, Society and Women. 0 CommentsM.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
Published by March 21st, 2008 in Business, Economy and Poverty. 0 CommentsNitin 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 [...]
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
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Business, Capitalism, Economy and Society. 0 CommentsBombay 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.
Published by March 14th, 2008 in Business, Development, Economy, Education and Society. 1 CommentAnandanubhava 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
Published by March 1st, 2008 in Business, Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Health, India, Policy, Politics and Regulation. 0 CommentsJagdish 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
Published by February 29th, 2008 in Art, Business, Cinema, Culture, Media, Music, Personal, Society, Spotlight Series and Theatre. 1 Comment[ 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
Published by February 28th, 2008 in Business, Capitalism, Development, Economy and Education. 0 CommentsAn 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 [...]
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?
Published by February 24th, 2008 in Business, Personal and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsMansi recommends a website that brings together entrepreneurs, business owners and investors.
Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?
Published by February 22nd, 2008 in Adivasi, Business, Caste, Community, Culture, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Environment, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Poverty and Spotlight Series. 7 Comments[ 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’
Published by February 17th, 2008 in Business, Feminism and Personal. 0 CommentsAishwarya 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.
Published by February 13th, 2008 in Business, Economy, Education and Personal. 0 CommentsPiyul 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
Published by February 11th, 2008 in Business, Caste, Culture, Dalit, Economy, Education, India, Policy, Prejudice, Religion and Society. 1 CommentArzan 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 [...]
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
Published by January 27th, 2008 in Business, Development, Economy and Environment. 0 CommentsMansi 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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