India’s Best B-Schools

Spare a thought for Indian business schools’ Class of 2013. These young women and men will be heading out into a world where financial well-being…

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New Business Families

“If a thousand suns were to rise in the heavens at the same time, the blaze of their light would resemble a little the supreme…

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Brats at Work

H for Hitler. A for arrogant, R for rascal, I for idiot …” I’m sure many of us remember the “Hari Sadu” commercial about the…

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Gender Gag

Sexual harassment can be crude and overt or very subtle, but you know you are being sexually harassed when you experience it. Those around you…

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BUREAUCRACY-THE POWER THAT BE

All private secretaries to Union ministers are equal, but S.R. Bhatia is more equal. Bhatia is the private secretary to Prakash Chand Sethi, the Union…

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MYSTERIOUS U-TURN

Although it is a blasphemous thought, it has cropped up in many a legal mind during the last few weeks: if bets were placed on…

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Scrabbling Away From the Abyss

Nitish Kumar’s victory in last month’s Bihar election celebrates the triumph of economics over feudalism, but the climb out of poverty will be steep and…

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ON COARSE

If you believe in the theory of evolution, as I do then you will agree that one of the very few things that separates us…

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DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARNESS

The Washington post adopted this four-word slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” in February 2017, its first in 140 years. It was used by its owner…

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Jaat Kahan Ho

It is Useful to remind ourselves about how infinitesimal we are in the cosmic order. As we methodically destroy our planet, it is unlikely we…

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