My rediscovery of India

Despite the rather lofty post title, don’t expect anything radical here, it’s just some random notes from my recent journey to India. I was there for five weeks. Its seems so long, doesn’t it? Well, it had been over two years since I set foot in the country that issued me my passport and I [...]

A step-by-step introduction to Indian Institute of Politics (IIP)

Isn’t it about time we established an Indian Institute of politics?
Any executive running a publicly traded business would have either formal training that equips him for the job or years of apprenticeship working at various levels in the company or long experience in the industry or in many cases, all the three above. But what [...]

India is different!

Do not reinvent the wheel. If someone somewhere has done it well before you, replicate it - that is the present day business mantra. Knowledge management and best practice sharing are accepted norms in businesses these days.And with our high technological and communications capabilities, it is as easily done as said.
But here is a different [...]

Indian banking & finance 2005

FT has an excellent coverage on India’s banking and finance sector.
Its great that India’s banking sector is not riddled with as many problems as that of China’s, but we still have a long way to go. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to be quite happy just to be ahead of our next door neighbours:

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What it means to be an Indian?

Nimbupani has an interesting post on “are they us“?, which is still having some active and lively discussions.
Very many years ago, I used to have a very simplistic exclusive view to what Indian means. “If you live in India, you are an Indian”. period.
One fine day, I had to fill in an [...]

The white tears of the rubber tree

The Kerala Tourism board is slowly opening up its beautiful rubber plantations to eco-tourists. The quiet, thick rubber plantations, the tappers who toil almost camouflaged among the trees and even the queer smell of the drying rubber sheets are part and parcel of Kerala’s evergreen beauty. If you are ever in God’s own country, do [...]

Sympathy going out of fashion in India?

Bloomberg reports on how sympathy is going out of style in India. A rather harsh statement, but given the context, one might agree that this is a move in the right direction.
India has had a legal system that was ‘kind’ to employees often at the expense of fairness. How else would one explain a decision [...]

Did he forget about India?

Here is an interesting speech by Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of IMF. The speech is insightful, giving a comprehensive look on the global economic outlook and outlining some key issues.
But I couldn’t help but notice this:“It is no longer news that the world economy performed very well in 2004, with possibly the highest [...]

India is “mostly unfree”

India is “mostly unfree” in the 2005 Economic Freedom Index, published by the The Wall Stree Journal and The Heritage Foundation. Categorised into four - Free, mostly free, mostly unfree and repressed, India ranks a rather sad 118 of the 161 featured countries.
Here their take on India’s economic freedom:“The results of the May 2004 [...]

Are you proud to be an Indian?

If you had to substantiate in a 10-minute argument that India is a great country, what would you say?
I was frantically trying to finish my presentation for tomorrow, when my Polish colleague decided he needs to know more about India, and that too, NOW. The usually peace loving person that I am, I found myself [...]