During my confirmation hearing to become the US ambassador to India, I said that the real test of the US–India partnership will be how we work together on global challenges of our era. Timothy Roemer writes.
Air India (AI) is in an ICU and there are strident voices demanding its demise. Governments and most people have short memories. AI in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the finest airlines in the world and mentored Singapore Airlines. PC Sen writes.
This is the season of CEO transitions. India Inc. will witness a lot of traffic movement in the corner offices. Some will be filled by talent from within the organisation, and some from the ‘outside universe’. Venkat Iyer writes.
It must have seemed a brilliant idea at the time. Round up the superstars, put them in a bit of cinema and score a viral coup against their age-old rival, Adidas.
There is no overall strategic plan involving the worst affected states. Every state is implementing the anti-Maoist campaign as per its own appreciation of the ground situation. It is a compartmentalised approach — not an integrated one, writes Prakash Singh.
Let’s say you and the people in your department in office contribute Rs. 20 each to buy samosas and jalebis. You give the money to someone among you to get the snacks.
It’s true that all millionaires are not scamps and all scoundrels aren’t rich. But that doesn’t mean that the twain can’t meet.
There was panic on the decks before Pakistani foreign secretary Salman Bashir came calling on Indian external affairs minister SM Krishna in Thimphu last week.
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent murder of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) activist Niyamat Ansari in Kope gram panchayat, Jharkhand, and a similar attempt — on the same day, March 2 — on the life of his associate Bhukhan Singh.
Meditation is focusing on a scene, an incident, a fact or fiction or anything. It brings the object closer to the light of mind and makes the mind see the nature of the object distinctly. When the mind is able to see things, thoughts originate from it.
Ego is simply being unnatural, pretension, showing something that you are not. It always needs someone else to appreciate and recognise you.
It can strike anyone, anytime, anywhere. Each one of us has been a victim of depression and rejection at some point or the other. The cycle of actions and reactions of each individual depends upon his/her own vision of life.
It was a tense evening for me since Sri Lanka had crossed my predicted score of 225, thereby making me doubtful if India could chase down that huge score.
If Rouvanjit’s tragic demise is going to be a wake-up call, let’s not waste time in shrill accusations and demonisation. Instead, let us, as a society, seriously introspect about how we can make a good education system the best, writes
Dev Lahiri.
For many women, empowerment is not about a seat in Parliament. It’s about the ability to survive in a harsh milieu, says Lalita Panicker