 What India and China Should Do China has again ruffled New Delhi's feathers by denying visa to an Indian general. It has brought the smoldering hostilities of the two Asian giants to the front once more. Together these two countries could set the direction...   Professor Clay Christensen of Harvard Business School (HBS) provided three questions for his graduating students to ponder uopon : How can you be sure that you'll be happy in your career? How can you be sure...  There are leaders who 'feed on the applause' and there are public who are hungry for the heroics of the leaders and are dying to applaud. This is the normal case. Everybody expected Barack Obama to perform super heroic...  The way the US democracy works The Senate and the House of Representatives constitute the US Congress, the parliament of the most powerful democracy of the world. Compared to the pandemonium we witness in our own parliament (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha)...  'There is no future in rural poverty; developing countries that bet on their villages are missing the fact that the road to wealth comes from connection with the developed world and cities are the places that make...
Housewife? Poor you!
If you ask a married woman what she does, the answer most probably would be 'I am a housewife'. This is is not an India specific answer. All over the world majority of married women opt for this status, because of...
Factories wooing workers
Till just a few months ago the factory owners in the Export Processing Zones (EPZ) of China were having the times of their lives. No labour laws, no trade unions and migrant labourers willing to work 15 hour shifts for...  BP oil spill: Disasters and nationalism BP, the transnational oil major has to create an escrow account for $20 billion to oversee the clean up operation in the Gulf of Mexio. Sure BP is responsible, to a large extent, for the huge oil spill. But BP is not...
The next great war in the cyber domain?
When the Soviet Union was around, the arms race between US and USSR was a constant source of worry to the entire world and many people were scared about the possibility of a third world war between the two super powers. ...
News for the tribals
The newspapers neglect them because literacy rates among them are abysmal and private TV channels don't reach them as there are no cable operators among them– so for all their news they have to rely on Doordarshan and...
China's reactor sale to Pakistan
The sale of two nuclear reactors to Pakistan by China has raised some clamour in India and abroad. It created a flutter internationally because China belongs to a nuclear cartel, the NSG, which has guidelines on sale...
Word from Africa, at last
The first human beings were born in Africa. They migrated to the rest of the world afterwards. But by a curious twist of fate, while the rest of the world became enlightened cradles of civilisation and urbanisation, Africa...  Bihar, the state known for the number of dowry deaths (the worst in India), is also becoming known for a creative method villagers have developed for eliminating dowry deaths. Each villager plants a few fruit trees the day...  Bhopal tragedy: Law and justice Bhopal gas tragedy killed about 20,000 people, maimed and made ill half a million and earned us a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Finally, after quarter of a century of investigations and legal wrangles...
India overtakes China in road fatalities
We are beating the rest of the world on many accounts…like our population and industrial growth and whatnot. But the latest feather we are putting on our crown is not something about which we should be proud of -... ( Page 1 of 13 )  |
