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India’s worst concerns and the best of achievements relate to education. Present education system that has great institutions such as IITs and IISc has produced some unique results. When we look at the primary schools, particularly the governments ones in … Continue reading →

Anand requests me write about myself on the occasion of my 67 th birth date. And while I look back down the memory lanes, I get immense happiness. I have sweet memories, particularly the unimaginable love and affection that I … Continue reading →

553 m metric tonne of oil equivalent was India’s energy consumption in 2003(1,410 m metric tonne for China). 100 m mobile phone users in India in 2006 (194.5 m in the US in 2005) Rs 1,81,000 cr is what India … Continue reading →

Business Week has published a full feature today ‘An Awakening In Bihar’– How one rural school helps prepare poor youths for the Indian Institutes of Technology. I feel so happy after going through it. I have written about these missionaries … Continue reading →

On August 15, 2006 it will be the 59 th anniversary of India’s Independence. Though 59 years are nothing big for a country as big as ours, let us look at India through some statistics: India has the world’s largest … Continue reading →

Business Week has published a full feature today ‘An Awakening In Bihar’– How one rural school helps prepare poor youths for the Indian Institutes of Technology. I feel so happy after going through it. I have written about these missionaries … Continue reading →

PK Balachandran has written in ‘Hindustan Times’ from Colombo on August 11, 2006 , an interesting piece of feature based on a speech of Dr. Karan Singh, Chairman of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Dr. Singh, while delivering … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, there was a route to success that corporate America agreed on. But in today’s fast-changing landscape, that old formula is getting tired and retired. However, I consider it as the dynamics of management rules. Before visiting … Continue reading →

Last week sometime, Sunita Narain of CSE again came out with its report about the increased content of pesticides and other health wise unsafe elements in Pepsi and Coke. In a debate on NDTV, she presented her strongly worded views. … Continue reading →

I was waiting in my car for Yamuna to complete her Puja of Lord Shiva on this auspicious Monday of Sravana. I had brought the latest copy of ‘India Today’ to pass my time. But I never had to that, … Continue reading →