BT is to stop using Indian call centres. This could be just any other news item. But the news says more about India’s education system than closure one business unit. BT is closing its call centre because its customers h
Among things that we have learnt from the Greeks and their strategy in the Battle of Troy, is to win. You need to punch surprises under disguise. In similar way, special packages worth Rs 1.25 lakh crores as announced by Mr Modi, 35 percent reserv
Our parliament has performed poorly and irresponsibly in the recent monsoon session. It gives a bad signal to the future of our democracy. The way things were going on and the way sessions were adjourned on some pretext or the other proved t
It was a caution and solicited advice for all of us- the aspiring journalists. Two years down the line and I realise that social media has grave perils and can tarnish the credibility and reputation of not just journalists, public figures and inte
In a democracy political parties lose elections and some are won. And in a century of its existence the Congress party has many humiliating defeats and unbelievable victories. However, the party does not seem to have taken its defeat in elections
A plastic bag is impeding human evolution or say, making us irresponsible. How can a filthy but convenient product like a plastic bag affect human intelligence? Every city in India is fighting the plastic bag menace. Shopkeepers in
Aryabhatta gave a new dimension to Mathematics after discovering Zero. He made the way for abstract Math and its concepts. Centuries later, if someone has contributed enough to the likes of Aryabhatta (re-inventing the value of Zero), it was Kalam
Seventy years is a long time for the memories to fade. But when it is shaped by the most horrific incident of written history, time too fails to erase it from collective remembrance. August 6 marked the 70 years in the lowest point of World War II
Social media runs its own court, at least in this country. People woke up to the news of Yakub’s hanging on July 30. Memon soon became the new reality TV show. While TV channels were busy making a spectacle of the dead man&rsq
When newspapers carry a story of a heinous crime or a brutal sexual assault on a woman, the usual reaction is this: First, the person reads the article (usually due to a gripping headline). Second, expresses utter disgust or disbelief. Third, he o
It was cold and dry month of January. I was given an assignment to report a school event where former president APJ Abdul Kalam was to launch the east UP chapter of his “What Can I Give Mission” programme. I was bit anno
The story of India’s reversed economic fortunes since it instituted liberalization of its regulatory systems in 1991 is famous, and one that can be used to illustrate the extent to which a growth oriented policy approach can turn around the
This article has been written to address some issues that have existed long in our lives, but for some reason are always subverted by what goes on around us. It is in the context of a situation like this, where words dominate, eithe
Greece accounts for just two per cent of the GDP of the Euro zone. But the turmoil in that country has had effects on some of the major economies of the world. This necessitates an attempt to understand the causes and implications of the Gre
An American president once said that freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. But in the dark-suffocating manholes of indignity to which thousands of people are subjected to, in course of t
"Digital India" meet on July 1 turned out to an investment meet as the captains of the industry announced in 150 seconds allotted to each one of them how much investment they are going to make. It added to some Rs 26 lakh crore over next
In the land of saints and sages, where words of wisdom flow from generation to generation, where a way of worship triggers piles of interpretation, there is a class of aspiring India which is determined to make brand India stronger than ever. They
The first emotion of my parents, when they saw my ‘98% score in business studies’ in my 12th CBSE board exam result in 2012, was of overwhelming joy and pride. This lasted only for a moment, and faded as they anxiously scrolled down on
The absurdity is inherent in the arrest and the trial of Josef K, the protagonist of the Franz Kafka`s `The Trial` and is not something which is uncommon in the courtrooms of India. As a reporter for a national daily in Chandigarh, I came across s
