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Lessons from the 2G verdict

After the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on the 2G spectrum sc­am comes the la­ndmark Singhvi-Ganguly judgment of the Supreme Court, cancelling all the 122 licences issued to telecommunications companies

The games they are a-changin’

Remember the dot-com bubble th­at started during the late 1990s? Sh­areholders and investors around the world lost billions of dollars. Eyeballs could not be monetised at the pace that

Character essential for excellence

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” was what Christian thinker named Bernard of Chartres said in 1159 (later also attributed to Isaac

Making climate change appealing

The famous “Keeling Curve” graph, which shows the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere from 1958 to 2006, had set off alarm bells in the scientific community

Melancholic intellectual confesses

I haven’t yet read El Intelectual Melancolico: Un Panfleto (The Melancholy Intellectual: A Pamphlet) by Jordi Gracia, professor of Spanish literature at the University of Barcelona — not for lack

Davos Man stumped for answers

The latest World Economic Forum concluded in Da­vos last weekend. For an event that doesn’t produce a communiqué let alone anything as grand as a treaty or even

GM India January sales down 17%

General Motors India today posted a 17. 46 per cent year-on-year decline in sales to 8 241 units in January 2012

Wasting talents of IIT graduates

Addressing students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay, during the recently held “Techfest”, Nobel laureate professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan expressed his disappointment with really smart students, including IITians, joining finance

Leadership is a people’s game

“Before you are a leader success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader success is all about growing others

Multiple attempts to kill Bapu failed

Today it is 64 years since Bapu was m­urdered. Those w­ho have read his biographies or have seen Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi will remember the scene well where

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