Lessons from the 2G verdict
Praful Bidwai, Feb 08 2012After 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’
Roopen Roy, Feb 07 2012Remember 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
Arun Kumar Jain, Feb 06 2012If 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
Varun Dutt, Feb 05 2012The 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
Javier Marias, Feb 02 2012I 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
Simon J Evenett, Feb 01 2012The 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%
, Feb 01 2012, New DelhiGeneral 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
Arun Nigavekar, Jan 31 2012Addressing 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
Richard Rekhy, Jan 30 2012“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
Tushar Gandhi, Jan 29 2012Today 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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