For India to achieve a place among the planet’s elite and powerhouse economies, it needs a few world-class, global banks to transact deals, pool money and create liquidity
The Anonymous Alien I had promised another story this week on the talent that lies hidden in all of us…that often only emerges with a little nurturing. But that has to wait until next week, because events of the last few days in India are so extraordinary that they demand attention now. Here’s the story. [...]
The Anonymous Alien Several months ago, I wrote a story on my company’s frustrating attempts to hire people, because prospective employees couldn’t answer basic questions, such as: Does the earth go around the sun, or the sun around the earth? Which ocean borders India? Seven years ago, how old were you? Who is Albert Einstein, [...]
The Anonymous Alien Stats on sexual abuse of children are indeed hard to come by in India, but from my own conversations, I believe it’s widespread. The story is most frequently something like this: A trusted relative or friend is put in a situation where they have private (and often repeated) access to a child. [...]
The Anonymous Alien My company is constantly promoting itself here in India. We place ads in newspapers, on radio, on TV… all over the place. We also use a public relations firm to get us meetings with newspaper reporters whenever we have something ‘big’ going on, and hope that they will write positive stories about [...]
The Anonymous Alien Back in 2008, the Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched its first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1. Its future plans include manned space flights, more trips to the moon and interplanetary probes. The cost of all this is in the billions.Spending billions for space exploration in a developing country with 500 million people who [...]
The Anonymous Alien A friend of mine was having severe pain. She refused to go to the doctor. I couldn’t figure out why, and insisted that she go. She refused. I basically said you are going whether you like it or not, then called around and got a referral to a gynaecologist at a top [...]
The Anonymous Alien I have a housekeeper. After she had been working for me a month or two, she arrived one day with a bruise on her face. I asked her about it, and after much prodding, she confessed that when her husband got drunk, which was often, he sometimes hit her. Not surprisingly, it [...]
The Anonymous Alien Indian-produced television shows stink. You know it, I know it, and even the producers of Indian TV shows know it. Want to know why they stink? Because Indians aren’t smart enough to watch ‘intelligent’ or ‘sophisticated’ television shows, so there’s no reason for producers to make them. Or so Indian producers would [...]
The Anonymous Alien The argument for invoking protectionist measures such as high duties on imported cars and technologies and blocking or hindering competition in domestic retail from companies like Walmart goes something like this: India is a developing country, and its home-grown companies need time to mature, adapt and prepare for competition from companies in [...]
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Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
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