A painting is not a bond. A sculpture is not a share certificate. You like an MF Husain or Tyeb Mehta painting because you can look at it for hours and marvel at the brush strokes that evoke history, politics, religion, philosophy; interpreting the scope of human existence itself within the four corners of an otherwise mute canvas. It is a thing of beauty. And you appreciate it. That is...
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Too Big To Lead The media speculation around L&T supremo AM Naik's succession reached a feverish pitch last year. Yet no one had much of a clue on how L&T could possibly find a replacement to lead the engineering and infrastructure behemoth. It's another matter that by then, the L&T board had figured out a solution. We were the first to tell you about how they decided to deal with...
10:49 AM, Dec 31, 2011
There is no hint in Mahammod Khans boyish face and gentle demeanour that he is a member of Parliament from Kandahar, a province in southern Afghanistan where ordinary citizens have blind dates with violent death almost every day. As he talks of leaving Kandahar for the relative safety of Kabul, Khan, a 30-something doctor of medicine, pours green tea into white china cups and leans back in his faux leather...
01:29 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Nearly nine million Afghans are living in extreme poverty because of a lack of investment in farming, Mohammad Asif Rahimi, Afghanistans minister for agriculture, livestock and irrigation, said on October 16, World Food Day. The World Bank estimates that about 36 per cent of Afghans live below the poverty line or survive on less than $ 25 a month and nearly half the population lives on less than $ 30...
10:47 AM, Nov 14, 2011
Frank-Jurgen Richter Age: 44 Designation: Chairman, Horasis Education: Diploma in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering, Doctorate in Business Administration Career: 1994-2000: Robert Bosch GmbH (four years as CFO China, based in Beijing), 2001-2004: Director, World Economic Forum Interests: Travelling the world, learning languages, reading (classics, post-modern writing, history and economy), sports Do you think there is a leadership deficit in Europe? I think Europe really has a leadership deficit. The...
11:10 AM, Oct 10, 2011
Ally Derks remembers the day she was having a drink with Michael Moore in a small bar in Washington D.C. in 1989. Moore had just made Roger and Me, a searing documentary on the economic devastation of Flint, Michigan, after General Motors shut its plant there leaving thousands of workers jobless overnight. "The next day, Moore was a millionaire," says Derks, director of the International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA), the...
10:32 AM, Mar 18, 2011
In a disarming and seemingly innocuous tone, the prime minister of the world’s largest democracy tried to achieve the impossible in his chat with editors on February 16, in the middle of the worst crisis of confidence that his government has faced in its second term. He both accepted and denied responsibility for corruption in his government in that one sentence, adding fuel to an already raging fire. In less...
05:41 PM, Mar 01, 2011
In the preface to First Draft, B.G. Verghese says, “my reports and reflections from day to day were my story, a worm’s eye view of the world as it passed me by.’’ The view is of a person who stood by the ringside as events unfolded, shaping the history of India. First Draft is an account of the past half-century of the country as seen by Verghese; mostly as a...
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India has however, stopped short of blaming the Pak army openly. ...
12:00 PM, Jan 09, 2009
The inside story of how mutual fund houses played dangerously. ...
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