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So little has changed since I wrote this a year ago: We have one Sea Link in Mumbai (named after the same person whose name prefixes Hyderabad?s airport and a million other things.) There is another one planned, from Worli to Haji Ali. Now, there is an idea of a Coastal Road as a possible [...]
This week’s links: How leaders kill meaning at work: from McKinsey Quarterly. “Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways.” The right role for top teams: from strategy+business. “Analysis of informal networks offers a potent leadership model for the C-suite: Make top [...]
History is about people, their motivations and their actions. With 20-20 hindsight, we can study what people in the past did and how successful they were in their objectives. Understanding our past will help us decide what we should do in the present and guide us into the future. This is, in some ways, the [...]
In India, politics has been reduced to a focus on the trivial. . The UP elections seem to focus on caste, quotas and freebies. It is a race to the bottom. At least that is what it seems from the outside. Populism, more than progressive policies, rules. Maybe it will take another election for different [...]
My motivation in reading about the past has been to see if there is a way we in India can make a better political choice in 2014, when the next elections are due (unless of course, we have a mid-term poll). Will the Congress be back for one more term? Will the BJP manage to [...]
Over the past month or so, I have begun to read India?s post-Independence history. The objective was to get a better understanding of India?s political past, so one can think about the future. The idea was to understand the evolution of the various political leaders, dig deeper into the events that have shaped the policies [...]
History was never a subject I particularly liked when in school. Maybe, it was because all it involved was memorisation of lots of dates and events, and other random stuff. History just seemed so static ? we were studying our own country, but in a sort of distant way. And then there was world history [...]
From a post a year ago: Asking the right question can make all the difference. It was the right question that led Atanu Dey to a different career. His question: ?Why is India poor?? This is a question which can, I hope, one day transform a nation?s future. I thought of this again when Bhavana [...]
This week’s links: The coming tech-led boom: from WSJ. “In January 2012, we sit again on the cusp of three grand technological transformations with the potential to rival that of the past century. All find their epicenters in America: big data, smart manufacturing and the wireless revolution.” Top Tech Trends: from IEEE Spectrum. “Prediction of [...]
One point to note about India is the huge base of feature phones. These are not the smartphone variety with Android, iOS or Blackberry?s operating systems and app stores. It will take some time before the smartphones reach critical mass. So, in the near-term, the opportunity is not as much on apps but on delivering [...]
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