Editor’s Note; It has been our practice to avoid writing about people or causes dear to us. But sometimes, we come across a story which needs to be told. This is one such.Pratham is a world-renowned Non-Governmental Organization (“NGO“). This is one case where adjectives actually understate the reality. Pratham began in 1994 as a small experiment in Mumbai….
Editor’s Note; It has been our practice to avoid writing about people or causes dear to us. But sometimes, we come across a story which needs to be told. This is one such.When you read or hear about health care in India, the words you hear are “inexpensive” or “cheap”. The allusion is that the primary…
Professor Niall Ferguson of Harvard-Oxford has compared today’s China with “Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany in the years before World War I; a growing, aggressive nationalistic power whose ambitions will tear through pre-existing commercial ties and historic friendships.” That is how David Brooks of the New York Times described Ferguson’s views in his own article Chinese Fireworks Display…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
Innovation is a key to enduring competitive advantage. Innovation that can open mass markets becomes an unsurmountable advantage in today’s globalized world. A Barrier To Entry is defined classically as an obstacle that makes it very difficult for a competitor to enter a market.When these concepts were discussed 30 odd years ago, poverty in the developing world…
We began writing about escalation of military & strategic tensions between China & India in June 2008. At that time, we heard Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale make a statement on TV about how the competition between these countries is now economic and how peace is breaking out. Frankly, this was the view in mainstream American &…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
Diwali is the most important festival in Indian Dharma. Like almost all of Indian precepts, the message of Diwali is both universal and historical. We take this opportunity to wish Happy Diwali to all our readers.Diwali or the Sanskrut “Deepavali” literally means a row of lights (Deep = light and Avali = row). As in the case…
Vikas Bajaj of the New York Times is a smart reporter who covers Indian economy better than most reporters. This week he wrote an article titled India Finds Itself Awash in Foreign Investment. While reading this article, we remembered that he had written another article in May 2009 titled India, Suddenly Starved for Investment. The difference…
India has a richer and more diverse collection of stories than any European or Middle Eastern culture or country. That is probably the result of a continuous, unbroken culture over the past 5,000 years. Every Indian child grows up being told these stories and reading them. A decade or so ago, many of these stories were picturized in…