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A modern civilised nation is governed by rule of law and is held together as a society by cultural imperatives, codes of collective morals and ethics. It relies on shared history and common future aspirations to keep the nation together, united as one force. A large enough group of people can’t remain united without any…
Freedom fighter, original thinker, prolific writer, a true statesman and also, fortunately, the first PM of Independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in his seminal work, “Discovery of India” gives an account of his travel to the far and wide corners of the land in the pre-independence era, in most of these excursions he would hold…
India today magazine on its cover called India a “Failed state”. Shekhar Gupta in his national interest, a weekly opinion piece called India a “flailing state”. I would like to humbly disagree with both these characterisations, would instead like to say that in my view the Indian state is an ‘evaporating’ one. You may say…
(Note: The changes that we speak of in this article is expected to happen in the course of the next 10 years!) Workplace of the future (a part of which is already visible) is no longer going to be a ‘physical space‘ but a ‘network‘ that enables the staff to connect with the resources needed…
‘Business process outsourcing’, expansion of a three-letter word, BPO: brings food on the table of millions of Indians. This industry employees people in scores and mostly from the segment of the society in need of dire uplifting, immediate infusion of funds to make survival possible. BPO in the last 20 years has successfully created a new…
My introduction to the internet happened through electronic mail; I remember when my friend, created our first-ever email addresses – we celebrated that day, by sending each other a thank you note. We took turns on the same terminal – yeah, it is silly. We’re the last human generation from before the internet: from letters…
All of us have a productivity system, some of us recognise it as one such more than others but everyone has a way of getting things done. Especially in the high value creative/cognitive field, in which, the rules of the game are not as well defined and structured as in regular repetitive mechanical output-based work…
Here are easy recommendations from not so easy a year: 2020! 📚Books Fiction Don Quixote The Count of Monte Cristo Dune Foundation Into the Wild Non-Fiction Just Mercy Capital in the 21st Century How to Change Your Mind The Gulag Archipelago A Study of History Competing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Biography/Memoir Promised Land…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
Some fascinating stories in circulation on the web today. Earth is flat. ‘Moon landing’ was a conspiracy, it never happened. Herbs cure COVID19. Homosexuality is a disorder and it can be cured by Yoga. Our ‘race’ is the best. ‘Motivation and passion’ that is all that one needs to succeed in life. All of…