So Nirmala Venkatesh has been removed from the National Commission of Women for stating what 95% (or more) of the population of India feels about the incident – in most parts of India, wearing skimpy clothes is asking for trouble. I once met a British lady tourist at Jaipur airport, the first thing she asked [...]
February 25, 2009 – 3:24 am
Harvard’s declining endowment funds – shows that most investment bankers are grossly overpaid, just because they handle the money, they get very high salaries and bonuses. Few have the judgement or foresight to take the correct decisions. A comment is even more interesting (the best part of Rediff are the comments) The worst fall-out of [...]
February 16, 2009 – 4:35 am
IT firms and the Indian market - I come from a non IT and internet background and have been very surprised how arrogant most IT and internet companies in India are. In engineering, even if you worked for the largest company in the industry and your customer was a very small company, you always tried [...]
February 9, 2009 – 12:46 am
In a few years, India will have the largest population in the world, so most companies don’t pay much attention to productivity. If you look at the revenues of major Indian internet companies , the revenue per employee is not very high. They seem to spend a lot of resources on marketing. So focussing on [...]
January 31, 2009 – 8:50 am
The colonised minds of the Indian Elite and media quoting from this article British colonisers in league with the Christian missionaries realised 200 years ago that the biggest obstacle to fully subjugating India was Hinduism.Simultaneously, they created in a span of two or three generations a class of Indians who looked up only to the [...]
January 25, 2009 – 4:49 am
In the current economic conditions, companies are trying to reduce their variable expenses, and one of the first casualties are the jobs. I personally feel that salaries in the last few years have increased too rapidly and many people are overpaid for doing too little work. The basic cost of living in India is still [...]
January 10, 2009 – 5:54 am
As the media covers the Satyam fraud , they should spend some time introspecting. Most of the corporates in India, especially family managed businesses reflect the values of the society in which we live, and how honest are people today? In the last five years, people have become very materialistic, how much money they think [...]
November 29, 2008 – 9:49 am
One of the reasons India is such a laggard in many fields is the attitude of most people. They have lead a very easy life and cannot take tough decisions quickly. Israel is such a small country, but they are able to defend themselves very well. As people used to tell me ” If you [...]
October 26, 2008 – 11:33 am
A post on investing in India . What is interesting is most of the startups have founders with a software background or are NRIs. The problem with working in a software company, however big or famous it is, is that you never see the full picture. You are only handle the software coding part , [...]
August 31, 2008 – 12:41 am
There is a lot of hype in the online and offline media about internet start ups in India. I have an internet business but I do not have a background in programming or the internet, so my way of looking at things is different. When I started my business, I did not know any one [...]