Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it, goes the wise saying. We have had Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parikh, Dotcom Hysteria and nobody learns. At the start of the year, I had predicted a year of cautious optimism. The silly FM wears his suits on Friday and starts selling the India story after two [...]
Archive for May, 2006
Market Crash Continues
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Castrated Bulls
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I was briefly watching CNBC yesterday. Interesting observation, some of the fund managers bullish on the India story, have taken a U-turn, finding all kinds of reasons why India is not so hot. Today the market crashed another 400 points. Tata Tea, a stock my grandfather bought 30 years ago, used to range between 200 [...]
Learning from Dhirubhai Ambani : Dhirubhaism I and II
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2006 | 13 Comments »
(via Business Standard and AG Krinshnamurthy) Dhirubhai gave management a whole new ‘ism’ and was no ordinary leader. He was a man who gave management a whole new “ism”. There is a new “ism” that I’ve been meaning to add to the vast world of words for quite a while now. Because, without exaggeration, it’s [...]
Human Resource Crisis : Wrong One
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There is an article in the Indian Express today, “The war for talent is hotting up as the services industry is all set to hire three lakh engineers from the available pool of 4.95 lakh in the next fiscal.” Here you have the HR director of Infosys, the former CFO, trying to start a new [...]
Bring the cycles back
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Petrol prices are expected to go up another 8%. The clueless FM, mainly out of touch, wants to issue oil bonds to cover subsidies. My advice bring the cycles back, make bus lanes and ban personal travel in peak hours. I experience traffic in two cities, Pune and Bangalore, and as you check with the [...]
Water : A Must Watch
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The film depicts the contrast that India lives with, where whatever is true the opposite is also true. India has made headlines as an emerging superpower, a land of high-tech multimillionaires and a vast new market for American goods. But there is another India too, and it is not just the one of villages and [...]
