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DisclaimerThis post is being written without seeing the 1st episode that went on air today but that is for a reason. Read on to find out. Satyameva Jayate went on air today and the cyber world is full of comments about the pros and cons of doing such a show, its format, its timing, its tone and delivery etc. I thought I would focus on the intent of the show and see what does it mean for us as Indians to do a show about our issues? For as long as I can remember the underbelly of India has been ...

With the American economy still stuttering and eurozone is in deep fiscal distress, the centre of gravity of global power and business is shifting eastward towards Asia. Here, there is, in varying degrees, growth and prospect of more growth. More importantly, there is hope, something which is in short supply, in many parts of the rest of the world. Ten years ago, the three largest economies — the US, the EU and Japan — accounted for two-thirds of the global economy. Today, it is less than half. By 2020, China will be the largest economy, says an IMF study. By ...

The recent trends and issues in global economy are marked by a few highlights: decline or stagnancy in the growth-rates of most developed economies, rise of BRICKS nations, Euro Zone crisis, failure of several banks and financial institutions, Occupy Movement in several Western Cities against ‘corporate greed’, decline in ecological standards globally, natural catastrophes hitting all too frequently, rise of global terrorism taking a huge economic toll, militarization in Western economies to artificially pump in demand into their sagging growth-rates, high unemployment rates world-over even in the developed nations, demand for clean energy and fuel, and a clear movement towards ...

CSR as reflected in mainstream Media Reflection of CSR in particular and development issues in general in mainstream media in developed and developing nations has been of low in general, except on certain days (like World Health Day or World Environment Day). There are very few exceptions and far in between. Programs like Living on the Edge in Star Channel once are very few. Specific dedicated pages in newspapers (general or business) or a CSR program every week in a business channel is still not the reality in UK or India, USA or UAE. While business media has grown several ...

Innovation is something that every organization needs today. This need is doubly assured for the domain of media, communication and entertainment. No content of media or its delivery etc can survive with the audiences without constant innovations. Major innovations in contemporary media hover around CONVERGENCE in every sphere of media functioning: consumption, ownership, content creation, marketing and delivery. ...

When Shashi Tharoor, the Congress Member of Parliament called the NRI’s as the National Reserves of India while coordinating the panel discussion on Partnering for Prosperity at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2012 held at Jaipur, he managed to have an emotional connect with the NRI audience who gave him an applause. “We consider NRIs as National Reserve of India and this is the reason we invite you to come and invest in India which holds tremendous investment opportunities in the sectors of education, healthcare and infrastructure. There could be some operational challenges, but these are the areas we look forward ...

As I am writing this short note from Dubai, I am reminded of a young man in early 40s, Subhra Das, from the shores of Brahmaputra, in Assam, with whom I had dinner at his house in Dubai. He is the Marketing Head (Exec Vice President) of the leading Middle East telecom company, Du Telecom, and the man behind Subhra Soul music (jazz). Hardly in his early 40s, and has already launched 6 telecom companies in Asia and Africa, he is now thinking of integrating interactive target-specific content with telecom broadband pipes; and practising fresh, innovative, simple and experiential ideas ...

Innovation is something that is as close to life as our own thoughts, perceptions and feelings. Consider a situation where you have achieved a certain position in your life, and you are quite happy with yourself. Now, you might get laid back and feel yourself as the king of the world. But eventually, people will begin to forget you and your achievements, because another person has achieved something bigger or has something better to present to people. Thus, you end up becoming a blemishing Ben, and this could have been prevented, had you not relaxed and instead acted on the next ...

When I started writing a blog for this website, never did I think that I will write one on cricket, followed by another one on cricket. India, after all, is a huge country with several issues that merit a discussion every day. This month, for example, we had the controversial Railway budget (check up some sites if you already haven’t to get an idea of the mess that followed); the budget, the big one, which had the critics frowning as it usually does; and of course, the emergence of the young Samajwadi Party politician Akhilesh Yadav, who masterminded his party’s ...

Will our collective obsession with Indian cricket wither away? As and when our team manages to have a sequence of big wins – which it will, cricket being an unpredictable form of sport – any such question will sound comically preposterous. The reason: no matter how badly our players might have performed till the sudden turnaround, the popularity of Indian cricketers can be only matched by Bollywood stars: an iconic player like Sachin Tendulkar being as big as Shah Rukh Khan. We love them madly, with no criticism attached. ...