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Monday 12 September 2011

Passionate About India: HOUSEWIVES ARE AN INVALUABLE UNPAID RESOURCE AND D...

Passionate About India: HOUSEWIVES ARE AN INVALUABLE UNPAID RESOURCE AND D...: At least the apex court felt the need to slam the administration over clubbing housewives and women engaged in domestic work along with the ...

Wednesday 7 September 2011

Passionate About India: The desirability of living forever

Passionate About India: The desirability of living forever: Two weeks back, I read this most amazing article in The Times Of India’s international news page. It spoke of a scientist claiming that thos...

Saturday 27 August 2011

Arindam Chaudhuri at Ramlila ground with Anna Hazare

Friday 26 August 2011

IIPM New Edition: The Sunday Indian: I would love to remake Amar Akbar Anthony

IIPM New Edition: The Sunday Indian: I would love to remake Amar Akbar Anthony: IIPM Mumbai Campus

The maker of "Lagaan", "Jodhaa Akbar", and now "khelein hum jee jaan sey", Ashutosh Gowariker has his eyes trained on...

Tuesday 23 August 2011

IIPM PostGraduate (MBA) and UnderGraduate (BBA) Courses / Degree: A Kerala architect finds an admirer in Rahul Gandh...

IIPM PostGraduate (MBA) and UnderGraduate (BBA) Courses / Degree: A Kerala architect finds an admirer in Rahul Gandh...: IIPM Mumbai Campus

Kerala Personality :From mud to cloud nine

Gopal Sankar, the internationally acclaimed architect, relaxing after ...

Saturday 6 August 2011

Business is Marketing: WHAT’S YOUR WINNING LOOK?!

Business is Marketing: WHAT’S YOUR WINNING LOOK?!: "Meet the “Man your man could smell like”. That’s the new viral-video that’s clearly broken all previous viral-video records. It features Isa..."

Wednesday 3 August 2011

IIPM - MEDIA: The self-made Indian auto maverick

IIPM - MEDIA: The self-made Indian auto maverick: "After working for 4 of the world’s top automakers for more than 15 years, Mitra is a true veteran in the Indian auto industry, says Pawan Ch..."

Wednesday 27 July 2011

HOW THE ARAB UPRISING IS A "CHANGE OF CIVILISATION" AND HOW IT BRINGS AN END TO THE AMERICAN DOUBLE STANDARDS. ALSO WHAT INDIA MUST LEARN

March, 2011
What he did instead was to call for Lord Indra to shower his blessing to ensure that agriculture productivity is not hampered due to inadequate rainfall. Of course, other than praying for Lord Indra, he also committed a few hundred crores towards pulses, milk, eggs, vegetables and other agri-commodities, but then provided no support system to boost their productivity and irrigation. And it is not that this is fact is unknown to him that China has dramatically improved its irrigation systems since the last couple of decades and is investing $2 billion annually to upkeep the standards. Additionally, this year, the Chinese government is planning to invest another 20 billion yuan ($293 million) for improving water irrigation and safety projects. And all this when around 50 per cent of China’s arable land is now irrigated – in comparison to just 30 per cent of total arable land in India. No wonder, our gross agriculture output is still a mere 40 percent of that of China! That apart, in his address, there was not even a single occasion where our FM announced any concrete plans to bring a second round of green revolution, an issue has almost become a national imperative now.

Moving from agriculture to the second issue that has been haunting the country all-year round – corruption and black money. It requires no statistical analysis to establish that corruption and scams can only be addressed by a strong judiciary and judicial reforms. Again, in this budget, as a sign of mere tokenism, Rs 1500 crores has been allocated for the judiciary, which includes setting up of rural and e-courts. No announcements were made to provide courts with special powers or creating special courts to fasten the judicial process. Same goes for black money. To address the whole issue on black money, the FM announced a five-fold strategy, but no strategy to get back the money already stashed abroad. For records, it’s primarily due to corruption and a perforated judicial system that our country has managed to stash an obscene figure of 1.4 trillion dollars in various tax havens. In fact, a brief glance through the budget speech indicates that Pranabda spoke six paragraphs on black money but found it inadequate to draft a single para to contain it, or to bring back the money from tax havens.
originally posted at:http://www.arindamchaudhuri.com/india-today-tomorrow/11-march.html

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Theory "i" managment

Predictable ? Should be. It is most likely that a style that is successful in Japan would not be as successful in the US and vice versa. People are different, the cultures are different and so is the life-style. That is the reason why Japan has developed its own management style and the US its own. If we take a deep look into the American management style, we realise that it is absolutely fine tuned to the American culture and way of living. The people in the west grow up, mostly, with very less emotional security due to factors like high divorce rates, single parent families etc. As they grow up they do tend to find a sense of stability in this seemingly unstable and insecure atmosphere. Thus, when they enter into their job lives and see a management culture prevalent which is contractual in nature with hire and fire style of management, they don’t get disturbed. Infact, this motivates them to work harder and a typical American would say “we are tough guys and as long as we are good the company keeps us, else we go out”. The bottom line is that the fine tuning between the culture at home and at job works wonders and enhances productivity and motivation.

originally posted at http://www.arindamchaudhuri.com/theory-i-managment.html

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IIPM B-school of MBA BBA EMBA Integrated Courses: A new study says Indians are most depressed

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

....................Lowest prevalence of MDE was in China(12%). The average age of depression in India is 31.9 years compared to 18.8 years in China, and 22.7 years in the US. The study, published in the BMC Medicine journal and based on interviews of more than 89,000 people in 18 different countries by 20 different researchers, says depression affects nearly 121 million people worldwide. It is the second contributor to shorter lifespan for individuals in the 15-44 age group. The percentage of respondents, who had lifetime MDE was higher in high-income (28.1%) than in low to middle-income (19.8%) countries. When it came to lifetime prevalence rates of depression, France (21%) and the US (19.2%) reported the highest rates of depression. Women are twice as likely to suffer depression as men and the loss of a partner, whether from death or divorce, was a main factor, the study reveals. WHO ranks depression as the fourth leading cause of disability worldwide and projects that by 2020, it will be the second leading cause..............

originally posted at http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-study-says-indians-are-most.html

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NOW, EVEN JAIRAM RAMESH SAYS DARE TO THINK BEYOND THE IIMS AND THE IITS!

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

...............dventurous young man which was nicely reflected in the caption "Taste The Thunder". All this came to nothing when a giant like Coca Cola entered the market. Thums Up got sold off. One of the best Indian brand names today sells under the aegis of Coca Cola. This proves the point that the capitalist economy is based on the concept of survival of the fittest. In a jungle, fittest refers to the strongest or the one who can best adjust to the existing environment; In an economy, fittest would refer to the richest. Therefore we see that the market economy has always helped the rich to grow richer at the cost of the others...............

originally posted at http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.com/2010/09/pursuit-of-happiness.html

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Tuesday 26 July 2011

NOW, EVEN JAIRAM RAMESH SAYS DARE TO THINK BEYOND THE IIMS AND THE IITS!

The first question we must ask is what makes a great institution? The answer to that is actually very simple! Great course content and great faculty! Course content, however, is copyable and quite standardised – at least amongst the world’s finest institutions! Faculty, therefore, becomes the most important distinguishing factor. Different streams of education require different kinds of faculty expertise. Management education requires faculty members, for example, to have great communication skills, great consulting and industry interface, and of course, regular research and writing. Similarly, engineering requires faculty to undertake research first as a key aspect apart from other things like the ability to teach and communicate. And this is where the IITs and the IIMs have a massive problem (apart from many other huge problems, for example, the lack of global exposure or the rank bad selection criteria of students at IIMs where primarily male engineers get through to their management programmes instead of commerce and arts graduates who have relatively higher EQ – a far more important criteria to become a better manager than simply having a high IQ).

Originally posted at: http://www.arindamchaudhuri.com/india-today-tomorrow/11-may.htm
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Survival of the weakest

Capitalism from the very beginning has been based on the principle of individualism and survival of the fittest. When Adam Smith had talked about man being rational and therefore trying to maximize his returns if left free in the market... he had also referred to the same principle. The rules of the capitalist market have always wanted us to compete with others and maximize our benefits (read as profits). Critics point out the fact that when left free in a market an individual's return is not only a function of his competence and efforts (in terms of the number of hours he puts in) but also a function of his past accumulated wealth (on which he might have had no contribution). Based on the same argument some economists in India don't want MNCs to enter India as the survival of Indian companies is not only dependant on the quality of the products they produce but also on how strong is the competitor. Thums Up is not only an example of a quality product but also an example of brand building. Perhaps it was India's best ever example of an original brand name around which an identifiable brand personality had been built. The ad campaigns used to be most creative wherein the name Thums Up would coincide with the image that comes into mind; An image of a free, excited, adventurous young man which was nicely reflected in the caption "Taste The Thunder". All this came to nothing when a giant like Coca Cola entered the market. Thums Up got sold off. One of the best Indian brand names today sells under the aegis of Coca Cola. This proves the point that the capitalist economy is based on the concept of survival of the fittest. In a jungle, fittest refers to the strongest or the one who can best adjust to the existing environment; In an economy, fittest would refer to the richest. Therefore we see that the market economy has always helped the rich to grow richer at the cost of the others. This statement is authenticated by the fact that in USA the top 5% and top 20% of the economy who used to earn 15.5% and 41.1% of the total national income in 1973 were earning 17.9% and 44% of the total national income in 1989 respectively. The income earned by the lowest 20% of USA fell down from 5.5% to 4.6% during the same period while those of the lowest 4/5th of the economy fell down from 11.9% to 10.6%. The same applies to most of the other countries following the free market system.
Originally posted at :http://www.arindamchaudhuri.com/survival-of-the-weakest.html
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Passionate About India: Ever wondered why, while attacks in Mumbai keep ha...

July 22, 2011

Ever wondered why, while attacks in Mumbai keep happening, another 9/11 has not happened in the US?

......................better known as POTA, which was used by law enforcement agencies more to arrest people who were innocent rather than actual terrorists. The abuse and misuse of the law was so rampant that the law, for sometime, had to be repealed. For the uninitiated, this law was on the lines of UK’s Prevention of Terrorism Act and America’s PATRIOT Act. However, unlike our law, their laws strengthened the anti-terror operations and aided the counter-terrorism cell..................

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Typos: THE BOAT WITH A WAGGING TALE

Thursday, September 9, 2010

THE BOAT WITH A WAGGING TALE

...............Tourists had invaded every shy corner; trinket toting hustlers from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh lined the walkways along the lagoon and fossil-fuel belching motoscafi (motorised taxi-boats) terrorised the gentle quiet of the narrow canals…I had come to Venice seeking a city famed for her limpid beauty and instead I found a city writhing, ripped and ravished...............

Originally posted at :http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.com/2010/09/boat-with-wagging-tale.html

Saturday 23 July 2011

Typos: THE ISLAND

Thursday, August 26, 2010

“Thisss eeezz Poveglia…!” and he let the words hang in the salt-thick sea air. I stared silently at the island as it floated on the mist and myth that surrounded it. It was almost dusk and as the sun set behind the silhouetted island, for a brief moment, the sea and the island’s bell tower seemed to have been set on fire… reminiscent of the tall flames that used to crackle on this island centuries ago… flames, the smoke and the screams… screams that rent sky, until the fire doused the screams…

Originally posted at : http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.com/2010/08/island.html

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Typos: IN THE MASTER’S WAKE

Thursday, July 21, 2011

If, for some masochistic reason, you happen to have read more than one of these weekly columns I drag and wrench out of my reluctant laptop, you’d know that I’m an absolute sucker for miracle-tales. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years in dusty libraries pouring over crumbly sepia-tinged, dog-eared pages and websites that promise to reveal ‘the secrets of energy and ecstasy’, loo King for tangible evidence of a claimed miracle. And I’ve seen glimpses… a shadow here, a silhouette there, but nothing more that I could touch, tell and know. I’ve trudged through the proverbial deserts and valleys, and desolate forts, and waited by the banks of unnamed rivers in forgotten forests in search of a promised sign or a whispered legend, and heard a lot, but saw very little...................

Originally posted at : http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-masters-wake.html

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Friday 22 July 2011

Passionate About India: Ever wondered why, while attacks in Mumbai keep ha...

New Delhi, July 21, 2011 22:34
Mumbai has become a living example of how terrorists can come at their will, kill hundreds of innocents, destroy property worth hundreds of crores, instill a state of perpetual fear in those who manage to survive and thereby blatantly spit on the face of Indian sovereignty, time and again. And the best that we can do is offer condolences for the aggrieved, and wait for the next blast to happen. No doubt, we have attained a state of shameless vulnerability and have almost epitomised it. And that is the reason why since the last few years, the incidence of terror attacks has not only seen an unprecedented surge, but has become increasingly blatant, gory and on the face. It is as if a blast or two a year has almost become an annual ritual. And every such blast also blows away into pieces the resolve that our government had taken during the previous attack – calling it a bold step against terror. And the saga continues...

Originally posted at : http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.com/2011/07/ever-wondered-why-while-attacks-in.html

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IIPM B-school of MBA BBA EMBA Integrated Courses: Sell your old stuff online

Friday, July 22, 2011

The Indian consumer likes to stay abreast with the latest technology and devices. With multiple launches happening across categories such as phones, tablets, automobiles etc. every month, an average consumer is spoilt for choice.

The purchase is not limited to just shops anymore; online market in India is also growing at exponential rate. However, what happens to the stuff that is getting old? It is either handed down among relatives or just stuffed at a corner in the house accumulating dust, more often the latter.

An alternate solution is to just sell it online. Online selling is not as big as online purchase in India at the moment, but it is also growing.

The following websites are your best bet to get good money out of your old stuff without having to worry about getting conned...................

Originally posted at : http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/07/sell-your-old-stuff-online.html

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Typos: YET ANOTHER CHRISTMAS CAROL

Thursday, August 19, 2010

This tale is not mine to tell but one I stumbled upon … last day in Antwerp and while my friends emptied out souvenir and designer stores, I wandered about the city square till I saw two tall towers, peering above the rest of the city, glinting in the fading light of a spent sun. It was the city cathedral. Inside the cathedral, stood proud old walls adorned with masterpieces by the Flemish master Sir Paul Peter Reubens. I started taking pictures of the cathedral’s tall spires. As I backed away to try and squeeze the length of the tower inside the frame, I stumbled and fell bum-first onto a low platform that rose less than three feet from the cobbled street. It was a stone plaque with a pen-and-ink picture of a big dog and a little boy with an inscription that said, “Nello and his dog Patrasche… symbols of eternal friendship, loyalty and devotion.”.............

Originally posted at : http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.com/2010/08/yet-another-christmas-carol.html

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Ever wondered why, while attacks in Mumbai keep happening, another 9/11 has not happened in the US? - The Sunday Indian

Originally posted at : http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/ever-wondered-why-while-attacks-in-mumbai-keep-happening-another-911-has-not-happened-in-the-us/18836/

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Thursday 21 July 2011

http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Cricket-match-at-IIPM-Indore/

02 Jul '11

In the past quarter, the cricket fever hit the nation hard, after our victory in the world cup followed by the last season of IPL. Taking this fever to higher temperatures IIPM, Indore arranged a Cricket match on the 2nd of July’2011 under the Torque club.

With 4 teams playing in the preliminary rounds trying to score that coveted position in the finals and a chance to defeat our faculty, the entire atmosphere was filled with excitement. After a long rainy week, the city finally was blessed with a lovely sunny weather which just added to the exquisite atmosphere that was built up. Students of all sections and batches gathered to cheer for their favorite teams and players. With each six and four and all the catches and ibw’s the crowd just went crazy, screaming. ....................

Originally posted at : http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Cricket-match-at-IIPM-Indore/

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IIPM B-school of MBA BBA EMBA Integrated Courses: 9 Distance Learning Programmes and Courses that as...

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

For a long time distance learning institutes were associated with regular courses in Humanities and Social Sciences with a few adventurous ones such as Annamalai venturing into Science streams as well. But in recent years, DL institutions have moved towards courses that have immediate employment potential. Offered in association with either a private institute or a corporation, these programmes have become a rage, though issues of quality, governance, academic control and cost do arise in these cases. But their ability to generate employable graduates is not in question anymore...............

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COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: THE TRACK OF DEATH

Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Indian Railways is just not a mode of transport but is a legacy in itself. A mode of conveyance that carries more than 10 billion passengers every year, operates more than 15,000 trains every day, and covers almost four time distance between the earth and the moon and well, records in around 350 accidents every year — is a case study in itself.
Originally posted at : http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.com/2011/07/track-of-death.html
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Typos: BETRAYAL AT CHAURI CHAURA

Thursday, August 12, 2010

The harm that good men do’, was an essay by Bertrand Russell that I never finished reading but was a heading I oft en thought about whenever I heard the name Gandhi being discussed… I had oft en witnessed disparate schools of thought converging on the notion that Gandhi the man, as well as Gandhi the idea, had often done more harm than good to the cause of this nation’s freedom, from both communalism and colonialism. Many years ago, on this very day, the 4th of February, near the town of Gorakhpur, there once lay 22 charred bodies and a few blackened bayonets. And amidst the rubble and ruins of that day, there also lay the smoking ruins of a nation’s aspirations. The year was 1922 and the place – a little known police station in a town called Chauri Chaura.....
Originally posted at :http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.com/2010/08/betrayal-at-chauri-chaura.html
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Tuesday 19 July 2011

Typos: WHOSE COUNTRY IS IT ANYWAY?

Typos: WHOSE COUNTRY IS IT ANYWAY?: "Belgium’s got to be one of the quirkiest countries around - so quirky, that by the look of things, it’s unlikely to remain a country for lon..."

Mumbai attacked again, 3 blasts in Dadar West, Zaveri Bazar and Opera House, killed 19

IIPM B-school of MBA BBA EMBA Integrated Courses.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Terror struck Mumbai again when three serial blasts in crowded areas killed 18 people and injured 113. The blasts took place in Dadar (West), Zaveri Bazar and Opera House.

Mumbai Police Commissioner Aroop Patnaik said it was a terror strike. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Home Minister P Chidambaram to extend all possible help to the families of the dead and the injured.………………..

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