You are warned. These heritage buildings will collapse ! It seems our Government officials are suffering from a disease called MAFA. An abbreviation, acronym for an official mindset of Indian bureaucrats coined by N.R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys. MAFA means ‘Mistaking Articulation For Accomplishment.’ Meaning, these officials think just by perpetually talking about a problem,…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Traditional thinking associates leadership with authority and it is intuitively interpreted as having the power to lead people and organisations to bring about the change that one desires. Occupying positions of authority reinforces this understanding and people start relying more and more on the ‘power’ that goes with the position. Over…
Kashmir is no more the special one. But it remains so for the Congress Party and Pakistan. And why not? Kashmir has been used and misused for politics both within India and Pakistan. After the special status to Kashmir was revoked, a headline in a Pakistani newspaper read, “Madman on the loose” with the photograph…
Do we need a Holocaust Museum? The morning of Monday, 5th August, 2019 will be remembered as the Red Letter Day, as the historic day of Independent India. If you wonder why, the answer is in the historic decision taken by the BJP-NDA Narendra Modi Government on that Monday morning in the Rajya Sabha. That…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC At a fund-raising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disability, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. He started by first extolling the school and its dedicated staff, and as he came to…
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains about the effects of alcohol on dogs and moths’ reaction to light By Maneka Gandhi Recently a dog became famous all over social media for his antics after drinking alcohol. Should I let my pet consume alcohol? Dogs should never have any type of alcohol — or even…
China expressed its scornfulness openly after a visit to Beijing in mid 2018 by Ram Madhav, considered a Chanakya by the BJP establishment for unknown reasons. He is famous for making the mess in Kashmir messier. By T.J.S. George Two years ago, the then Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar (now Foreign Minister) said that India’s rise…
The death of V.G. Siddhartha, Founder of Cafe Coffee Day (CCD), shocked everyone but the way he died was what made it disturbing, sombre and sad. Now it has been assumed that the “reclusive billionaire,” once ranked the 75th richest man in India by Forbes magazine-2015, gave up on life because of money problems !…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I feel that in the sad and untimely death of V.G. Siddhartha, we have lost a very dignified and respectable man who was much loved and admired although sometimes also envied in plantation and industry circles. The circumstances leading to his premature death and the obvious and unseen forces…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Last week, I had the privilege of visiting Kanchipuram with my better half. The magnet, of course, was to see the famous “Atthi Varadar,” who was brought out of a pond for just 40 days and immersed back into the pond to be taken out after another 40…
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