Showing posts with label INSIGHT iNDIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label INSIGHT iNDIA. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

INDIA DISCOVERS IDEAL PASS-TIME

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In a country where youngsters consider SMSing jokes to each other as a happy 'time-pass' and an elderly man meeting another often as...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

What Indians don't seem to be learning? Can they?

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What Indians don't seem to be learning is that cars, mobiles, IT companies and malls don't make a successful, civilized country. Mor...
Friday, January 22, 2010

A LOT OF MICE HIDING IN RISING INDIA

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A Top Priority Business in India is Showing-off . Yes! That's the honest truth. And it has always been so. Those who have flaunt before...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

MEMORIES OF OLD BOMBAY AND BOLLYWOOD - 2

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As I mentioned in an earlier blog, the three studios located on Dadar Main Road made the street Bombay's Bollywood in the old days. Ther...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

WHERE ANCIENT ALIENATIONS EXPLODE TODAY

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India. Globalizing India. - Where millennia-old caste is a daily cruelty in many parts of the country, sparking intermittently into violence...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

TRAVELLER'S THOUGHTS

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As I travel through developed democracies, a constant question in my mind is: What does India need to do to join these countries? And observ...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

HOW TO PROTECT THE PATIENT'S RIGHTS IN INDIA

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In Doctor at Home, a Fitness-Health book written by my wife Jagjit and me, a whole chapter describes the patient's rights. And the docto...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

CAN INDIA MATCH HER SLUMDOG'S LUCK?

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Yes! Yes! Yes! She already has! For IT (which suits her youth's talents) to become a major world industry was indeed huge luck. The fail...
Friday, January 9, 2009

THE GREAT INDIAN DEMOCKERY!

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When Friedman said that India's advantage over China was democracy, it pleased those Indians who love flattery - among them the celebrat...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

IS A NEW INDIA EMERGING AT LAST?

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Surely, we see hopeful signs. At the candlelight vigils and the human chain in Mumbai after the terror attack, a common placard people held ...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

IS INDIA THE SOFTEST TERRORIST TARGET?

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As I type this blog the latest terrorist attack on Mumbai (Bombay) is not over. Divisive politics practised by politicians - whose sole conc...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

HOW TO VISIT AND UNLEARN AMERICA

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Three easy steps. 1. Visit America and admire the airports, malls and highways. And come back with great plans for progress. 2. Visit Americ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

IS INDIA RISING OR DISINTEGRATING?

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Looking at India's international business scorecards or Test cricket scores there's no doubt the country is rising. But looking at a...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

AN INSIGHT CELEBRATING INDIANS WILL NOT LIKE TO HEAR

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For many Indians enjoying themselves, to really enjoy themselves it's important that half the world - or at least the neighbourhood - kn...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

A CHINA vs INDIA INSIGHT THAT WILL ONLY PLEASE THE CHINESE

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The Beijing Olympics was a seamless spectacle. Detractors say it's the result of regimentation. The discerning see in the flawless show ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

BANGALORE'S 'UNWALKABLE' PAVEMENTS

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I have blogged earlier about Bangalore's amazing pavements. Now a study has confirmed that Bangalore has some of the most walker unfrien...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

SHARING IRRESPONSIBILITY

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Poverty of individual responsibility for the common good is a feature of countries where people subvert their own future. In India, for exam...
Thursday, June 5, 2008

INDIA'S GREAT GROWTH STORY

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Globalizing India is in a phase of hectic growth. Starting with malls and luxuries. Faberge and Vuitton first. Toyota and Jaguar first. Late...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

FAIRER THAN THE FAIREST? - INSIGHT INDIA

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India 2008 has discovered an instant coffee version of cricket. With international players. And cheerleaders imported from the U.S. Like eve...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

BUNGLE BEES OVER BANGALORE

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Election day, today, has put a stop to the buzzing of the bungle bees. For weeks the buzzing had grown louder and louder - to noise pollutio...