Special Report
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Alienation: Business In the Red Corridor
A Jharkhand village lies trapped between the state and the Maoists
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Rumination: Gains of Growth in India
Tribal and farmer protests are often a clamour for participation in India's growth
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12 Big Debates That Define Our Times, Settled
Complex debates that define our society analysed and resloved by the keenest thought leaders of our time
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Madhu Kishwar: Urbanisation And Poor
The United Nations estimates that more than 40 percent of India’s population will be living in urban areas by 2030, making it the fastest urbanising country in the world. As cities encroach upon the countryside, rural areas are facing a dearth of talent and labour. The people who migrate to urban centres, meanwhile, lead a miserable existence on the margins
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Rama Bijapurkar: The Whole Six Yards
Many countries like China and Japan underwent a social engineering before they became economic powers. Those nations now have largely homogenous populations and cultures. India, however, abounds in diverse, often conflicting, populations and cultures. But there seems to be a convergence of aspiration among its people. Only the ways to achieve the goals differ
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A. Damodaran: The Despair of The Ganges
The Ganges has sustained a civilisation, including the world’s oldest continuously populated city of Varanasi. It has now become the victim of the same civilisation that bloomed in its bosom. In many ways, the majestic Ganga symbolises one of the biggest conflicts of our times — protecting the environment and biodiversity without compromising growth, development and economic progress
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Free Enterprise Vs. Regulation
Raghuram Rajan had seen the impact of over-regulation in an underachieving economy. Years later, he also saw the perils of under-regulation as championed during the Alan Greenspan era. The Eric J. Gleacher, Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business discusses the question of achieving the right mix of free enterprise and sensible regulation
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Vijay Govindarajan: Jugaad - A Model for Innovation
It is a word that has travelled from India’s hinterlands to the management lexicon. Meet Jugaad, the innovative workaround to complex problems. The problem arises when people start looking at it as a permanent solution
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Vijay Mahajan: Values vs.Valuations
Corporations are partly responsible for and have suffered the effects of the triad of crises — social, environmental and economic — that have hit the world since 2008. An ‘ideal’ corporation today would be one that takes care of society, employs a lot of people and is environmentally conscious
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Azim Premji: The Business of Ecology
The multiple debates over ecology are bound to be the defining issues of humanity over the next few decades. This would drive both risks and opportunities. Smart companies know that an improvement in ecology will determine economic sustainability. And whatever is ethical, whatever is good for the society, will eventually be good for business too
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Shashi Tharoor: War For Peace
Throughout history, men have waged war for power, wealth, land and occasionally over women. But rarely, except in the past two or three centuries have they gone to war to bring peace. Is peace really the raison d’etre for the wars being fought in different parts of the world? Or are the real reasons the same as history has taught us?