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The farmer’s plight 15 Sep 2011 | 03:25 pm
The Indian farmer’s life is in danger. Not just now, but it has been so for a couple of hundred years. Though we would like to believe that the widespread use of industrial fertilisers and pesticides...
The Consulting Conundrum 26 Aug 2011 | 08:05 am
In a meeting yesterday, this is what a prospective client of mine told me: “We’ve hired consultants before. They are full of babble. They don’t deliver.” I was affronted. And hurt. You see, I’m a con...
Indian consumers voice concerns over GM food 28 Mar 2011 | 11:27 pm
What with cricket, scams and forthcoming state elections ruling the headlines, the debate over introducing genetically-modified (GM) food/crops in India is almost forgotten. Is that a good thing? Depe...
Surviving the 21st century 17 Feb 2011 | 02:23 am
The impact of the internet, the mobilephone and air travel is beyond doubt. Technology has indeed changed our lives: helping us to connect with our family and friends, to conduct business speedily, to...
What's new 1 Apr 2010 | 07:57 pm
I hear people declare these days, “consumers trust products and brand recommendations from people they know” (or words to this effect), as if it’s some kind of revelation. But, hasn’t this always been...
My favourite things 2 Jan 2010 | 01:17 am
More than anything else, 2009, for me, was the year in which my life was overwhelmed by social media (my own project for children included in it), Jacqueline Novogratz’ book The Blue Sweater, the UN C...
The greatest evil 15 Nov 2009 | 04:52 pm
The use of fear as a weapon is nothing new. Not just in war or by totalitarian governments upon their people or by the mafia or by landlords over farmers and peasants in agrarian societies like India,...
Evil in their blood 7 Nov 2009 | 07:46 am
Although we tend to single out Adolf Hitler and the Nazis for their evil nature and deeds, we all know that they weren’t the only ones in modern history. In fact, a few years before World War 2, durin...
Is man good or evil? 25 Oct 2009 | 04:32 pm
Danny Archer: So you think because your intentions are good, they'll spare you, huh? Benjamin Kapanay: My heart always told me that people are inherently good. My experience suggests otherwise. But wh...
Evil against the ‘other’ 16 Oct 2009 | 10:06 pm
One aspect of Neill Blomkamp’s film District 9 (see my previous blog) that intrigued me was the question of man’s willingness and capacity to do evil. Not just evil against the ‘other’ (depicted, in t...
