Entrepreneurship and National Pride
ITTIAM (I Think Therefore I Am) is one of the 'First Generation' technology product companies started in India. Mr.Srini Rajam along with some of his collegues from Texas Instruments (TI)…
The Human Resources (HR) function: Asset or Liability?
In the year 2000 I got a change to attend a series of Pre-Placement-Talks (PPT in our college ‘lingo’) by various organizations during their campus recruitment process. I used to…
Tamil-Nadu Real Estate: Macro Analysis
When it comes to investing we need to evaluate the ‘Macro’ (Top-down) and ‘Micro’ (Bottom-up) analysis of the instrument and real estate is no exception to that. One of my…
Poka-Yoke : The Japanese way of ‘Mistake-Proofing’
When it comes to quality nobody can deny the contributions made by Japanese. Especially in the automobile and electronic industries they literally re-wrote the meaning of ‘Competition’ by innovating ‘Low-cost-high-quality’…
Moms and Mega serials
My 55 year old mother watches 3 mega-serials every day in TV and feels very uncomfortable if she misses a single episode of any of those three. Apart from watching,…
BOOK REVIEW : Five point someone
Title: Five point someoneAuthor: Chetan BhagatPrice: 90 INRThis book is written by Chetan Bhagat about life in IITs. Three friends (Alok, Ryan and Hari) get into IIT and start thinking…
Economy and Governance
The World Bank has declared India as the 12th richest country in the world during the year 2005 based on its GDP numbers. According to the Times of India article…
BOOK REVIEW : Vandharghal Vendrargal
Title: Vandharghal Vendrargal (Tamizh) – They came they conqueredAuthor: MadhanPrice: 90 INRThis is one of the well written history books that I have read till now. Basically this book talks…
The ‘Manager’ mania
Some time back I wrote a blog titled ‘Ji Huzur to Whatsup dude?’ in which I wrote about various types of work cultures that is prevailing in India at the…
BOOK REVIEW : Savarkar and Hindutva
Title: Savarkar and HidhutvaAuthor: A.G.NooraniISBN: 8187496282This book is about one of the controversial leaders in Indian history, Vinayak Damodhar Savarkar who is popularly known as ‘Veer Savarkar’ and the ‘Hidhutva’…