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29 Nov 2009
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| Remember Saurabh Kaalia |
Remember Saurabh Kaalia
 Aneeta Chakrabarty
The six soldiers plodded through treacherous terrain and biting cold, their eyes scanning the bleak landscape for intruders. The blinding snow and fierce winds thwarted their earlier attempts but today the weather cooperated and they were trying very hard to reach their goal, the strategically important Bajrang Post. After a hard trek through the white, eerie and somber landscape, they were almost within reach of this vital post, when all of sudden, they ran into ...
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| Spirituality and New Paradigm for Management |
Spirituality and New Paradigm for Management
Sharda Nandram
With the all too apparent changes in the climate and onset of economic and ecological disasters that are directly and indirectly related to business, can we truly say that any aspect of the current corporate model is truly healthy or sustainable? The current ethical (economic and ecological) meltdown demonstrates that the mainstream management models are neither healthy nor sustainable and even more so, are part of the cause rather than the solution to this crisis. On another lev...
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| Editorial: Making Mountain of a Mole Hill |
Editorial: Making Mountain of a Mole Hill
The Editorial Team
The commissions of inquiry appointed by various governments in the country have, in the past, only proved to be a wastage of time, money and energy. Their reports have hardly served any useful purpose, except that they gather dust in the offices. This has been proved once more - and more decisively - in the case of the latest report of Liberahan Commission whose report was laid on the table of Parliament last week. In 17 long years, the longest for any commission of inquiry, after spending tens of crores of the peoples' hard earned money, it is now clear the Commission was ...
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| Liberties Liberhan Took | Liberties Liberhan Took
 Chandan Mitra
Remember Gulzari Lal Nanda? Although he was Prime Minister twice, I can bet only the 60-plus generation of informed citizens and quiz show participants will recall the name, fame or lack of it. GL Nanda last hit the news pages about 20 years ago when he was unceremoniously thrown out bag and baggage from a flat in Delhi's Defence Colony for non-payment of rent. The elderly Gandhian leader died shortly thereafter in near-penury after leading a long ascetic life. The ramrod straight Congress leader of yesteryear used to wash his own clothes and cook his own meals till he was too o...
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| Hubris of Darul Uloom | Hubris of Darul Uloom
 Ram Kumar Ohri
Darul Uloom has done it again. By issuing a Fatwa, loaded with fundamentalist frenzy, the seminary has reiterated its earlier stand that singing of the national song, Vande Matram, by Muslims is ‘haram'. Obviously the Deoband Ulema have openly expressed utter contempt for the majesty of India's Constitution and delivered a body blow to the ideal of national integration. The timing of the ‘fatwa' has surprised everyone, especially when the stand of the Ulema had been known now for several years. Apparently the provocation for spewing hatred against ...
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