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Left to right: Woody Brittain, yours truly and Jim Schiro outside Oberoi Grand, Calcutta A Movable Feast About this column: Ernest Hemingway wrote a memoir about his life as a struggling writer in Paris. The notebook containing the memoirs was published as a book by his wife after his death. The title “A Movable…
19. MACAULAY’S MINUTE ON EDUCATION, 2ND FEBRUARY, 1835 19. 1. LEGISLATIVE ACT NECESSARY TO CHANGE CURRENT PRACTICE? MACAULAY’S MINUTE As it seems to be the opinion of some of the gentlemen who compose the Committee of Public Instruction, that the course which they have hitherto pursued was strictly prescribed by the British Parliament in 1813,…
The leadership thing Roopen Roy The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible. It describes how Moses leads the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt to freedom in the promised land. The most dramatic scene, immortalized by Charlton Heston as Moses in the motion picture The Ten Commandments, is…
The bull’s eye in banking reforms By Roopen Roy Jan 20 2015 There is plenty of good news about the Indian economy. Inflation has moderated. The slide of the rupee against the dollar has been arrested. Oil prices have tumbled. The stock market is at an all-time high. GDP growth is slowly picking up. But amidst all…
Hydrogen society is no longer sci-fi By Roopen Roy Feb 03 2015 Japan is betting big time on hydrogen society. What is it? Simply put, it is a society where hydrogen becomes a driving force of clean and efficient energy. When hydrogen and oxygen are combined to react together, the chemical process produces water along with electric…
Remember the dot-com bubble that started during the late 1990s? Shareholders and investors around the world lost billions of dollars. Eyeballs could not be monetised at the pace that was forecast and brick-and-mortar companies did not crumble at the speed that dot-com pundits had predicted. The term “click-and-mortar” was coined instead. However, the penetration of…
Roopen Roy Three Harvard Business School (HBS) professors led by Srikant Datar have researched and written a new book aptly titled “Rethinking the MBA : Business Education at a Crossroads”. The three pundits have studied the leading US and European business schools and have identified the challenges. Mercifully, no Indian B-School came under their microscopes….
Last year, there were only 27 billionaires in India — a business magazine recently announced. This year, the number has almost doubled to 52. The magazine then went on to conclude rather dramatically that the country’s 100 richest people have a combined net worth of $276 billion, which was almost a quarter of the country’s…
The fallout of Fukushima By Roopen Roy Mar 22 2011 The recent earthquake and Tsunami in Japan have wreaked havoc. More than 19,000 people have died or are reported missing. The financial losses are estimated to be as high as $175 billion. The earthquake, which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, unleashed nightmares at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi…
The Eyes have It! Wash and wear garments were a novelty once. But the new revolution in innovation is in the ‘watch’ and ‘wear’ computing devices. Deloitte, the company I work for, has come out with a study on ‘wearables’. It contends that smart glasses, fitness bands and smart watches would sell about 10 million…