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Politicization Of The Women’s Reservation Bill: Do we really need it?

by Viral Dholakia on March 8, 2010

Backdrop: For the long pending Women’s Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33% seats in the state legislature and in Parliament for women, the Rajya Sabha is due to vote today for enacting a law reserving a third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislators for women. Earlier the Union Cabinet had formally [...]

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Abdul Kalam, Ratan Tata most trusted Indians – Politicians Least !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Abdul Kalam and Ratan Tata were the most trusted Indians in a survey carried out by Readers Digest. Expectedly, most Politicians came under the least trusted category !

3 comments March 3, 2010 Continue Reading →

India’s Young Population: Its biggest asset !

by Arun Prabhudesai

The Young and working population of India is the biggest positive factor for India and its growth in coming years – We have written about it many times earlier on this blog, and another survey reiterates this fact again with some Interesting numbers !

Just to show you the amount of difference between other developing Countries [...]

5 comments March 2, 2010 Continue Reading →

India will put man in space by 2016 – Will be 4th country to do so !

by Arun Prabhudesai

After India successfully completed the unmanned Lunar Mission with Chandrayaana last year, ISRO chief has now announced that India will send a manned mission in space in next 6 years (by 2016). If at all India does it successfully it will only be the 4th country to do so since [...]

7 comments January 27, 2010 Continue Reading →

Sixth Sense For Real and Open Source Too

by Arun Prabhudesai

If Hollywood Sci-Fi movies make you jump from you seats and be in awe of the hero using gizmos that are seemily out of this world, here is something that is as good as the mind blowing technology that you see on screen but this time it is for real.

Remember the movie Minority Report where [...]

1 comment November 11, 2009 Continue Reading →

Puneites are least satisfied employees -75% feel stress at work is healthy

by Arun Prabhudesai

I dont understand this – Stress and Healthy are oxymoronic words in my dictionary – How can stress be healthy? be it at work or home or anywhere else. But that exactly what Pune and Bangalore Employees feel, infact nearly 75% of all feel the same – This is according to [...]

0 comments September 21, 2009 Continue Reading →

Interesting insights about Affluent Indians

by Arun Prabhudesai

In first-of-a-kind survey launched by Nielsen, some very Interesting statistics have been revealed about certain Lifestyle habits of affluent Indians. The Nielsen Upper Middle and Rich (UMAR) survey looks at Rich Indian’s Media consumption habits, their gym memberships, shopping habits frequency of spends, and consumption of various FMCG categories. Who [...]

8 comments September 4, 2009 Continue Reading →

What you may not know about Ganesh Festival: An appeal !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Ganesh Festival is really a time for festivities; it slowly starts to get Indian people into festive season mood that spans till end of Diwali. If you live in cities like Pune and Mumbai, you will know the kind of celebration that happens for 10 straight days. The streets are overflowing with people to see the beautifully decorated Ganesh Idols. The roads are closed at night, loud music and expansive lighting greets you everywhere.

20 comments August 17, 2009 Continue Reading →

The Indian Women CEO have arrived and how?

by Arun Prabhudesai

Yes, The Era of Women CEO has arrived and from the looks of it, it is here to stay. Now, women have been there and done that at the positions that matter for quite sometime. But the last decade or so has seen a drastic change when it comes to the participation of Women at [...]

9 comments July 13, 2009 Continue Reading →

Bloggers do not trash your company, either you already are trash or you are doing it yourself!

by Arun Prabhudesai

I read this really disturbing news. Companies are employing agencies to clean-up negative feedback online. Their target is “crazy blogs”. The definition of crazy is at best undefined. Who will be defining crazy? If I narrate my experiences about some product or service which I bought or experienced and if that helps someone to make a better decision, what’s wrong with that.

This is a direct stab at our democracy and freedom of speech. India is more becoming like China. A police state. Through official and sometimes not so official channels, India slowly but surely is becoming a police state. Yesterday was the ban on smoking in public places where the definition of public place is debatable.

Now this is underground Internet Mafia Style Company !

Companies who are offering these services are eBrandz, Communicate2, Value Pitch, and Id8lab.

Their main targets are the websites like mouthshut, complaintboard and customercomplaint.

11 comments October 5, 2008 Continue Reading →

Two Indians raking big moolah as per Forbes top-paid young CEOs list

by Arun Prabhudesai

Forbes recently released the top-paid young CEOs list that features two Indians (or should I say Indian origin) – Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen and Cognizant’s Francisco D’Souza.

The list that features 15 top-paid young CEOs ranks Narayen at 5th and D’Souza at the 15th position. In terms of age, D’Souza is the youngest of the 15 CEOs at 39.

The top spot is taken by Pakistiani origin Nabeel Gareeb, who is the CEO of chip-maker MEMC Electronic Materials (Interestingly, Gareeb in hindi means Poor – what a Oxymoron :). He takes home annual pay package of 79.6 million dollars (roughly 315 crore rupees) !

0 comments August 17, 2008 Continue Reading →

1.2 billion people – 1 Gold Medal – and we rejoice like we have topped the Olympic Medal Chart !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Since the news of Abhinav Bindra winning a Gold Medal at Beijing Olympics has arrived, every news media – from TV to news papers to blogs have been in utter jubilation .

Taking nothing away from Abhinav Bindra, he has achieved something that no other Indian can boast of – an individual Gold Medal at Olympics – but as a nation of 1.2 billion people should be so very happy for winning 1 Gold Medal ?

In last Olympics when we won a Silver, everyone concluded that it was a successful Olympic campaign ! give me a break. Are we satisfied with so little?

Just to put things in perspective – Countries with a fraction of a size of India and much poorer (Kenya, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia etc. etc..) manage to win many medals in every outing of Olympics and we are happy winning one medal – Infact, it is a reason for country’s jubilation !

13 comments August 11, 2008 Continue Reading →

Trak.in Poll Verdict: Indians prefer female bosses, only just

by Arun Prabhudesai

I had written about ASSOCHAM survey couple of weeks back which concluded that more than 68% men and women prefer male bosses at their work. I did not really agree with this survey and decided to carry out my own small survey on Trak.in. There are about 202 trak.in readers who have participated (till this point) in the survey and it reflects exactly what I feel.

Male-female-boss-preference-poll

Out of 202 poll voters, 42% prefer female bosses at workplace, 37% prefer male and 21% said they have no preference.

3 comments May 28, 2008 Continue Reading →

Surprise, Surprise, Indian citizens are most environment friendly!

by Arun Prabhudesai

We hear so very often our western counterparts blaming India and China for global warming and being one of the most polluted countries in the world. While that may or may not be a fact, a survey conducted by National Geographic says that Indians and Brazilians have the most environmentally friendly lifestyles based impact of individual consumer behavior.

The National Geographic Society today unveiled "Greendex 2008: Consumer Choice and the Environment—A Worldwide Tracking Survey" which brings this fact to the light.

What this survey did was rather than measuring each nation’s environmental impact, it compares the behaviors of individuals in four key areas: housing, transportation, food, and consumer goods.

4 comments May 8, 2008 Continue Reading →

South Indians are the leading Beer guzzlers!

by Arun Prabhudesai

During my visit to Chennai this January for Proto.in, I was really surprised to know that Chennai does not have restaurants that serve Beer or alcoholic drinks. Not only that, it does not have any pubs or Disco’s. If you want to go out and enjoy a couple of drinks, the only place would be 4 or 5 start hotels. Now thats a real dampener for person like me who really enjoys going out and having evening drinks with friends.

Indian Beer Bottles

However, it seems that outside of Chennai, South Indians seems to have a huge appetite for Beer. According to the latest figures released the growth was mainly led by the key guzzlers down south, with the largest market Andhra Pradesh vaulting 15.4%, Tamil Nadu 11.6% and Karnataka 24%. Another big market, Maharashtra, however, witnessed sedate growth of 5-6%, with Mumbai city recording a minor dip.

5 comments April 28, 2008 Continue Reading →

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