Business

Why Linkedin India makes sense

By Aditya Mhatre at 22 December, 2009, 2:49 am

Its been a week since LinkedIn announced opening an office in Mumbai. While several blogs and sites carried the news about the announcement itself, I am yet to come across an opinion piece on it. So rather than waiting for one, I’m going to give it a shot myself. Lets see if I make any [...]

Of the Nano, Pollution and Traffic

By Adwait at 4 December, 2009, 8:48 pm

The Tata Nano, was big; it was big in India even before it rolled out onto the country’s roads. First it created an uproar in Singur, with its manufacturing plant, and then it quietly, well not actually quitely but conveniently was given refuge by Narendra Modi and the Tata Nano was proudly made in Gujarat.

Bharti MTN deals falls apart

By abhishek at 30 September, 2009, 2:32 pm

Bite more than you can chew and then chew it; Plan more than you can and then do it. All along, that seemed to be the story of the $24 billion proposed merger of Bharti and MTN or so we thought. Two days ago, a headline on the front page of Business Standard read – ‘Bharti MTN deal ready to be signed.’ Today, MTN’s decision to pull out only proves that either the media is irresponsible and suffers from premature ejaculation or business deals as big as these are as mercurial as the Indian monsoons. In this case, a bit of both is correct.

Manmohan singh invites Nandan Nilekani to head the National ID Project

By Aditya Mhatre at 23 June, 2009, 1:42 am

As promised, the UPA governement is going ahead with the National identity card project and are trying to the get the most influential mind to work on it. The project intends to provide each Indian with a National Identity card and replace the various kind of identiy cards that are currently being used [...]

Monetary Economy: An imperfect model III – Socialism

By Akhilesh at 31 May, 2009, 3:03 am

Socialism though thought by many intellectuals to be an alternative to Capitalism and a more equitable form of governing an economy is not very different from Capitalism. According to me, in this case also we follow the fundamental of scarcity and ownership. The only difference lies that the ownership of resources is controlled by the [...]