Jhumpa Lahiri  was born Nilanjana Sudeshna. She made her literary debut with a collection of short stories called Interpreter of Maladies that got her a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. The Namesake was a novel released in 2003 that captured the immigrant experience and in some sense branded Jhumpa […]

To achieve Six Sigma, a process must not produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. That’s how precise the dabbawallas are. The dabbawallas of Mumbai will pick up the lunchbox or “dabba” from the homes and deliver it to the client’s office desk, then again in the late afternoon; […]

Director Shoojit Sircar moved into the spotlight after the success of Vicky Donor – a film that turned John Abraham into a producer. Madras Café has Shoojit Sircar as the director and John Abraham as the producer-narrator-protagonist.The movie is an “espionage thriller” according to the director. The setting is Sri […]

Today seems like a particularly appropriate day to review Ravi Venkatesan’s recent book “Conquering the Chaos”.  It has been sixty six years since we got our independence. Yet when most global companies look at India, all that they see is the chaos, the crumbling political system, the corruption, the poor […]

Devdutt Pattanaik’s website devdutt.com introduces him as an author, speaker, illustrator and mythologist. He also holds a unique designation that is a surefire conversation starter. He is the Chief Belief Officer of the Future Group. His function is to “startle people and make them see the critical role of belief in […]