Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist
Instituted by EducationWorld and sponsored by GlobalScholar, a Seattle-based education technology transnational, the annual awards acknowledged, rewarded and celebrated India’s top young achievers in four categories at a high-profile event in Mumbai
With Indian businessmen and society in general having acquired notorious reputation for bad manners and boorishness, it’s in the national interest that the tribe of image consultants multiplies
Belatedly there’s a flurry of activity within the councils of government, chambers of commerce and Indian academia about stimulating vocational education and training to infuse employ-ment oriented skill-sets into India’s gigantic 509 million strong labour force and 450 million children
Clambering aboard the Delhi-Lahore bus service and dodging belligerent border guards engaged in daily ceremonial stand-offs on the Attari-Wagah border, Yoginder Sikand slipped into potentially hostile territory to check out the charms of Pakistan’s showpiece historical city