Peaks & valleys

It was a reign full of peaks & valleys for Semel (only the last few years saw more of the latter!), who had earlier had a successful 24-year-old stint with Warner Brothers, where he served as Chairman & Co- CEO. Semel was mocked and laughed at when he joined Yahoo! for being a technological neophyte but he soon shut several mouths as he streamlined the management structure, made savoir-faire deals & acquisitions, improved the company’s image, earnings & stock price and made an alliance with SBC Communications (presently AT&T) to provide content and services, which proved rewarding.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

'The Indian paints'

'The Indian paints’ sector attracted total FDI of a whopping $2.1 billion (8.04% of total FDI inflow in the country) during FY 2006-07; an enormous 115 % growth over the previous year. Bharukha too sounds upbeat as he clarifies, “We want to strengthen our leadership in industrial & automotive coatings by offering world-class technology, superior coating systems built on innovation, and superior products... we are also investing in brand building to strengthen our positioning in architectural coatings.”

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An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

India too have ambitious

Yes, China and India too have ambitious people who dream of building their companies and are getting the chance. But neither China nor India comes close to the US in terms of this “killer app,” and it will take years of venture capital flowing in before the Chinese finally let go off their rote approach to work and embrace innovation. China has other challenges as well. Aside from its risky social experiment, it has an economy in which less than a quarter of its people truly participate. Its one-child policy is exacerbating the problem of its rapidly aging population. India, meanwhile, will only continue to struggle with its vast number of have-nots and its corruption problems.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Defence: India

A spiteful brief...
...of the current state of India’s defence...and offence!
“The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din of its loud life, hints and echoes from the life behind steal in,” as John Greenleaf Whittier said. We started a similar journey back in the history of India to witness how often it has been invaded, humiliated, subjugated and above all, divided. It’s been sixty years to a paradoxical Independence and division, the scars of which have not yet been healed by the fl owing tide of time. As destiny would have it, yesterday’s siblings are today the biggest adversaries, one almost desperate to destroy its elder brother whose existence is the very anti-thesis of its own identity; while the elder brother has been a little more considerate, but oft en has been left with no option than to teach the recalcitrant sibling a lesson or two.

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An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative


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River Bagawali

We started browsing the nearby surroundings and river Bagawali was our first target. And when we saw the empty river bed, our astonishment was flared to newer heights! A whole river gone missing? (Phew!) As a local farmer said, “The last time the river had a flow was way back in 1990s!” Wells nearby have also dried-up and we could even hear the owls (at nightfall) and see pigeons (during the day). It has also tried to compensate the loss by sponsoring rainwater harvesting projects. Around 120 recharge shaft s and 200 hand pumps have been sponsored by the company. But stripping Kala Dera of a river and leaving it in a state of acute water shortage will overshadow the compensations, however big it may be!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

"Obsolete technology

He further added, “We have obsolete technology & the compliance level is very low, inevitably leading to environmental destruction.” More surprising was the fact that, asbestos mining (highly hazardous) is still being continued despite Supreme Court’s ban. According to data given by Mines and Geology Department, 1,570 tonnes were mined during 2005-06 alone. A senior official in the Mines department spoke to us on condition of anonymity, “Asbestos is a by-product of soapstone mining, thus we need to ban soapstone mining also. On the whole, the number of illegal mines across the different minor minerals has gone down but it still exists to a large extent.” Well, this is indeed the real story behind procuring the beautiful marble slabs which beautify our floors... but all at the precious cost of nature!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Sheryl’s global warning tour

For her Stop Global Warming College Tour, Sheryl Crow has packed up her guitar and hopped aboard a bio-diesel bus, and intends to spread the word by driving into 11 college campuses. Back home, she even ‘practices what she preaches’ and does everything by the book, right from having solar panels fitted in her house, to doing her laundry in cold water, driving a hybrid, turning off the lights when not in use, to even joking about using one square of toilet paper and having a bath only once a week! Now that’s what we call a Wildflower!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

PETA's Been on the scene

D: According to you, how have things changed since PETA’s been on the scene?

P: Twenty-five years ago, when you talked about animal rights, people didn’t know what you were talking about, but with the help of PETA, people have been exposed to more information over the years and have learned what the issues are about and just how cruel we as a species are to our fellow inhabitants of Earth. When I first heard of PETA, the idea that it would be called People for Ethical Treatment of Animals appealed to me because it was elegant and gentle and conveyed that we simply needed to treat them ethically. I think the idea has grown from that platform, and now it’s a huge voice for animal awareness.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Celebrities wearing fur

What do you feel about celebrities wearing fur?
It’s terrible when stars like J Lo and Beyoncé wear fur – I worry that their young fans will see them and not think about the cruelty that goes into every fur coat or piece of fur trim. Fortunately, thanks to groups like PETA, more and more people are thinking about these issues. Most of us now know that animals killed for fur suffer horribly – they are skinned alive, clubbed to death, crushed in steel-jaw traps, and genitally electrocuted, sometimes just for a little trim on a coat collar. In China, even cats and dogs are routinely bludgeoned, hanged, or strangled with wire nooses, so that their fur can be turned into trim and trinkets. These days, with so many choices available to us, there’s just no excuse for wearing real fur. If you don’t wear fur, please talk to others, so they’ll know why you made your compassionate decision. We all have to do our part to put this cruel industry out of business.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

No wrongs, Just Wright!

A fearless conservationist, Belinda talks to TSI about the threats and challenges that imperil India’s forests and its denizens

1. How easy was it for Belinda Wright to fit in with respect to Indian wildlife, both as her role as a wildlife filmmaker and photographer as well as a conservationist?
I was born in India in 1950s and our country’s wildlife has been my only profession and abiding interest, all my life. I spent much of my childhood in the jungles of Eastern India. When I started my career as a wildlife photographer, the only problem I had was actually getting to such remote areas. Everybody was always welcoming and very helpful, and it certainly helped that my mother, Anne Wright, was such a well-known wildlife conservationist. She was a member of the Government of India’s Indian Board for Wildlife for nineteen years and on the six-member committee that was set up by the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to identify the first nine Tiger Reserves and establish Project Tiger.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

It's water everywhere!

With temperatures surging, what seems to be most inconsequential now, portends the maximum threat in the coming decades – the melting of the Arctic ice! Especially the Himalayas, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Southern Andes and Mount Kilimanjaro have shown notable demise of the ice-caps, thus resulting in the increase in the sea level which anyway has risen over 400 feet since the last ice-age! Leading to submergence of the coastal areas, perhaps regions what we know as Kolkata, Netherlands, Beijing, and parts of USA, would assume similar identities in the near future – water bodies!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative