Women and Future of World Economics!

Last updated on: April 16, 2006 at 2:44 pm By Desh Kapoor

Tom Peters has been warning the companies and the marketers about this phenomenon for quite a long time now.... something that this Economist article brings out! Soon the strategies change in favor of women the better it will be for the corporate world! In 1950 only one-third of American women of working age had a paid job. Today two-thirds do, and women make up almost half of America's workforce (see chart 1). Since 1950 men's employment rate has slid by 12 percentage points, to 77%. In fact, almost everywhere more women are employed and the percentage of men with jobs has fallen—although in some countries the feminisation of the workplace still has far to go: in Italy and Japan, women's share of jobs is still 40% or less. Read more

Indian Laughter Challenge Episode

Last updated on: April 16, 2006 at 7:46 am By Desh Kapoor

Here is a clip of one performance of Sunil Pal on the famous comedy TV program in India hosted by Shekhar Suman and Navjot Singh.. it is hillarious!! View this clip on Vimeo Read more

Will Bush Attack Iran?

Last updated on: April 15, 2006 at 10:22 pm By Desh Kapoor

Here is an article by Seymour Hersh - one of my favorite US political-military expert on the obsession of Bush with Iran and its Nukes. This has already become a controversial piece where the Government is denying this! The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium. Read more

Religion

Last updated on: April 15, 2006 at 10:16 pm By Desh Kapoor

Percentage of women (from among more than 780,000) in Catholic religious orders around the world who come from Europe? Read more

Health

Last updated on: April 15, 2006 at 10:11 pm By Desh Kapoor

Percentage of women who chose a thin waist over high IQ in a survey by ediets.com? Read more

Markets

Last updated on: April 15, 2006 at 10:07 pm By Desh Kapoor

Percentages of the biggest Influences on the purchases by consumers in the US. Read more

India needs $550 bn in 5 yrs: Investment panel

Last updated on: April 15, 2006 at 6:50 am By Desh Kapoor

I know things arent hunkry-dory.. at least someone is thinking about this! The high-profile Investment Commission, headed by Ratan Tata, has said that India needs to attract investments of up to $550 billion in the next five years if it wants to become an economic powerhouse. Tata had presented the report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month. The prime minister has now asked nine central ministries, including petroleum, power, civil aviation, telecommunications, textiles, tourism and food processing, for inputs within a month on what they intend to do about this. Read more

Indian Education's Early Unbreakable Tethers

Last updated on: April 15, 2006 at 6:02 am By Desh Kapoor

Some time back I had interviewed with this major Indian tech firm and had three interviews on phone and one face-to-face. One thing was very odd - in every interview I was asked a stock question: "Where did you do your undergrad degree from?". To me that was strange because the position I was interviewing was a senior management one. For non-Indians this is a totally unheard-of practice - but as an Indian you can understand where they were coming from. In India there is a hierarchy of institutions that people obsess to get admitted into and one's intelligence or lack thereof is pegged to that one achievement. Thereafter, one just lives up to that one act of life! This company actually had a complex system of grading their candidates where the various schools one had gone through in life added up to a certain salary. So what and where I did my undergrad in and from actually factors into my salary when i join them 15-20 years after my degree!! Read more

Technology

Last updated on: April 15, 2006 at 5:55 am By Desh Kapoor

The Epson Company begins in 1961 as a subsidiary of the Seiko watch company providing parts for Seiko watches. The company is awarded a contract to make precision timers for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as well as work to build a printer. Epson's EP-101, released in 1968, is one of the first printers for electronic calculators. Epson's first dot matrix printer, the TX-80, is introduced in 1978. Read more

Matter

Last updated on: April 15, 2006 at 5:52 am By Desh Kapoor

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Read more