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Let’s watch a Broadway show called “Times Square circus and crime.” Act 1. Overflowing with digital billboards and neon lights, New York’s Times Square at night looks like Las Vegas, the vibrant US gambling city. An amphitheatre seating gallery has been built under the famous Coca Cola advertisement landmark where people sit only to watch other people, illumination, billboards and street entertainment events. In 12 degree Celsius temperature, a very handsome, muscular playboy in just a v-shaped underwear and cowboy hat is creating showbiz, singing with a guitar. With “naked cowboy” written on his backside, he’s got women of all age groups joyfully flocking to him. He reaches out to the wo...
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Jaygopal Raghavan
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Excellent but we can apply the same principles here as society and moral values are different. Each culture is unique by itself and one must do whatever possible within that to give democracy its true meaning.
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Pradeep Saran
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Very nice narration which is possible in a true democracy. In a country ruled by pseudo-secularists who protect fundamentalist minorities and term patriotic nationalists as terrorists one cannot expect something similar to that described.
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About 2.5 billion people in the world have no access to safe sanitation, and half of South Asia suffers the indignity of open defecation. This lack of hygienic facilities is a fundamental cause of disease leading to 1.5 million children dying every year as per UN figures. You can read, download and share the complete article here: http://shiningconsulting.com/wp/2009/chinks-in-hygiene-and-civic-responsibility/ Can India’s 2020 promise to become a developed country free from poverty be fulfilled without improving our hygiene and civic responsibility? Hygiene: Landing in Amritsar international airport a month ago I felt really proud that India’s B class towns are becoming so advanced. H...
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SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE
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Very keen observation & deep study, Ms. Chitra. Thanks for sharing it on Toostep. & Thanks for referral.
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Jaygopal Raghavan
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Well said ! Until each one of us realise that hygiene starts with ourselves, our country can never be clean. And until parents teach this frist to their kids at home they will never go on to be responsible citizens.
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Looking the same is a major crisis, especially when people have money. The first response is to differentiate in lifestyle. For industry, differentiation in deliverables is essential to increase net worth. The culprit in making all the world’s bricks look alike is digital technology. That’s when a sense of aesthetics can make a difference. Indian women have had an inherent, exceptional sense of beauty from time immemorial. Their ornamentation is the most spectacular, from the nose ring, bindi, alta, mehendi on the feet and hands, anklets, finger rings with chains ending in bracelets, bangles matching every dress, ear rings that reach up to accentuate hairstyles and jewellery on the hips. ...
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Ravindra Sharma
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Modern structures coming up as airports, malls, commercial structures etc. are all a case to point on "Harmony and Aesthetics" that can leave one wonder struck on how innovative we are with knowing ourselves. In fact town-planning skills at work...
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chitra bannerjee
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:-) Thanks Rathin, Virag and Sairam
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Looking the same is a major crisis, especially when people have money. The first response is to differentiate in lifestyle. For industry, differentiation in deliverables is essential to increase net worth. The culprit in making all the world’s bricks look alike is digital technology. That’s when a sense of aesthetics can make a difference. Indian women have had an inherent, exceptional sense of beauty from time immemorial. Their ornamentation is the most spectacular, from the nose ring, bindi, alta, mehendi on the feet and hands, anklets, finger rings with chains ending in bracelets, bangles matching every dress, ear rings that reach up to accentuate hairstyles and jewellery on the hips. ...
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Ravindra Sharma
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Modern structures coming up as airports, malls, commercial structures etc. are all a case to point on "Harmony and Aesthetics" that can leave one wonder struck on how innovative we are with knowing ourselves. In fact town-planning skills at work...
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chitra bannerjee
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:-) Thanks Rathin, Virag and Sairam
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After finishing a daylong corporate meeting in Chennai, I went to Marina beach to breathe the cool evening breeze. Suddenly, a huge Audi stopped. The driver emerged, next a khaki-unformed policeman-type man, then the 60-year-old owner wearing a lungi folded in half, followed by his big family tumbling out to the beach. In the West, the Audi is bought for the intangible of personal pleasure, to experience its power, technology finesse and craftsmanship skill. In India rich people buy the Audi, but a chauffeur drives it, proving that high status symbol is enjoyed even as intangibles escape them. Conflict arises here because lifestyles are moving towards aspiration and quality. Aspiration and ...
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Venkatraman
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The problem in India is that we want to show off our financial success in every way possible-Consider this, the rising costs in every walk of life should have made us more wiser in the ways we spend our money.The question is whether buying an Audi...
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chitra bannerjee
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Thank you Mathew, Rathin and Muralidharan Sir. It is a pleasure interacting with you all. Your knowledge, experience is so vast and precise. I enjoy the comments that you share. It only helps me widening my understanding. Many thanks :-)
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After finishing a daylong corporate meeting in Chennai, I went to Marina beach to breathe the cool evening breeze. Suddenly, a huge Audi stopped. The driver emerged, next a khaki-unformed policeman-type man, then the 60-year-old owner wearing a lungi folded in half, followed by his big family tumbling out to the beach. In the West, the Audi is bought for the intangible of personal pleasure, to experience its power, technology finesse and craftsmanship skill. In India rich people buy the Audi, but a chauffeur drives it, proving that high status symbol is enjoyed even as intangibles escape them. Conflict arises here because lifestyles are moving towards aspiration and quality. Aspiration and ...
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Venkatraman
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The problem in India is that we want to show off our financial success in every way possible-Consider this, the rising costs in every walk of life should have made us more wiser in the ways we spend our money.The question is whether buying an Audi...
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chitra bannerjee
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Thank you Mathew, Rathin and Muralidharan Sir. It is a pleasure interacting with you all. Your knowledge, experience is so vast and precise. I enjoy the comments that you share. It only helps me widening my understanding. Many thanks :-)
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Europeans often ask me about the female foeticide tragedy in India; but I’ve always considered it Western exaggeration from an incidental case or two. Until I read about Revathy (21), an autodriver’s wife in Tamil Nadu, whose prematurely born twin girls were put on incubators last month. Within 2 weeks Revathy slit one baby’s throat while her mother, Thennila (45), strangled the other. They confessed they could not bear the heavy expenditure of medical treatment today and dowry tomorrow. This horrible socio-cultural practice in ‘Incredible India,’ the world’s biggest hub for IT services, kills 750,000 girls every year as per UN figures. Shockingly, gender detection technology innovations li...
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sheriff r mohideen
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sad but true scene
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chitra bannerjee
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@Muralidharan: Sir very interesting insight you have provided and it is heartwarming to know that someone is out there doing all the legwork from RTI to tracing and finding about the welfare of the parents and children. Best wishes to you. @Rathin...
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The shopper’s mind and eye are always in a Yes/No mental wrestle. Have I made the right choice? Is the price right? Have I seen enough variety? Was my bargaining satisfactory? Is there something here that legitimately substitutes my bargaining temperament? Did I make a clever purchase? For organized retail business to be viable, you need to enlarge the shopper’s eyeball space. Three types of competitors are trying to distract her: unorganized hawkers on the road or visiting homes, unorganized local traditional retails with no price consistency and small modern independent stores. Organized modern retail business still has just 5% share of India’s Rs 22,50,000 crores retail size. Speculating...
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Jaygopal Raghavan
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I agree with your article that retail in india leaves a lot to be desired but a spare a moment for the retailers. First point to reckon with is the artificially high infrastructure costs - one of the reasons why we have very few decent malls in...
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chitra bannerjee
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Thank you Rathin, Mathew, Muhammed and Sairam for your comments @Mathew, I agree with you. Look at a store like IKEA with such fantastic products, cost effective, high volume and perfect inventory. We have some years to catch up with them. It is...
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For men, a woman is an essential object of lust. Women engage in sex without love to overcome monotony, out of monetary greed or the poor ones, for livelihood purposes. But it is sustaining emotion that every human being is in search of. I’ve understood from early on in my 30-year consulting profession that to excel in delivering sustaining emotion I have to master anthropology, psychology and sociology. Living in France I did that from highly recognised French professionals. This helped me bring sustaining emotion for products and services from end-customers of different industries in the world. In professional research I interact with numerous kinds of people, more women than men as they ...
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SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE
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Very brave article & salute to you Chitra, for posting it on Toostep.
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Santosh Kumar Mohanty
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Peoples spent more time in sex or sex thoughts than any other thing. Emotional attachments reach high with physical relation. The natural things are sometimes used for livelihood or business damages the value of society and the relationship.
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by Shombit Sengupta Driving $60 billion of the arguable $800+ billion global IT business, India with 2 million IT professionals has certainly flourished in the demand-led market with good management offering low cost as prime benefit, and the ability to handle large-scale operations. High technical skill-set is the frame that carries the business, but without soft skills the delivery remains a skeleton with no flesh. Tomorrow’s route to acquire better brand value and retrieve better bottomline is anchoring soft skills at the core. Tech Savvy engineers ! Behave according to different cultures Tech-savvy engineers travel the world delivering IT services, but fa...
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Rathin Deb
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A very nice article with all practical details. A soft skill is attraction and retention combined with technical skill one will make a killing. This applies to all business particularly exports. I think though no formal training is parted...
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Isaac Madhavan
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On re-reading the article, I find that there is an error in the author's assumption that Indian organizations are perceived as "order takers" [sic]. Many Indian organizations are into quite a few exciting projects in which they have wrought...
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