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TWe Indians are comparatively less aggressive in our attitude and risk averse. However the situation is changing fast and there are many young and successful entrepreneurs in India.
— Abhishek Humbad,
young entrepreneur
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DEBATE |
India’s growing middle class and its demand for food is the cause behind global food price rise, says the American President George W Bush. Do you agree?
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SPECIAL STORY |
Nurturing good habits: In 1991, I had heard a speech from one of India’s topmost management consultants on how the concept of KASH (Knowledge-Application-Skills-Habits) is applicable in management. In management and seminars, the emphasis generally is on application of knowledge and skills but since habits represent ingrained behaviour, in the context of KASH, one should use the expression, last but not the least ‘habits’. ...more
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q Outdoor opportunities: What could be better than flying high to get a high in life! The glamour attached to flying has always fascinated humans. While when we talk of flying, we can easily relate to airline pilots, flying is fun for paragliders, too!
Paragliding took birth in the Alps and soon drifted into the Himalayas. In 1991, with the help of two instructors from the UK, the department of tourism, India, sponsored training for six Indian pilots. Out of the six, three continued, and today there are a number of paragliding pilots.
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q World of the very small : Quantum mechanics is a comparatively new field that got prominence at the beginning of the 20th century. Some of the great minds who were in the vanguard were Pauli, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Planck & Born. It was Max Planck initially who postulated that everything is made up of little bits known as “quanta” (one quantam, two quanta). Matter had its quanta but also the forces that kept material objects together. Forces could only come in little steps at the time; there was no such a thing as infinitely small. ...more
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 ‘I don’t believe
in loan waivers’: Rural India is getting the attention it has not got for many years now. From the government to NGOs to media to even business, every section of the society has been moved by the tragic suicides of farmers due to poverty and indebtedness. The India Shining story won’t be complete as long as Rural India remains mired in hunger, everyone realises. But the approach to poverty alleviation differs. If the government is thinking of loan waivers and a slew...more |
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‘Needed, master
of all trades’: Passionate about success and ready to take on the world, Abhishek Humbad represents the face of young India. He is young but has already taken the plunge to fulfill his dreams. Based out of Mumbai, Humbad is currently a IIIrd year student of engineering in BITS-Pilani. He recently proved his leadership mettle by winning the second position in Tycoons 2008, an all-India hunt launched by Career Launcher India Ltd in association with Jaago India. Inspired by Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad, he decided to learn about money management and investments when he was in the first year of his engineering. For that he took Rs 25,000 from his dad with a condition to return the amount after a year. Humbad not only returned the amount but made profits as well. Thereafter he founded the Wall Street Club, the investment club at BITS-Pilani, the first of its kind in India. It has managed excellent returns of 33 per cent and 37 per cent in two semesters of operation. Humbad also runs his own company NextGen PMS Pvt Ltd, which is an energy and environment consultancy company. The young entrepreneur speaks to Educare about his achievements: ...more
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‘Stenography,
not journalism’: Good journalism or decent journalism has always been judged according to how relevant it is to great processes of the time. If we are going to apply this criteria, how relevant are we to our times,” wondered P Sainath, India’s leading development journalist, who, through his articles, has brought to the fore the rural crisis and the plight of the poor. He was delivering the keynote address at Rajendra Mathur Memorial Lecture in New Delhi on April 17, organised by the Editors’ Guild of India. ...more |
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