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Leadership: India Inc's biggest challenge

Jasjeet Singh Courtesy : rediff.com June 05, 2008 India has a people and leadership crisis despite its huge population. Corporates whine that the Indian education system does not produce 'employable human resources.' Engineers need to be re-skilled before they can write software and face clients confidently. Graduates need extensive training before they can turn call specialists, sales staff or store managers. B-school graduates go through companies as management trainees to become functional managers. . . In the midst of a high growth era, where Indian companies have been consumed by the challenge of base level hiring, have enough and competent leaders been groomed? Most Indian companies, I suspect, have been woefully myopic on that count. Thus, one sees expatriates being hired at astronomical salaries or 'the good line manager' from a well-regarded breeding ground bagging a leadership position. Neither of the two approaches can yield results. The expatriate is hamstr

Stand up for the Indian soldier

Harsh V Pant June 06, 2008 Courtesy: Rediff.com It is with a sense of disbelief that one hears the Indian minister of state for defence, sitting in his cozy air-conditioned seminar room, pontificating that 'it is unbecoming' of former soldiers to protest against the treatment meted out to them by the government. So here's a non-soldier making a public protest. One hopes that it is not below the dignity of the minister to read this. The minister would not have dared to make such a comment had the protestors been a part of his or his party's vote bank. The fact that the Indian armed services do not go public with their grievances does not mean that they do not have any concerns and the fact that they have been forced to come to the streets should make the minister and his government acknowledge how desperate the situation might be. The Indian government is fooling itself if it thinks that by dragging its feet on the issue of the armed forces dissatisfaction with the rec

His Holiness inaugurates World Conference on Terrorism in New Delhi

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Phayul [Monday, June 02, 2008 10:38] By Tenzin Sangmo At the Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi. (Photo by Tenzin Sangmo/Phayul.com) New Delhi, June 2 - The Dalai Lama on Sunday inaugurated the Terrorism-National and International World Conference at the Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi. Organized by the Jama Masjid United Forum, the conference projected intense deliberation on the root causes of terrorism, its new characteristics and emerging trends. Addressing a gathering that saw eminent personalities like the Union Minister, Government of India Kapil Sibal, MP and Gen Secretary of the Samajwadi Party Amar Singh, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Assam Tarun K. Gogoi, President of the Jama Masjid United Forum Syed Yahya Bukhari among other dignitaries from Indonesia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Maldives, Jordan, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan the Dalai Lama condemned the act of terrorism stating that is was unfair to generalize the transgression of some Muslims and associate it with Islam as a re