Slowdown fast-tracks move from doing well to doing good

Monday 13 April '09

At 48, Arun Ramu seemed to have it all. As head of product engineering and testing, he led the fastest-growing business unit at Infosys Technologies.

The city’s moment?

Tuesday 7 April '09

Post-delimitation, the urban voters’ new power

Recession clouds the Great Indian Dream of US degree

Monday 2 March '09

Universities are hardselling courses but there are few takers amid worries about job market and repaying student loans.

Reverse gear: back to India from US, and happy

Monday 2 March '09

Venkat and Usha Mangudi are the archetypal American returnees.

This man loves Valentine’s Day - and Ram Sene

Saturday 14 February '09

With a motley group of curmudgeons including the Sri Ram Sene in Bangalore threatening to wreck this weekend’s Valentine’s Day...

In the era of Ram Sene, young are bewildered

Friday 13 February '09

An outfit called the Sri Ram Sene first pulled the caveman act on young women in a pub in Mangalore dragging them by the hair, slapping and pushing them around.

In slowdown time, techies dust off CVs for Rahul’s talent hunt

Sunday 18 January '09

Poovaiah Mandanna and Charles Arvind are typical Bangalore residents. Mandanna, 23, and Arvind, 25, work for the offshore unit of computer maker Dell Inc...

Ripples in outsourcing country

Saturday 10 January '09

Indian outsourcing companies have long been the darling of employees, investors and even the customers they serve around the world...

Red tape makes this R&D firm look to US

Sunday 28 December '08

A Bangalore company called Gangagen, named after India’s greatest river, is one of only a dozen around the world...

Starting up troubles

Friday 26 December '08

Rakesh Balaji is 28 and has a seven-year track record as a chip design engineer.

The blow to business

Friday 12 December '08

A couple of weeks ago I was interviewing Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of Infosys Technologies, for a foreign business magazine. He told me that India’s middle class’ favourite game is Blame the Politician.

Hiring consultant now firing his own staff as slowdown hits BPO boomtown

Friday 21 November '08

In the heydays of his business, placement consultant Pravin V Shastri used to send out 60 resumes daily to his customers, large Indian outsourcing firms as well as multinationals with outsourced operations in India.

Meltdown impact: 'It was over in five minutes'

Thursday 20 November '08

Hit by Wall St crisis and US slowdown, the Indian outsourcing hub is learning to live with the pink slips.

‘I signed the letter, took the cheque and walked out... it was over in five minutes’

Thursday 20 November '08

Sandeep Jadhav, a 27-year-old professional in India’s outsourcing industry, had only seen the good times.

Need for speed

Thursday 20 November '08

Bangalore’s international airport is six months old. The tally so far: number of weeks airport operational - 26; number killed on the road to the airport — 36, mainly villagers.

Why the placement chief at IIM-B is working overtime

Wednesday 5 November '08

Ensconced in an airy office in the pristine, leafy campus of one of the most coveted management schools in India...

Take-off, landing

Saturday 18 October '08

Air Deccan’s history shows that airlines have a long, long way to go

Executive searches, done with sharp elbows

Wednesday 6 December '06

Dearth of talent leads some firms to scout globally for top people