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Outsourcing has played a greater role than any other sector in shaping the global business landscape and BPOs in India have earned billions of dollars and created millions of jobs. On top of the heap in terms of both revenue and headcount is Genpact.
Sunday , 4 November '07
A senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, Stephen Cohen is an expert on India, Pakistan, proliferation, and other South Asian issues. A reviewer described his latest book on Pakistan, The Idea of Pakistan, as “an intellectual tour de force, a gripping and informative tale about a dangerously flawed but not failed state”. During his recent visit he spent an afternoon with Express staff, discussing the region, Pakistan’s recent problems, India’s internal dynamics on the nuclear deal, and the grave danger of proliferation in West Asia. Our Chief of National Bureau, Pranab Dhal Samanta, moderated the discussion.
Sunday , 28 October '07
Union Minister of Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, who belongs to Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal, is a socialist by ideology. He is in charge of schemes such as the NREGA and Bharat Nirmaan, which form the core of the UPA government’s Common Minimum Programme. In an interaction with Express staff, he spoke about conditions in his native state Bihar, implementation of rural schemes, and the crisis with the Left over the Indo-US nuclear deal. The discussion was moderated by Senior Editor (Politics) Varghese K. George
Sunday , 21 October '07
Harsha Bhogle, an IIM-A graduate, is one of the most popular commentators on cricket. In a recent interaction with Express staff, he spoke about the new Twenty20 format, the business of sports and sports broadcasting, captaincy in India, and his journey as a commentator. Excerpts...
Sunday , 14 October '07
The top UPA leadership has tried to scotch speculation about mid-term elections. But from listening to Union Minister Kapil Sibal and CPI MP and Communist ideologue D. Raja at an interaction with Express staffers, it seemed clear that the Congress and the Left still continue to maintain their positions on what they think the nuclear deal with the U.S. will do to the country. Excerpts from a discussion in which the two leaders addressed questions on how the coalition hopes to get through another 18 months...
Sunday , 7 October '07
Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma retired as the Chief Justice of India in January 1998. After his BSc and LLB, this alumnus of the University of Allahabad was a reluctant lawyer. He began his career in Madhya Pradesh, where he rose to become Chief Justice. He was transferred to Rajasthan High Court in 1986 and moved to the Supreme Court in 1989. During an interaction with the Express team, Verma, who had come to be known as the “face of judicial activism”, explained his understanding of activism and where it differed from judicial overreach. Senior Associate Editor Pamela Philipose moderated the discussion. Excerpts . . .
Sunday , 30 September '07
An exclusive screening of Gandhi My Father was recently organised for Express staffers, at which the four prime movers of the film — producer Anil Kapoor, director Feroz Abbas Khan, actor Akshaye Khanna, and Gandhi scholar Tridip Suhrud — were present. Khanna plays the Mahatma’s eldest son, Harilal, with whom the Father of the Nation had a strained relationship. Director Khan said his objective was to go through the facts without trying to draw conclusions. Suhrud, who has translated Chandulal Dalal’s biography of Harilal, helped the production with ideas. For Kapoor, this was the first venture as producer.Some excerpts from the interaction.
Sunday , 23 September '07
Anjolie Ela Menon is one of the country’s leading contemporary artists. Her works feature in some of the most important art collections in the world. Anjolie held her first solo exhibition at 18. She was awarded the Padma Shree in 2000. In her five decades as an artist, she has seen the art world in India evolve and grow. Anjolie Ela Menon spend some time with Express staffers and answered several questions on the art boom, creativity, and the politics and commerce around art in India these days. Senior Assistant Editor (Features) Leher Kala moderated the discussion.
Sunday , 16 September '07
Dr Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, is a medical practitioner by training. After serving as a minister in the NDA government at the Centre, he was sent to Chhattisgarh to head the first BJP government in the newly carved state. He is besieged by several problems, among them the charge that the Salwa Judum initiative against Naxalites has gone wrong badly. Raman Singh spent an afternoon with Express staffers answering questions. Excerpts . . .
Sunday , 9 September '07
Over the last two years, the world’s top cricket teams have woken up to a strange phenomenon — aggressive Indian teams daring them on the field, staring back, matching word for word.
Sunday , 2 September '07
It˜s been seven years since the Fashion Design Council of India was formed by a group of people in the fashion business. The idea behind FDCI is to give upcoming fashion designers a common platform...
Sunday , 26 August '07
Although India is rapidly heading towards being the world’s youngest democracy, politics is chiefly run by veterans and seniors. So The Indian Express invited three young MPs recently elected to Parliament to ask them about their approach to politics. Supriya Sule, of the NCP, studied science in college and is passionately devoted to schooling. Kanimozhi, of the DMK, is a Tamil poet too. Our third guest was Yashodhara Raje, of the BJP, who has been an MLA before, but this is her first stint as an MP. All three are also bearers of a powerful parent’s political legacy. In a discussion with Express staff, they try to explain how they handle it all. Editor-in-Chief Shekhar G...
Sunday , 19 August '07
V. Thulasidas, CMD of Air India after Indian Airlines was merged with it, began his career as a lecturer in English. He was then selected to the IAS in the Manipur-Tripura cadre and has worked in various capacities in Kerala, Tripura and the Centre. He headed Air India even before the merger, and is credited with giving the airline a new direction with his leadership. In a freewheeling discussion with Express staff, moderated by Financial Express Dy Executive Editor Sourav Majumdar, at Express Towers, Mumbai, Thulasidas spoke about the challenges facing the new airline in highly competitive times
Sunday , 12 August '07
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, former Union Minister for Human Resource Development, had a controversial tenure when the NDA Government was at the Centre and faced criticism from the Congress and the Left for his unapologetic Hindutva views. In an interaction with Express editorial staff, Joshi said he was not in the race for any post in the party. He began with strong words against the Indo-US nuclear deal, and also spoke of the state of the BJP, the “ideological drift”, and his views on coalitions
Sunday , 5 August '07
Dr Karan Singh, son of the late Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir, has had a long career in academics and politics. He has been associated with the Congress since 1967, when he became a minister in then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s cabinet. Karan Singh visited The Indian Express office recently, and in an interaction with staffers, spoke of why he thinks he lost the presidential race and his ideas on the Left and secularism.
Sunday , 22 July '07
Jagdish Khattar, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Maruti Udyog, is always a man on the move — walking, talking, studying and meeting people and staff. His tenure at India’s largest carmaker has seen the low of a Rs 269-crore loss in 2001 and the dramatic turnaround last year when the firm posted profits of Rs 1,500 crore. Khattar met Express journalists for lunch and spoke on the company he runs and much more.
Sunday , 15 July '07
Tall boy from Allahabad, son of poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, actor, screen icon, former member of Parliament and, above all, a national obsession, Amitabh Bachchan has packed more in his 60-odd years than most overachievers do. Once close to the Gandhi family, Bachchan has now found new friends among politicians and businessmen. He has been in the news almost all his acting life but lately, it has been for the wrong reasons, with the media giving him tags like “superstitious” and “irresponsible”. It’s all without any basis, Bachchan told the Express in Mumbai during a chat with the paper’s journalists. He shared his dismay at what he said was misreporting, and talked about his times, ...
Sunday , 8 July '07
Inder Kumar Gujral shot into the limelight when from External Affairs Minister, he was “nominated” prime minister by the United Front’s constituent parties in 1997 (after the Sitaram Kesri-led Congress threatened to withdraw support to Devegowda’s government on the Jain Commission-DMK issue). An ex-Congressman, then a member of the Janata Dal, Gujral was born in Punjab the year World War I ended. As a young boy in 1931, he “started a movement of young children in Jhelum town.” He participated in the freedom struggle and was jailed in 1942 during the Quit India Movement. Union Minister of State from 1967 to 1976, his departure from Indira Gandhi’s ministry during the Emergency was his break ...
Sunday , 1 July '07
Nik Gowing has been the face of BBC World since 1996. As the channel’s main anchor, he has fronted coverage of some of the most momentous events that have occurred in recent memory. He was hauled out of bed to announce Princess Diana’s death in August 1997 and broadcast, live, for the next six hours as the drama unfolded. He was also on air for six hours shortly after the twin towers were hit in New York on September 11, 2001. Before joining BBC, he was a foreign affairs specialist and presenter for ITN for 18 years, and his coverage of Bosnia was part of the portfolio that won ITN’s Channel Four News a BAFTA award.On a recent visit to Delhi, Gowing spent some time with Express staffers, dis...
Sunday , 24 June '07
The recent agitation by the Gurjjars of Rajasthan for inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes resulted in much violence and a blockade of several important highways in parts of north India. In a discussion last fortnight with Express staffers, Lt Col Kirori Singh Bainsla, who led the agitation, and Mahendra Singh Gurjjar and Gulab Singh Varma, who have been associated with the Gurjjar movement for long, explained why their community's demand for ST status is justified and why they think it lost out on development to the Meenas, who are deemed STs. The discussion was moderated by City Editor (Delhi) Anuradha Nagaraj
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