Ajit Balakrishnan offers a New Year resolution for our policy-makers.
'Defence funding is channelled to State-owned research organisations where scientists are merely bureaucrats holding meetings and sending out minutes of meetings and press releases, but have long ago stopped any innovative work.' 'Unless this tragedy is fixed, India's chances to create world-conquering and job-creating new industries are slim,' says Ajit Balakrishnan.
It took four hours of thoughtful debate by a distinguished jury to choose the India Abroad Person of the Year 2003 from 186 Indian-Americans nominated by readers of India Abroad and rediff.com.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to e-commerce controversies.
Should we really pay attention to them, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Enabling the online booking and payment for Indian Railway tickets is one such case. Amitabh Pandey's book is about how he went about enthusing teams inside the Indian Railways and facilitating online reservations, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan envisions a flag to capture the spirit of the impending conflicts of the Information Age.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a recipe for creating 100,000 plus angel investors in India.
Ajit Balakrishnan decodes the angst-ridden discourse of the day.
Ajit Balakrishnan on the emerging crisis in the tech world.
The current focus on data to measure marketing success could herald the end of an era -- or the beginning of a hype cycle, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Or is all of media being re-invented, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'A lot of people who quit felt they have been in the organisation for way too long and needed a better or challenging career role to advance in their careers.'
Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Is the tech wonder of our times headed for trouble?' asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
A breakthrough will come from what we teach and how, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Some examples that show we may be call for introspection, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how the Web could return to its original egalitarian goals.
Can business schools re-invent their role, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Complicated social phenomena behind it, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
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Is it likely that one of these days, a demand may rise that only truthful endorsement should be made in media and that if it is discovered that she or he in real life does not use that brand, punishment may follow, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Do you have the courage to look through failures and unexpected pitfalls?
Or, what will the Indian policy process allow it to be, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how Indian society and the polity need to be carried along.
The world awaits a creative breakthrough for mobile phone ads, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
'I had no idea that behind the charming, ever smiling Goan faces, there is so much complexity and history!' says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan reflects on pariahs, small businesses, and blockchains.
Ajit Balakrishnan on mapping the Business Serengeti.
Failure is something that needs to be managed as carefully as success.
Perhaps, the most misunderstood aspect is the role of the state.
The processes that create a seven per cent-plus GDP growth rate without a similar growth in jobs are far from fully understood, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Perhaps one aspect of the way modern media particularly print and news television works need some soul-searching: Their tendency to "frame" news stories as a conflict between two personalities, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Content marketing is perhaps part of the tectonic shift that is under way in media with the advent of the web, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The middle class's long push to force the state to retreat from the economy may be reversing, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
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In India, the need to find a solution for the jobs problem is perhaps even more urgent considering the oft-quoted number of a million young people arriving every month looking for jobs.
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