How diplomacy and poetry are linked

It is widely accepted that the greatest literature is born when cultures, civilizations or worldviews come together. This often happens in case of diplomat-poets who often find themselves in exotic......

If India had a Marxist prime minister

What would India look like if a prematurely grey Malayali Marxist was the prime minister instead of a blue-turbaned neo-liberal Sikh?For starters, there would have been no George Bush visit, let......

Menage a trois in Kashmir

I really would like to believe that the Americans are a positive force in the moves towards a settlement in Kashmir. As a general principle, Americans, rightly, look for an angle, and I hope their......

The Ford legend

For more than a century now, Ford Motor Company has been selling mass produced automobiles around the globe. One of the big three American manufacturers, Ford has attracted millions of loyal......

The 'Ford' test of CEO success

Few people are likely to take issue with last week's ranking in business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio of the world's worst-ever CEOs. Lehman Brothers' Dick Fuld, Enron's Ken Lay and even......

Biggest business blunders ever

A wise man once said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Entrepreneurs will need every drop of hard-earned wisdom to navigate the coming year--by all accounts, a......

At 17, she has built a million-dollar web site

Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching......

Irish tourist was first tennis champ

Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered to a lukewarm Turin reception; Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II was crowned in Moscow, while in the United States 1896 saw Henry Ford put the finishing touches......