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Women Across the World should break stereotypes and demand fair & equal treatment. They also need to strive for a balance actualize potential, says Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in New Delhi NEW DELHI, July 2, 2014. Ms. Sheryl Sandberg, In her second innings as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook, today underscored the importance of women in the Indian economy. She said that it was imperative (of recognizing women) for any economy to grow and prosper. Adding the essentiality for  women to realize their full potential. Addressing an interactive session of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on ' Lean in: Women, Work and Will to Lead ', Ms. Sandberg said this could be achieved by ensuring equal and fair treatment of women at home and the workplace and attaining more balance at home. Women, she emphasized, should never underestimate their potential and ability. They should enforce their will and must develop a sense of confidence in themselves. Speaking about br...

Indian advertising has witnessed dramatic changes like no other country has, in the world. The transformation reflects the socio-economic changes the world is going through. In the last 50 years advertising has also underwent a lot of changes as far as consumer durable goods is concerned. Post 1943, when India was about to gain independence was still reeling under the euphoria of freedom, its people were facing acute fundamental problems such as food and other shortages, inflation challenges, ongoing war (Indo-Bangladesh)/China/Pakistan/Srilanka/The North East Insurgency India was in fact a reality, the harsh one, such more than the current, then politicians, like Morarji Desai, Indira Gandhi, must have imagined. Poverty and political unrest buoyed the uncomfortability and even more. The 70’s Show Business- It started here Untill the mid 70’s more professionals from the advertising industry started entering the advertising scene. MBA grads from the IITs and IIM’s almost half of...

New Year's twit Happy new year folks and I wish all of you a warm welcome to the new year. If 2013 was about tera and mera this year would be ‘pehle aap’ .   I wish Schumi my wishes for recovery and as I get into 33 in a few hours for now. “Get well and stay floated.” Stay safe

I was handed a pink slip  (challan) for not renewing my vehicle my pollution. I eventually did get to the petrol pump and got my pollution updated. The cop said, I was a fish . What should that mean? He just compared me to thousands of fishes (motorists) and himself with the fisherman, who gets lucky, sometimes with a catch like me. He will catch when he (Fisherman) is hungry, and so does the tigers and lions, they will eat only when they are hungry, else not.   Tarun Tejpal, deleted his posts, past tweets, he is not following anyone but a little of 2,000 people follow him. I wish to share a small personal story with you folks. My vehicle pollution was expiring today and I had seen UP police getting active and checking up on all possible vehicles they could lay their hands on. It was the summers of 2008 and I was driving on the NH-24, Ghaziabad to Veda, Noida. I was at the Kala Pathhar crossing, just before the petrol pump, I had a sight on, WHY? I was caught b...

No, Dehradun is not.  Recently Thehindu  reported that Dehradun  received  more rainfall than any other city in India(2,865 mm of rainfall between June 1 and September 30-2013)I have been passionately following the Dehradun rainfalls since 2002 (the time I got into journalism) because I found it an extension of my awareness not just of myself, instead the atmosphere I am living in. Out of passion and ignorance combined I also took a video in the month of July and posted on YouTube, claiming that Dehradun was the highest place in India that records rainfalls. I believed the Right ). According to the Hindu newspaper Mumbai came second with 2,365 mm rainfall. Hindu newspaper. See here and the title read, If Dehradun was the highest rainfall receiving spot in India or not. It's not my fault if the IMD, NE can not provide the exact data in a leading newspaper like the Hindu. They have data from Guwahati, Imphal but not Meghalaya. Cant help but get misled. However my d...

“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment” - Mahatma Gandhi Law Students Dissolution ed? If you have ever felt that law in general is Greek, you may or may not be right.  Did you know that India today breed the larges number of legal professionals in the world? According to a Harward Law School report, there are approximately, 1.3 million registered attorneys, and half a million Indian law students pass out every year from various colleges in India. Albeit that not all of them go through the regular run of the mill jobs like litigation-oriented practice or drafting. The HBS believes that partnerships in areas of legal specialization should be toast of the future.    As an ex-content manager and co-founder of a legal website lawisgreek.com, I have felt that Law students are mostly unclear about what role they would like to enshrine in the field of law, for a simple reason that law is vast and it touches all of us ...