Category Archives: Culture
A tale of two love stories in Bollywood
The mid-1980s were the best of the times, they were the worst of the times for Bollywood. At one end, it was going through a terrible phase – the era of Amitabh Bachchan was on the wane and his favorite team of producers-directors, in a desparate attempt to recapture his lost magic produced terrible movies [...]
Fun!
I love the colorful and rich print ads in Indian media. So much more fun than the bland American ones.
Banker Compensation!
We expected to find that changes in incentive systems, especially executive incentives, would be highly correlated with making the leap from good to great. With all the attention paid to executive compensation – the shift to stock options and the huge packages that have become commonplace – surely, we thought, the amount and structure of [...]
Why Good Ideas Die In India!
Flouting rules comes easy to us, unless of course someone is there with a danda monitoring us. The higher we are in the socio-political power structure, the bigger danda we need to keep us in line – there are no exceptions from the poor day laborer to the richest person, everyone tries to get away [...]
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