When Lakshmi met Saraswati
CAMPUS DIARY
| And if that's not dramatic enough "" this is the tycoon who had Kylie perform at his daughter's wedding "" he has struck yet another idea that could vault into one's head for ungetoutable good. A Champions Trust, no less, for Indian athletes. |
| DOING DOHA |
| It's the Rohwer effect all over again. "The Rising East" is the title of the annual Tradewinds symposium of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), being held today and tomorrow "" just before the WTO talks in Hong Kong. |
| As the title suggests, this is about getting a lasting edge. Exporters do not want to do a Kabir Mulchandani: shake the market with cheap stuff, and then exit. |
| THINK GLOBAL, LEARN LOCAL |
| Harvard Business School (HBS) is to open a research centre in India to get a closer view of what's going on. The focus: India's "transformation". |
| The Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, meanwhile, has set up its own B-school, Indo-German Training Center (IGTC), in Chennai, with a programme designed with inputs from German firms operating in India. And oh, Henkel has tied up with the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad, for similar reasons. See? students with a cause |
| And what a weird cause it is. Whispers have it that the brave students of Delhi's Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), having taken inspiration from bra burners in America, who in turn had taken artistic inspiration from French liberte-egalite-fraternite banner-wavers, had recently formed a movement to burn (or threaten to burn) their laptops. Why so? |
| That's an online muddle. But onlookers got nothing resembling Delacroix. |