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The true power of networking

In firms like where Jagat works, decisions such as promotions rely on parameters other than merit, primarily networking

Aditi Phadnis: A giant confusion

India changed its stance towards Britain over Lalit Modi who has ED cases against him, and Vasundhara Raje, who gave the ruling BJP its most triumphant victory in Rajasthan, is in the dock for alleged

Vikram Johri: Cultural capital

Mitali Saran: Education is more than religious training

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Lessons from the first year

Mr Modi seems to have confused the centralisation of power with centralisation of administration

T N Ninan: A financial slave state

42 at two

At this pre-school almost 25% of the children are overweight

Head hackers

The head hacker put my mind to sleep in the world's most comfortable bed

With the masterpieces in London

Under siege: Bookstores

Nine questions for Joan Baez

Shyamal Majumdar: Rahul Yadav's 'everyone-is-dumb-but-me' mindset

The just-sacked CEO could learn a thing or two from what Steve Jobs had said about his years of wilderness after getting fired from Apple

Bibek Debroy: Rural ICE

In the concluding part of the series, the author uses India's Consumer Economy data to demonstrate 'rural' is not a homogeneous entity

Bhupesh Bhandari: Surinder Kapur and the Japanese way

People prefer to go for private education, healthcare

In education this is happening across rural and urban sectors, though the trend is more pronounced in urban areas

Vyapam scandal is just a symptom of all that ails the job market

Madhya Pradesh scandal should be treated as a wake-up call underlining the urgent need for job creation

Greece crisis: Possible scenarios and the opportunity

It is possible that Greece's troubles will trigger a disorderly sequence of exits from the euro currency union

Rohit Kapur, Vivek Pandit & Toshan Tamhane: PE in India - Setting new benchmarks

Private equity as an asset class has had a significant impact on investee companies as well as the economy. Yet there is room to improve in terms of eventual returns

Shyam Ponappa: The centrality of cash flows

Without it, one can hardly aspire to better living conditions

Insuring crops: Urgent need for insurance & compensation fund

Existence of such a fund would obviate the need to announce special compensation packages