Internal communications ought to facilitate decision making at the top via quality ‘floor feedback’ and encourage employee participation and output via clear and compassionate responsibility delegation – leading to overall benefit of the organization, the management and the employees.
‘Friend’ is a rather strong word, but I believe Sabeen Mahmud and I considered each other almost that – despite not being in touch lately. We had first got talking in 2006 due to our common links then with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
As I grapple with the initial, broad mapping of content and technology architectures of a news journalism product that I plan to launch in India, I must admit that I am unusually distracted by the state of brand equity – and the consequent future – of the product category itself.
Evicted from Bhutan at the age of 11, Vidhyapati Mishra spent two decades in U.N.-funded Bhutanese refugee camp in eastern Nepal before resettling in the United States. The self-learned journalist Mishra featured in the New York Times with his powerful narrative story about the other side of the Bhutan’s gross national happiness.
There are many ways in which modern societies are getting shaped across the world. Australia cast its vote recently in favour of crafting one by handpicking well heeled citizens from other countries.
Sharir to nashwar hai, iska kya moh. Sharir ke sukh ki chinta na karke hamein aatma ki puja karni chahiye. Every morning we get to hear some version of the above. It would not be too off the mark to say that the human body has always been the favourite ‘whipping boy’ of most of the real and wannabe spiritual or religious gurus. But does our body, which stands for everything that we are and which allows us...
Every few months, success of a person of Indian origin in a western country creates a huge frenzy back here in India. Why? No one quite knows why. Unfortunately, a lot of home-grown stars have perished in many a by-lanes of India in abject poverty. As they say, success is relative. The more successful you are, the more relatives you have. Right? What is it about us Indians that makes us ridiculously foolish...
The worst sight that one would want to have just around the monsoon is the sight of more than a dozen school children ‘packed’ within (and about) a rickety auto rickshaw of a Maruti Van. What a criminal abuse of a child’s right to live the most refreshing and pristine season of life! Obviously, this is neither a new phenomenon nor restricted to the city of Ahmedabad. On the contrary, we seem to be copying...
It was by far the biggest market research exercise undertaken by Kitli Times (KT), along with the expert of the field, NBPN. 11,400 individuals from the various strata of the Amdavadi society were painstakingly selected and interviewed by the KT-NBPN team of professionals. And what we found was nothing short of shocking. 46 % of the respondents feel that Sardar Manmohan Singhji should now become the President...
Let us all raise our hands and put them together for the Gujarati film industry. For a family that has probably got used to being written off by all and sundry, completing 75 years of existence is a commendable effort from any benchmark. The author, on behalf of League magazine and all the GLOVADIs spread across the globe, congratulates the industry and wishes it an exponential rise in fortunes. The most repeated...
One of the most desirable features of a great city is a voice of its own. A voice that not only speaks with but also on behalf of its people. With voice, however, we do not necessarily mean talking about the much-documented idiosynchronisies of the place. That can be taken care by novelists and filmmakers. Why, we Amdavadis (or Gujaratis, for that matter), are already quite adequately represented by the ‘kanta...
Anshuman RAWAT (born 9 Oct 1974) is an Indian journalist-editor, communications specialist, author, filmmaker and serial media entrepreneur. His long-term ambition is to play a leading role in the development and spread of social welfare-oriented convergence of communication and technology in India - and indeed across the developing world. He currently lives in Ahmedabad, India.
