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The older you get, the harder it is to change. Civic sense is best inculcated when you are young. Picking up on these two tenets, the Ahmedabad Traffic Police is launching a programme for helmet awareness targeting kids. In partnership with SBI Life Insurance, which has already launched a similar initiative with the traffic police […]
The Crafts Council of Gujarat (CCG) has transported a ten feet high handloom to the tenth-floor ballroom of the ITC Narmada, where it has been placed right next to the stage. This is the newly formed Council’s first big event and it’s making a splash. The Who’s Who of Ahmedabad is in attendance, all dressed […]
As an engineering student in BITS Pilani, I was fascinated to watch statistics in action when our test scores were graded. The professors would pin the graph up on the notice board and the logic behind the grades was always transparently clear. The grading system in engineering schools is based on the principle that the […]
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Paris that he was the very first member of Alliance Francaise (AF) Ahmedabad when it was started in 1981, he was exaggerating a bit. The receipt issued to him is in December 1981 in numbered eight, and his membership number was A-011, so there were undoubtedly a few […]
When Sylvia Boorstein inverted the popular dictum “don’t just sit there, do something” in the title of her bestselling book “Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There,” she turned the spotlight on an idea that many people know to be true. Boorstein is a disciple of Indian Vipassana teacher Nani Bala Barua, and her book is […]
Another leading ice cream brand from Ahmedabad seems set to be acquired by a foreign company, with the news breaking that Bain Capital is in talks with Vadilal for the takeover of Vadilal Industries and Vadilal Enterprises. Five years ago, the Ahmedabad based Havmor ice cream brand was taken over by Lotte Confectionary of South […]
This week’s news headline ‘Student Dies by Suicide at Adani Medical College in Bhuj’ would not have gone down well with the Adani group. Under normal circumstances, a suicide should not damage the name of a college, but these are exceptional times for the Adani Group. Ever since the Hindenburg Report, the brand has been […]
With their striking architecture, the dozen-or-so high rises buildings that make up the Gift City skyline look surreal on a cloudy July afternoon, like spaceships on Mars. I am there as part of a contingent of reporters from all over the country and we are headed to the Radisson Gift City Club, which is one […]
When 14-year-old Dev Shah, won the $50,000 American National Spelling Bee Competition last month, people were once again asking that old question: what makes Indian-Americans so good at the game? It’s a question that social psychologist and author Gurnek Bains has been asked often and his answer is unequivocal: it’s in the Indian DNA. “Indians […]
Anniversaries and birthdays come around with unerring regularity in our lives, but we still love to celebrate them. They are there to mark something important that happened in the past and an opportunity to reflect on the changes that have occurred over the years and look ahead to the future. Countries celebrate their independence days […]
The State Dinner to be hosted by the White House for Prime Minister Modi on Thursday has a range of vegetarian dishes, starting with a marinated millet and grilled corn kernel salad and moving on to a main course of stuffed portobello mushrooms and creamy saffron infused Risotto. But one of the most interesting items […]
Verghese Kurien is in the news again, eleven years after his death, thanks to a tweet put out by Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder of Naukri.com, who says India’s milkman delivered a “downright rude” convocation address at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) in 1988. Bikhchandani, who graduated from the IIMA in 1989, says Dr Kurien, […]
Having won the elections with a comfortable majority, the Congress Party has now embarked on a tough and possibly prolonged negotiation for the post of Chief Minister in Karnataka. As a business journalist, I have had occasion to write several articles on the art of negotiation. Most of the principles that apply to business also […]
In 2016, two years before the hit Akshay Kumar starrer Padman brought menstrual hygiene into the mainstream, a young academic was busy doing a baseline research study on the subject in Ahmedabad. Arpan Yagnik, a graduate of MICA, was then a doctoral student in the area of development communication at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and his […]
The Same-Sex Marriage Case being heard in the Supreme Court has an Ahmedabad connection. Among the lawyers currently engaged in the fight for marriage equality is a 24-year-old graduate of the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) named Rohin Bhatt. Born in Bhavnagar, where his father was a civil servant and mother a college lecturer, Rohin […]
MICA (formerly Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad), in collaboration with Global Health Strategies (GHS), has concluded the first phase of training senior scientists of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) on ‘Health Communication’. As part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Centre for Development Management and Communication (CDMC) at MICA, ICMR and GHS, the […]
The French Gallery at the Alliance Francaise (AF) Ahmedabad was packed with the city’s glitterati and expatriate crowd on Friday for the opening of Wakaliwood, Slum Cinema Studio, a photographic exhibition by Frederic Noy. Speaking on the occasion, AF Ahmedabad President Pavan Bakeri compared Noy with Henri Cartier-Bresson, another great French photojournalist, who played a major role […]
Earlier this year, when Aruna and Ganesan Raghuram moved out of their apartment in Ahmedabad’s Vastrapur area to a retirement community in Bangalore, it made for a big change in their lifestyle. Their 3 BHK apartment in Serene Urbana, near the Bangalore airport, is smaller than their 4 BHK flat in Ahmedabad, but it has […]
Everytime the city adds a new building code, it increases the costs of construction and makes housing less affordable for the poor, says Bimal Patel, President of CEPT University. Speaking at the release of the book “Decoding Mumbai: 18 Graphical Case Studies of the City’s Building Codes,” on Friday, Dr Patel said that slums are the result […]
How do you solve a problem like Ashneer Grover? Borrowed from The Sound of Music song, the line best describes the Indian business establishment’s reaction to Grover’s recent book, Doglapan. I have asked several CEOs what they think of the book and most of them just shake their head in disapproval and mutter something that sounds like what […]
