Sunday, March 17, 2002

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It is said that the job market is in a recession and ‘good’ people, who could job hop at will until a few years ago, seem to be caught in between jobs. The perception is that not only has the job volume gone down dramatically, the pay and perks too have dwindled to a trickle.
Prerana Trehan checks out the corporate scenario and finds out that the nature of jobs has changed as has the suitability of people wanting them.

Melody that stems from mysticism
K.R.N. Swamy
IT was October 22, 1966, just a day prior to the most important concert in the life of Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbalakshmi, the queen of Carnatic music. She was to sing the next day in the United Nations, the first-ever Indian musician to do so. On waking up that morning, in her hotel in New York, she found that her voice had "gone" and she was not able to even call her daughter and accompanist Radha Viswanathan, affectionately known as Radha.

The lure of lemon gathering
K.K. Khullar
"TIME was when the Punjabi moustaches could hold a lemon, today they cannot sustain even a grain of mustard": thus bemoans a Punjabi proverb of the pre-Partition days. Even otherwise, the size of the lemon has shrunk and the moustaches have simply disappeared from the upper lip, except of course in rare cases.

The reasons why the boss is always "in a meeting"
Mohinder Singh
AS a senior bureaucrat, occasionally I would encounter someone in a social gathering who would remark how difficult it was to get to me on phone. That came as a surprise, as I prided myself on being accessible. My long-term PA was also deemed as fairly friendly. But now, reduced to a mere citizen, realisation has dawned how difficult it is to get a high-up on phone.

Celebrating a unique city
Ashok Malik
THE city is best known for its unusually large, luscious oranges. It is also called the Zero Mile City as, spatially, it falls bang at the centre on the map of India. Furthermore, it also holds the distinction of being the second capital of a state.