Sunday, March 28, 2004

ART & LITERATURE
'ART AND SOUL
MUSINGS
TIME OFF
ENTERTAINMENT
TELEVISION
GARDEN LIFE
NATURE
TRAVEL
RELATIONSHIPS
LIFE'S LESSONS
CONSUMER RIGHTS
BRIDGE
HOLLYWOOD FLICKS
DREAM THEME
ULTA-PULTA
INTERACTIVE FEATURE
CAPTION CONTEST


Storm in the USA, clouds over India

Business Process Outsourcing is no longer an exclusively business activity. As campaigning for the US Presidential elections, to be held later in the year, gathers momentum, it has become a political hot potato. Peeyush Agnihotri gives the backdrop to the debate raging over the offshoring of jobs from the West to countires like India.

WHEN Tim Bernards Lee created the Internet, little did he imagine that his feat would render millions of his countrymen jobless 20 years later. The WWW wired the whole world and, spurred on by free economy ideas, the capitalist-oriented market relocated commercial establishments at places where they made more business sense and profits. For the uninitiated, this concept is termed outsourcing.

"India has done a tremendous job"
A
RUN MAHESHWARI is President and CEO of Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt. Ltd., a 100 per cent subsidiary of CSC. The company has completed 50 software projects in countries across the world. CSC is one of the fastest growing IT companies in India. It has a development centre in NOIDA and another in Indore. Maheshwari is an alumnus of IIT, Mumbai, IIM, Calcutta, Stanford University and Wharton School of Business. Maheshwari gave this interview via e-mail to Roopinder Singh.

In their fathers’ footsteps
T
HE new generation of the music gharanas is ready to take over the mantle. But while striving to live up to their respective father’s name, the Gen Y gurus face the daunting task of popularising classical music to a young audience which is getting weaned away by pop and bhangra, says Avinash Kalla

Packaging the past for the tourist
Brij Bhardwaj
H
ERITAGE, the current buzzword, has become a unique selling point for the Indian tourism industry. All states are in the race to make tourism an engine of growth and use it to solve the problem of unemployment. Not only are traditionally tourist-friendly states like Rajasthan and Kerala in the forefront of this race, but even others like Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Uttaranchal are keen to follow suit.

FICCI Frames 2004
New buzz in entertainment bazaar
Viral Bhayani
I
NDIA and Pakistan have not only been playing out moments worth framing for posterity across the border. A friendly interchange between the two neighbours also took place closer home, at FICCI Frames 2004, the entertainment bazaar held recently in Mumbai.

A leap to fame
Harvinder Khetal
T
HIS boy from Punjab is poised for a big leap to stardom in the big bad world of films. Actor Jagmit Samundri has shot into fame with his 35-foot-long leap from atop a building in the Punjabi album, Khadka Darka, in which he plays a Haryanvi Jat. Featured in the Top 10 charts on music channels, the perfect landing by Jagmit, has become a talking point for TV show hosts.

COLUMNS

TELEVISION: Shades of Chhaya

NATURE : Masters of a waterless existence
Nutan Shukla

CONSUMER RIGHTS : Paying the price for ignorance
Pushpa Girimaji

BRIDGE

DREAM THEME: Keys suggest solutions
Vinaya K. Manhas

ULTA-PULTATwo-kid family
Jaspal Bhatti

BOOKS

Reporting from the rooftop
Shelley Walia
Revolution Day: The Human Story of the Battle for Iraq
by Rageh Omaar. Viking, London. Pages 272. £ 20.

Prescriptions for changing the world
Himmat Singh Gill
The Age Of Consent
by George Monbiot. HarperCollins. Pages 274. Rs 1,365.

American role in India’s freedom struggle
Jaswant Singh
What America Did for India’s Independence
by Col M.N. Gulati (Retd). Manas Publications,
New Delhi. Pages 248. Rs 595.

Gospel of the Devil
Kamaldeep Kaur Toor
The Black Book
by Aabid Surti. English Edition, Mumbai. Pages 172. Rs 150.

End of Malgudi days
Rajnish Wattas

Not quite music to the ears
Deepika Gurdev
Dirt Music
by Tim Winton. Scribner.
Pages 416. $ 26.

Journey into a proverbial past
Shalini Rawat
A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China’s Past through its proverbs
by Adeline Yen Mah. HarperCollins. Pages 371.
£ 6.99.

Short takes
For those who dare to dream
Randeep Wadehra
Life and Dreams of Kalpana Chawla
by Gurdeep Pandher. Unistar, Chandigarh. Pages 162.
Rs 180.

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