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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

MTHR Organises Lectures on its 10th Anniversary Celebration

Continued... The events in Bengaluru (24th May) and Mumbai (27th May)
featured the renowned author and educational consultant, Tony Buzan, best known for his concept of ‘mind mapping’.

He shared some valuable insights into the workings of the human mind during the course of his lectures. He said that studies have shown that creativity of a human being is maximum (95+) when in standard KG, drops to 50 when in high school and plunges to 10 as an adult. He said that this is normal, and the natural course should be to make it rise back to its high school level.

Buzan also made some stark observations during his talks saying that the recession of 2008-09, where companies went bankrupt, was essentially due to bankruptcy of the mind. He also said that, whereas the age before year 1750 was Agrarian for 100 years, and the subsequent ones were Industrial, Information and Knowledge Ages, the one after 2007 and continuing is one of the Mind: the Intelligence Age. Read More

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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

THE PHOENIX PERFORMERS

while both retail and real estate sectors took a beating during the slowdown, both are expected to perform much better in 2010, says Savreen Gadhoke

But in the process of getting over-excited over improvement in market affairs, the last two quarters saw real estate players raise prices of housing properties by 15-20%, thereby hampering demand once again. However, as Puri agrees, this is nothing to worry about as “for 2010, residential real estate demands appear to be the most promising. Residential will continue to lead the revival phase, led on by a lowering of mortgage rates and price rationalisation in the newly launched projects. It also looks the most positive in terms of funding. There is liquidity available for certain typologies and formats, most especially in the affordable housing segment.” The non-residential segment, which depends greatly upon overseas funding will witness a slower recovery as Vivek Mittal, CEO, Realty Stocks, says, “The office real estate space has been, to quite a measurable extent, hampered by the turbulence in the global economy, which has put a brake on the expansion of multinationals in India...” While the drying up of FDI in the retail space did play the spoilsport as far as the non-residential real estate segment is concerned, there is hope still. That the office space will bounce back is true. But unlike the residential space, it will need time beyond 2010 to regain lost ground.


THE SLOWER DRIVE...

he global retail sector will struggle for most part of 2010 due to high unemployment rates (in America & Europe) and stringent credit conditions. Fall in exports to the West will increase retail inventory in the Japanese market. There is however a chance of slow improvement, as companies will indulge in M&A activities. The growth of the IT/ITeS sector in the developed nations will primarily drive the demand for commercial real estate space.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Kashmir on The Backburner

Now that Even Pakistan has Woken up to The Evils of Terrorism (or has it?), Is it possible for The Two Countries to Work Together?

When Pakistan’s Gibraltar Operation against India failed in 1965, the then Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, vowed in frustration that “Pakistan would wage a war of a 1,000 years, a war of defence.” Stephen P Cohen, senior fellow at Brooking Institute, opined recently that “the Indo-Pakistan conflict, which includes Kashmir besides many other problems, will last for 100 years or even more.”

While putting a number to the years is really ignoring the gravity of the situation, this acrimony really doesn’t appear to be vanishing very soon. And interestingly, this is despite Kashmir going on the back burner in recent times. Discussion on the same between the two nations came to a standstill post the 26/11 attacks. Since then, the prime agenda for high level diplomatic interactions has been terrorism. In three diplomatic meetings between the foreign secretaries of both nations – in July 2009 on the sidelines of NAM meeting, then in September on the eve of the annual UN General Assembly session, and in February 2011 during the SAARC conference – the main agenda was terrorism, a speedy probe on 26/11, Rana, Headley, et al. The agenda remained the same when the Prime Ministers of both countries met in Pittsburg for the G20 summit. America’s successful ‘hunt Osama’ expedition in May followed by a series of terror strikes on Pakistani soil further enhanced the focus on terrorism.

So while Kashmir may remain important over the long term, given the fact that confidence building measures build anything but confidence, this is a good time for India to perhaps earn sincere brownie points by engaging Pakistan economically.


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