Jaithirth Rao, popularly known as Jerry Rao, is an Indian businessman and entrepreneur based in Mumbai. Founder and former CEO of software company MphasiS, he is at present Executive Chairman of Value and Budget Housing Corporation.
May 12, 2010 23:14 IST
It was hilarious to watch Hillary Clinton on TV threatening Pakistan with unmentioned dire consequences if a successful terrorist...
Wed, May 12, 2010March 10, 2010 01:26 IST
Believers in constitutional integrity must support SP,RJD,BSP,even if their tactics are wrong....
Wed, Mar 10, 2010January 30, 2010 23:01 IST
Race of a Lifetime claims to be a vivid and novelistic portrait of the US presidential elections. It starts off with the candidates...
Sat, Jan 30, 2010January 01, 2010 03:24 IST
Our GDP will grow either fast or,hopefully,very fast. The trick will be to adapt society to change....
Fri, Jan 01, 2010December 08, 2009 22:59 IST
The recent crash in Dubai should not come as a surprise to readers of this column. The idea that if we build the infrastructure...
Tue, Dec 08, 2009November 16, 2009 02:23 IST
Professor Sheldon Pollock has just announced scholarships for Dalit students who wish to study Sanskrit at Columbia University.
Mon, Nov 16, 2009October 06, 2009 01:39 IST
The potential for spin-offs in the Unique ID project is being underestimated
Tue, Oct 06, 2009September 01, 2009 03:36 IST
Jaswant Singhs book is a brilliant landmark encompassing accepted and contrarian views. According to him,Partition...
Tue, Sep 01, 2009August 21, 2009 00:37 IST
A brief history of Indias Left and its stints in power....
Fri, Aug 21, 2009July 11, 2009 03:12 IST
September 2008 was less than a year ago. Lehman Brothers collapsed. AIG got nationalised. Merrill got taken over. Washington Mutual disappeared.
Sat, Jul 11, 2009June 12, 2009 00:21 IST
How under-appreciated Ruskin Bond is as a historian of our times
Fri, Jun 12, 2009May 26, 2009 00:30 IST
The party needs to rethink its agenda and its manner
Tue, May 26, 2009May 20, 2009 23:49 IST
Fix education,police and judiciary,and NREGA and your legacys defined
Wed, May 20, 2009February 28, 2009 00:08 IST
But remember bad money and crony capitalism are the worst enemies of free markets
Sat, Feb 28, 2009January 22, 2009 23:19 IST
A little pop sociology is needed to understand Pakistans elite
Thu, Jan 22, 2009February 20, 2006 00:00 IST
It is the fate of over-burdened TV-watchers of the 21st century that we are deluged with low grade analysis by ill-informed experts on the s...
Mon, Feb 20, 2006February 13, 2006 00:00 IST
As a person of the conservative persuasion, I am almost always on the side of minimal government and low taxes. But I have profound objectio...
Mon, Feb 13, 2006January 30, 2006 00:00 IST
During the years of my NRI existence, one major cause for angst was that I found the newspapers boring. This was true in Caracas, London, Lo...
Mon, Jan 30, 2006January 18, 2006 00:00 IST
The year 2008 will mark the 125th birth anniversary of Sir Mirza Ismail — a great Mysorean, an Indian who made us proud, a quintessen...
Wed, Jan 18, 2006January 02, 2006 00:00 IST
Manmohan Singh has a feel for history. In his maiden speech as finance minister, he talked about India as an idea whose time had arrived. No...
Mon, Jan 02, 2006December 17, 2005 00:00 IST
Hong Kong is a long way from Maryland, which is where I am, at a lively seminar at the city’s eponymous university. But Hong Kong, the ...
Sat, Dec 17, 2005November 26, 2005 01:25 IST
I have been a supporter of US intervention in Iraq and I have had good things to say about the leadership of Bush and Blair. I don’t in...
Sat, Nov 26, 2005October 30, 2005 00:00 IST
The ‘‘either-or’’ paradigm that is dominating the headlines in Bangalore is completely off the mark. The correct approac...
Sun, Oct 30, 2005October 07, 2005 00:00 IST
I write this from America, from what is today a troubled country possessed of over-articulate television anchors, a country bombarded and pe...
Fri, Oct 07, 2005September 07, 2005 00:00 IST
It’s about two months since Freddie Mehta went “gently into the night”. It is difficult for me at least to think of Bombay wi...
Wed, Sep 07, 2005