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Jaithirth Rao
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.
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London is alive and kickingSubscriber Only
August 22, 2005 00:00 IST
This is my first trip to London after last month’s bomb attacks. I look around from the moment I land seeking a “change”. The...
Mon, Aug 22, 2005Economist as clairvoyantSubscriber Only
August 08, 2005 00:00 IST
This is not a review of The Future of India. The book has already been widely reviewed. This is an unabashed advertisement for the book. Buy...
Mon, Aug 08, 2005Revive the Swatantra PartySubscriber Only
July 25, 2005 00:00 IST
The Berlin wall fell sixteen years ago. Free market communism of the Deng variety has been in place in China with vim and gusto for about tw...
Mon, Jul 25, 2005Starring in lifeSubscriber Only
July 11, 2005 00:00 IST
I am aware that it is not cool to defend the indefensible. It is a horrible, silly, unscientific superstition, a throwback to when humankind...
Mon, Jul 11, 2005Naipaul’s challengeSubscriber Only
June 27, 2005 00:00 IST
The year 2005 will be remembered for, among other things, V.S. Naipaul’s milestone speech in which he challenged Indians to come up wit...
Mon, Jun 27, 2005Fog of political correctnessSubscriber Only
June 13, 2005 00:00 IST
In contemporary Britain, immigration keeps cropping up as an election campaign issue. I am not surprised. Over the years a penumbra of polit...
Mon, Jun 13, 2005In praise of Thomas MacaulaySubscriber Only
May 26, 2005 00:00 IST
As an English historian of the virulently Whig persuasion his reputation has not stood the test of time well. He is not remembered as a grea...
Thu, May 26, 2005You can’t loan disciplineSubscriber Only
May 13, 2005 00:00 IST
You must be receiving lots of gratuitous advice. Here is some more for you to accept or discard at your peril. In my country, there are many...
Fri, May 13, 2005Good word huntingSubscriber Only
April 29, 2005 00:00 IST
I recently read a piece by H.Y. Sharada Prasad, in which he mentioned the importance of great English teachers in different colleges and uni...
Fri, Apr 29, 2005Enter, the Hebrew sutradharSubscriber Only
April 15, 2005 00:00 IST
Between board meetings and trysts with spread-sheets, I am suddenly blessed. Sitting in the corner next to the TV, I discover a gem that I h...
Fri, Apr 15, 2005The writer of possibilitiesSubscriber Only
April 01, 2005 00:00 IST
Tamil writer Jayakantan has shot into fame on the pan-Indian scene following the Jnanpith award announcement. Most persons who are en couran...
Fri, Apr 01, 2005Something Napoleonic about BushSubscriber Only
March 18, 2005 00:00 IST
The last time I wrote in defence of George W. Bush I got three broad categories of feedback. The leftist dimwits were angry, apoplectic, inc...
Fri, Mar 18, 2005Vendor of treatsSubscriber Only
March 04, 2005 00:00 IST
Some 35 years ago, I decided that it was fashionable to develop a disdainful attitude towards certain novelists. I was so much in love with ...
Fri, Mar 04, 2005Our legacy of modernitySubscriber Only
February 18, 2005 00:00 IST
I am trying to piece together seemingly unrelated views on the Indian aesthetic sensibility and create an integrated perspective. I work on ...
Fri, Feb 18, 2005A simple ‘sorry’ will doSubscriber Only
February 09, 2005 00:00 IST
It is quite in order to apologise. I remember, I remember. I remember the pessimistic prophecies of large sections of the media in the US an...
Wed, Feb 09, 2005No postal stamps for MinooSubscriber Only
January 24, 2005 00:00 IST
When it is the birth centenary year of a great countryman... a Renaissance man who excelled in many spheres, a person who helped to shape ci...
Mon, Jan 24, 2005Running India into the groundSubscriber Only
January 07, 2005 00:00 IST
Some years ago, the UN and/or the World Bank told us that we had an environment problem, on the assumption that we did not know. We promptly...
Fri, Jan 07, 2005This matter of plasticSubscriber Only
December 25, 2004 00:00 IST
In the classic movie, The Graduate, the young Dustin Hoffman is advised to get into plastic, the surest way to conquer the world. Well, Dust...
Sat, Dec 25, 2004Forget efficiency. Let’s do itSubscriber Only
December 10, 2004 00:00 IST
In the normal course, I would oppose any new government activity on the grounds that it is probably unnecessary, is likely to increase the p...
Fri, Dec 10, 2004Hello, silenceSubscriber Only
November 26, 2004 00:00 IST
I have been an unabashed admirer of the US for almost 30 years now and every time I visit the US I always seem to pick up some little nugget...
Fri, Nov 26, 2004This one’s for MartaSubscriber Only
November 12, 2004 00:00 IST
My friend Marta is a highly-educated, cosmopolitan, sophisticated American. She and I were talking about President George W. Bush. She was t...
Fri, Nov 12, 2004The Age of the ConservativeSubscriber Only
October 29, 2004 00:00 IST
To declare oneself a conservative is certainly not a fashionable or popular act. Conservatives are old fogeys, killjoys, bores, simply not w...
Fri, Oct 29, 2004Planning for the CommissionSubscriber Only
October 15, 2004 00:00 IST
John Milton wrote a great poem about the ancient Hebrew warrior, Samson. It was called ‘Samson Agonistes’ and portrays a Samson in...
Fri, Oct 15, 2004Journalism of Courage
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