Shombit Sengupta is an international creative business strategy consultant to top management. Reach him at www.shiningconsulting.com
March 07, 2010 02:42 IST
Art has been a human right before civilisation started. The earliest cave painters at Lascaux,France,dating back 30,000 years,drew animals....
Sun, Mar 07, 2010February 28, 2010 02:12 IST
Along with a global insurance client chairman,a Scotsman operating from Japan,I visited homes of consumers who earn Rs 5,000 per month in different states in India and we micro-detailed their thoughts and lifestyle.....
Sun, Feb 28, 2010February 21, 2010 02:30 IST
On a reality show,when a child or an earnest youngster is criticised for his or her imperfect performance,tele-spectators find vicarious fun there,although most do not admit it.
Sun, Feb 21, 2010February 14, 2010 03:11 IST
I love to trickle down the crevasse of our social fibre,away from software emperors PowerPoint and Excel sheet,or cyber gods demanding cut,paste,save before loads of hard work disappears forever into irretrievable temporary files....
Sun, Feb 14, 2010February 07, 2010 01:18 IST
Who would have believed that one of Indias least industrialised states today,West Bengal,was the ignition of the late...
Sun, Feb 07, 2010January 31, 2010 02:04 IST
Last week,my article,Fact,fiction or fantasy,evoked the following response from a reader: The man belongs in a madhouse....
Sun, Jan 31, 2010January 24, 2010 02:08 IST
In a small village on the foothills of the Pyrenees was born the second son of a strict,bourgeois notary.
Sun, Jan 24, 2010January 17, 2010 02:08 IST
Why is there a traffic jam? I asked. The driver rolled down the car window and I heard the crowd reply,Modna has come to Kolkata! The driver repeated knowledgeably,Modna aaya. In colloquial Bengali,Modna means stupid,but that was not what they implied. Inching through roads thronged with excited multitudes,I reached the airport to find that Argentinas […]
Sun, Jan 17, 2010January 10, 2010 03:09 IST
Making the world go fast has resulted in todays catastrophic environmental situation....
Sun, Jan 10, 2010January 03, 2010 02:55 IST
In the 60 years after World War II,consumerism started with marketing,the organised selling of mass scale products....
Sun, Jan 03, 2010December 27, 2009 03:09 IST
Sustainability depends on family and kinshipboth in Bollywood and Indian politics. Legacies are handed down from generation to generation....
Sun, Dec 27, 2009December 20, 2009 03:12 IST
The buzz: India has high growth potential. Question: How to unleash it? Answer: We need large numbers of skilled working class people who are sensitive craftsman,almost like connoisseurs....
Sun, Dec 20, 2009December 13, 2009 00:55 IST
Since 2001,Ive started writing a white paper on Indias Zap86 generation. As time goes by,the trends that they are setting are becoming more evident.
Sun, Dec 13, 2009December 06, 2009 03:42 IST
Indias Constitution has been downloaded from those of nine countriesBritain,US,Ireland,France,Canada,Australia,Malaysia,Japan and Weimar,plus the UN Human Rights Declaration....
Sun, Dec 06, 2009November 29, 2009 02:19 IST
For men,a woman is an essential object of lust. Women engage in sex without love to overcome monotony,out of monetary greed or the poor ones,for livelihood purposes....
Sun, Nov 29, 2009November 22, 2009 02:20 IST
Subtlety resides in the subliminal private garden of every person. Subtlety introduces an element of elevation into society,it contributes to a civilisations refinement....
Sun, Nov 22, 2009November 15, 2009 02:39 IST
To look alike is a major crisis,especially when people have money. For industry,differentiation in deliverables is essential to increase net worth....
Sun, Nov 15, 2009November 08, 2009 04:11 IST
About 2.5 billion people in the world have no access to safe sanitation,and half of South Asia suffers the indignity of open defecation....
Sun, Nov 08, 2009November 01, 2009 03:24 IST
Ive often visited India,accompanying CEOs of Western clients who want to understand the Indian market climate.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009October 25, 2009 03:05 IST
Society at large is experiencing a contradiction between open and closed environments at the individual and industry levels....
Sun, Oct 25, 2009October 18, 2009 23:30 IST
Europeans often ask me about female foeticide in India,but Ive always considered it Western exaggeration drawn from an incidental case or two.
Sun, Oct 18, 2009October 11, 2009 05:07 IST
Travelling with MindTrees gardener Subroto Bagchi the other day,he reminded me of a tea-break tête-à-tête 12 years ago,when we had met in Bangalore....
Sun, Oct 11, 2009October 04, 2009 01:16 IST
For foreign tourists,theres exotic charm in India being unpredictable in multiple senses....
Sun, Oct 04, 2009April 21, 2007 00:13 IST
Forty per cent of the voters are uncertain. And there are at least three unhappy vote banks. This year, no French presidential candidate has a clear agenda
Sat, Apr 21, 2007