Desi Fodder

• Finally a show of spine…
  Beginning to wonder if the only organization with a backbone in this country is the army, amongst all the other spineless representatives we have roaming around the globe at any given point in time. Regrettable incident but the exact response that was required. I wonder what our other delegations would have done if subjected to […]
• Top Ten MBA programs: 15 months as a MBA student at Columbia Business School
  I put these together as an informal sampler of my business school education, a journey that started with an ideal conversation in March 1997 and ended on commencement day in April 2000 at Uris Hall, the Columbia Business School campus on 116th and Broadway. In March 1997 I never thought that an Ivy League MBA […]
• Pakistan Flood Relief: The uphill battle to rebuild lives.
  The water came at night in Nowshera. Not silently like a thief, nor on tip toes, but with all the ferocity of a moving sea mixed with the weight of mud, stones, trees and swept away dreams. 2 am at night, all you could do was wake up and run. But unlike a tidal wave […]
• Interesting Historical context: World GDP over the last 2000 years
  Gulzar at Urbanomics picks up a graph courtesy of the Economist showing the top contributors to world GDP over the last two thousand years using 1990 dollars based Purchasing Parity Index. Over the years it seems that atleast using the Purchasing Parity Index the Global Economy has actually shrunk. Also witness the rise of the […]