Deterioration of IAS

An article in "The Week" detailing the deterioration of the IAS - Civil Services in General over a period of time. Be it becoz of money or due to the pressure of the political master, the charm of being an IAS has dropped over the years among the best brains. The article can be read here.

The Monk and the Riddle

Just Going through a nice book that highlights about the entrepreneurship and silicon valley startups. Written by Randy Komisar. Anybody thinking of a startup should just browse through the book. Makes for a interesting reading. The review of the book can be read here.

Link to Top 100 Blogs.

BlogStreet has a link for Top 100 blogs. The Top blog is decided based on the numbers of blogs referring them.

The Dum Dum Bullet..

Going through a book these days "The Dum Dum Bullet" by Sandeep Goyal. Sandeep is a FMS grad and has been in advertising & media business for a long time. In this book he shares his experiences in the advertising business and clients in general. Makes for a light and interesting reading. The review of the book can be read here or here.

Hottest IT Skills...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1101383.cms

Article Written by me long time back..

Here's a link to the article which i had written some time back on the life @ XLRI after few months of joining the college.
http://www.coolavenues.com/bschools/diary_suraj_xlri.php3
Coolavenues is a site forB-school aspirants as well as the B-school students.

How Business Schools Lost their way...

A thought provoking HBR Article ..

IT Companies trying to capture a bigger pie..

The top five Indian IT companies have added more than 190 clients in the $1m per annum revenue bracket in FY05, taking the total client base in this category to 804. The article http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1103001.cms has quite a few statistics that reveal that the Indian IT companies have started reaching to bigger clients as well as making the existing clients do more business with them. Makes perfect sense...The article does not give much details about Cognizant which is also destined to enter the Billion dollar club soon towards the end of this year or early next year..Great Going.. India Shining ;)