Checks and Balances – Making Transportation Systems Accountable
The Indian consumer movement will come of age only when it is generally accepted that both providers and consumers of a good or service are reciprocally accountable. View PDF
Who’s Winning This War – With the increasing use -and abuse- of antibiotics, bacteria are learning to fight back against the deadly drugs
It is unfair to blame the GP alone for increasing antibiotic resistance. Patients should be educated against self- medication. View PDF
Keys For Mindscapes –
The rough edges of psychiatric rehabilitation are continuously being chipped away and this can be to everyone’s benefit, observes Rohini Nilekani. View PDF
When they’re 64 – Today’s parents are not sure they will get their children’s support in their old age
have two children, but they have not been brought into this world with the hope that they will look after me when I grow old.” Name: Monica Thapar. Age: 36 years. Family status: Divorced. Job: Works for INTACH. Residence: Delhi. View PDF
Shake hands and make up
Chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde and the dissidents, led by H. D. Deve Gowda, have called a truce. But, given the belligerence of both sides, how long will it last? WHh deliberate cunning chief minister R.K. Hegde tried to reduce the serious matter of dissidence to a simple issue of discipline. But it is not likely […]
A hi-tech spinoff – ISRO
The Indian Space Research Organisation has begun to transfer advanced technology to the commercial sector. t is a high-profile, hi-tech organisation packed with some of the finest scientific and technical minds in the country. In keeping with its glamorous profile, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has a generous budget (Rs 300 crores in 1987). […]
The old resignation routine
R. K. Hegde wins a small victory against the dissidents and pulls his favourite ‘resignation’ stunt again. If 28 March had been the day of the dissidents in Karnataka, 3 July unexpectedly belonged to the loyalists. In March, the Janata rebels had nearly spiked the elections of the party candidates to the Rajya Sabha. View […]
Hegde’s nemesis
H.D. Deve Gowda has none of Ramakrishna Hegde’s charm, but his dissidence has finished off the Karnataka chief minister’s national ambitions. View PDF
Buy one, rent one – Kinectic Honda
Early bird customers o f Kinetic Honda have a unique facility: a scooter on rent from any dealer anywhere in the country. Early this year. Kinetic Honda Motor Ltd, the Japanese collaboration headquartered in Pune, began a scheme called the Founders’ Club, for all those custorhers who purchased Kinetic Honda scooters (current Bangalore price Rs […]
The Loan Messiah – Janardhana Poojari
Despite the barrage of criticism from within and without the party, Union minister of state for finance Janardhan Poojary’s loan melas continue to win him immense popularity. View PDF
