In its effort to profile potential future employees, Tata Consultancy Services has conducted a survey of India's youth which covered their educational interests and usage of technology along with information access and social networking preferences. It has identified the youth in four categories: The Globetrotter: Today’s students continue to express a strong desire to be mobile like previous...

My friend had an interesting question for me the other day as I was grappling with this column deadline. He said, you have been writing for so long, but do people really take career advice seriously? His point was that opinions of experts are acceptable as long as they are convenient, but make sense only if they lead to a radical change in one’s life. So risking my editor’s rightful wrath, I...

Here is an example of how employees initiated change. Why can’t we do this at broader levels?

This piece is inspired by the poor voter turnout in the recent elections in Mumbai, the centre of commercial activity, India’s financial capital. Even accounting for the fact that elections coincided with a long stretch of holidays, the low turnout was pathetic. Don’t we care? Or do we continue to...