The 45th Carnival of Feminists is up at the Feminist Philosophers blog, and it is one huge effort. While most of the carnivals are interesting, this one really is an enormous one, full of interesting reads from around the globe. A lot of effort has also gone into organising the posts into neat categories. If [...]
Where the Victim is the Culprit, again
Television channels yesterday were awash with news of Delhi University (Indraprastha college) students protesting against harassment on their campus. None of the channels use the word harassment, they prefer to use ‘eve-teasing’, that peculiar downplaying word. Eve-teasing is ofcourse no harmless activity – remember the 1998 Sarika Shah case? The college students were forcefully making [...]
Effective Presentation
I know I linked to Rowan Manahan’s Blog quite recently, but there is just so much good stuff out there! If you are in any line of work that requires you to use powerpoint, check out this most useful presentation he has, on how to, and how not to use powerpoint. Today its not just [...]
Total Branding
In MBA school, one of the things you hear often about branding, is how it is not just restricted to any one aspect of a brand like advertising. Advertising could be the most obvious means of communication that a brand has with its consumers, but every other thing about a brand also tells consumers something. [...]
Fantastic Women Bloggers
I don’t usually take up tags or memes that are running through the blog world – mostly because many of these are personal, and I don’t really see this space as a “personal” blog. And well, there are very few business or feminist memes, which are the themes I usually write about. But I thought [...]
An Espouser of Traditional Values
I happened to be watching BBC today and came upon this news item about a popular German news and TV show anchor who was fired for talking about the positives in the Nazi regime – what she perceived as the respect for women and motherhood. Now, I believe that while her comments may have been [...]
Corporate Blogging in India
I was interested in seeing whether companies in India have begun to use blogs as a means of communication with different audiences, and I did some digging around to see who is doing what. Surprise, surprise! I just can’t find too many corporate blogs in the first place. (Or my googling skills are poor!). The [...]
Sexual Harassment – Case Update
I had written earlier about the tragic death of a young woman, Shylaja Praveen, allegedly due to sexual harassment. The police still are at a loose end, unable to find any evidence really pointing to the crime. It seems as though they have managed to find the alleged offender, Bharath, who was earlier absconding. I [...]
The fine art of quitting a job
I came across this excellent post on career consultant Rowan Manahan’s blog, Fortify your Oasis, talking about the right way to quit a job. Especially in the urban boom that we are having in India, it is all too tempting to just kick your job aside and walk out carelessly as soon as you get [...]
The Indirect Manager
Very often at interviews, one of the questions that interviewers ask is about the size of team that one has handled. “How many people reported to youin your last position?”. For many managerial positions, it is important that the person is able to work effectively with a team, hence this question, to check evidence of [...]
