Mallika Nawal

68 years after Jawaharlal Nehru - the architect of the elaborate system of licenses - decreed “the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell”, it was yet another Prime Minister who promised to deliver to the people of India, their final freedom from the era of license raj. Image source Dubbed as Narendra Modi’s pet project, the...

Honestly speaking, giving/receiving feedback has become as common as the common cold. And like the common cold, it often leaves us feeling miserable. In fact, sometimes it’s even difficult to tell what’s worse - giving it or receiving it? Which is why we are here to talk about the art and craft of giving feedback. Image source Well, let us first...

There’s a famous adage that goes — ‘If speech is silver, silence is golden.’ So enamoured we have become with this popular saying that ‘silence’ has literally become the Indian mantra of life. It is, in fact, this strange ‘Art of Silent Living’ that is responsible for our reprehensible moral turpitude. Thus, no matter what happens around us, we...

Let me first set the record straight. Whilst often used interchangeably, patriotism and nationalism are not synonymous to each other. While patriotism is a political concept, nationalism is a cultural construct. In other words, while patriotism entails a love for one’s country and a desire to defend its political boundaries; nationalism, according to the Oxford English dictionary, on the...

Times change. Situations change. Realities change…But there’s one thing that never changes - an ever-present and an ever-pressing need for good leaders. No society is capable of attaining its true potential without great leaders leading the way. There are many myths when it comes to leaders and leadership. The biggest and the most common of them all is that a...