With the dominance of Europe and America ending, the face of the world is changing rapidly in the 21st century.We are heading towards a tri-polar world, where large emerging nations such as...
Category - Economy & Current Affairs
Lessons from Dubai Metro
Bangalore Metro is taking its own sweet time while citizens grow impatient. TOI highlights two letters from readersHaving lived in Dubai for several years, I can’t but recollect the...
The rise and spectacular fall of brand Dubai
The brand Dubai subjected to enormous adverse publicity has fallen off its high profile image, rather rapidly leaving its citizens and admirers at dismay, for Dubai was run more as a...
UAE economy weathering the storm, not falling apart
Just months ago, the success of Dubai as a brand and UAE as a prosperous and growing nation at frenetic speed was being trumpeted across the world. American Writer Mark Twain, once said:...
Solitude is bliss…
Solitude always offers a different perspective of life Years ago, I didn’t understand the deeper meaning of the word solitude. With familiar struggles of a middle class existence, desire...
Wake-up call for Bangalore…
Up until a few years back, Bangalore used to be in the news for all the right reasons that made us proud. Like when Bangalore was rated as one amongst the top ten high-tech cities in the...