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Some of my working women friends have told me that their experience in business and the corporate world has not been only about performing i...

Although, in India, we have had a woman Prime Minister and now have a woman President, high-ranking positions in the political, academic, bu...

Last year, Robin Ely of Harvard Business School and Debra Meyerson of Stanford University co-authored a working paper, ‘Unmasking Manly Men:...

The other day, while a lady friend of mine was driving me around Bangalore, a car driven by a man suddenly cut in and almost pushed us off t...

As a corollary to yesterday’s post, I thought I’ll add a helping hand to anyone who may benefit from an article I read online on WSJ.com Car...

Some of my women executive friends complain that they don’t get paid as well as their male counterparts do. They say that women aren’t good ...

Coincidentally, and somewhat in line with my previous post on the different realities men and women experienced in their careers, the Sunday...

I often wonder if men and women experience careers in the same way. Do women executives go through the same exhilaration and/or despair as t...

During a job interview, I was asked whether women employees were better than men. Honestly, I was caught off-guard. I took it as a trick que...

We don’t have to be historians or archaeologists or anthropologists or psychologists to know that the past has a grip on us. Almost everyone...

“I don’t understand you,” said Alice. “It’s dreadfully confusing!” “That’s the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly: “it alway...

One of the most critical (literary) devices for the émigré author is the act of remembering. For, much of the content of immigrant writing i...

South African writer J M Coetzee, winner of two Booker Prizes, makes no bones about it. Soon after winning his Nobel Prize in 2003, Coetzee,...

In the last thirty years, the contemporary Indian novelist (writing in English) isn’t the only one who has prospered. There have been others...

It’s interesting to note that although many Indian authors writing in English live in the UK, the US and Canada, their stories are mostly ab...

In one of my recent posts on the contemporary Indian novel, I had mentioned a point raised by Salman Rushdie. That of the tendency of Indian...

If you have read my previous posts on the contemporary Indian novel, you would have got the feeling that it is one which is necessarily writ...

I don’t understand it. In spite of V S Naipaul not having any good things to say about India, we are eager to embrace him as an Indian autho...

Salman Rushdie is the biggest name in contemporary Indian literature. Think of the Indian novel, or Indian writing in English, and ‘Rushdie’...

From the point of view of Indian writing in English, if there is anything unique or outstanding about the contemporary Indian novel, then, a...