Business
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Will India inc hire gay Tim Cook post-377 verdict?
With Supreme Court of India decimalizing homosexuality in no uncertain terms on 6th September 2018, will companies include ‘sexuality’ as part of their diversity policy?
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Power Helped Women Change World Religions
Roughly 1500 years ago, femininity became a major force, not because men became enlightened, but because women secured positions of power.
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Misreading Gita As Motivation
The Bhagavad Gita is a philosophy being presented in the middle of a battleground.
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How conversation on food and food culture helps us connect with business partners
Food is one of the most powerful tool to discover how people imagine the world around them. It is a mirror of culture.
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Trishanku in America or those betwixt and between
Trishanku is a famous character in Hindu mythology who hangs upside down between heaven and earth, belonging nowhere.
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Marking your expiry date
Nothing lasts forever. We know that. Yet, culture is all about ‘built to last’.
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‘Lazy minds often confuse mythology with history’
In this interview with Latha Srinivasan, author Devdutt Pattanaik talks about the central role mythologies play in shaping societies, and how liberal values can be derived from tradition.
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Cultural leadership: hierarchy in the east and individualism in the west
A cultural understanding of leadership, an appreciation of cultural differences, work at a collective or statistical level, not at an individual level.
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How technology has turned the State into an all-powerful God
The only difference between Abrahamic religions and nation-state structure is that God is a supernatural entity established by faith in the former, while the state is an artificial structure established through reason in the latter.
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Video interview by The Hindu Business Line
Making of Devdutt Trivialising storytelling to mere entertainmnet Myth as subjective truth Cows and dogs Storytelling Younger Generations Generosity Sophistication of Epics My work as Chief Belief Officer On victims On inner and external landscape On undocumented stories How I…
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The Hindu concept of debt
This idea of a karmic balance sheet is not found in the Vedic period but emerges in the Upanishadic period, especially after the rise of monastic orders.
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A good leader is one who rules with a sense of detachment
A leader is appointed by the people, from the people, and for the people… However, his success depends on whether he is aligned to wisdom…
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Honour as value: A concept for people without much economic or political power
Like ‘honour’, ‘holiness’ is also a currency. Icons become holy. Teachers become holy and so everything they touch become holy.
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How India favoured the kshatriya feudalism to market-based economies of vaishya
The discomfort with all things associated with the market can be seen in India when holy men warn people not to be bhogi (seek satisfaction of desires), when desire for goods and services and ideas is what creates the market,…
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Why entrepreneurs are being viewed as social smugglers.
Nobility was linked to poverty and service. Those who sought to generate wealth were viewed as distorted by greed…
