Web of talent or of mediocrity?

Author Aldous Huxley once said that technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. He might have a point, especially when it comes to creativity. In an age, when the Internet has opened up a plethora of opportunities for content creation, has it also helped in subduing talent?


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A social investor's dilemna

The social investing sector in India is quite a nascent one.Not many are interested in investing in socially relevant projects and neither are government policies attuned towards facilitating foreign investors interested in providing funds to Indian projects. I recently spoke to Harold Rosen, formerly of the World Bank, who now heads the Grassroots Business Fund -- which is looking at investing in India -- about the problems faced by the sector.

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Should the cheetah make a comeback?

Almost sixty years after it disappeared from India, the cheetah is making a comeback. Union minister of state for environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh announced in parliament some time ago that his ministry was working on a plan to reintroduce the spotted cat which was hunted into extinction by 1947. But there's a long road ahead before this proposal fructifies into reality. Added to this is the debate whether there is any need to reintroduce the cheetah now and whether it would be done at the expense of resources allocated to save the tiger. I spoke with a few conservation experts -- those who love the cheetah as well as those who don't(which mainly includes those who love the tiger more!) on the whole debate.

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