Although India is noted as producing some of the best creative technologically-oriented talents in the world today, too few young professionals concentrate their education toward civil engineering. This bottlenecks the nation from realizing its full economic potential. India is challenged by inadequate roads, as well as an electric power system that creates the need for [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Gunjan
One of the great myths for foreign companies entering India, is that Indians speak English, just like them. The implication is that somehow foreign entrants will be able to perform in India with little adjustment to their good old (American, British, Australian, Canadian) ways. This myth hurts many executives. First of all, less than 15 [...]
Posted on August 18th, 2010 by Gunjan
Engineers in India, working for Indian and foreign companies, are starting to produce innovative products and technologies that have impact beyond its borders. One such development is a system that uses thermal sensors and algorithms to calculate the number of people entering a store at a given time and when they are likely to leave. [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Gunjan
India’s government officials are seeking the insight of several prestigious universities from the U.S. and U.K. as it works to establish the country’s first “innovation institutes”. This discussion was part of a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal. Plans include developing places of learning which [...]
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Gunjan
Writing for Forbes magazine, British Historian Paul Johnson predicts that due to its widespread use of English, India will overtake China and will continue to be a more vibrant supporter of Western liberal ideas. While I am an Indo-phile, I think that Johnson’s overreaching. I present you excerpts from his article below in blue . [...]
Posted on June 5th, 2010 by Gunjan
The Indian Institutes of Technology or IITs are the leading engineering schools in India and typically accept only 2 percent of all applicants. The government recently created 8 new IITs, mostly in greenfield projects. 450,000 high school grads took the famed Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in April, an 18.3 percent increase over the last year. [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Gunjan
There is much talk of the soft power of the BRIC Countries. While China is the most economically mighty about the BRIC and Russia probably still has the most military technology, there can be hardly any doubt that India is rapidly winning the soft power war among the BRIC countries. The India Expert rarely comments [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2010 by Gunjan
Doing Business in 21st Century India This course provides a basic understanding of how to succeed in doing business with India. It is suited for novices and experts in international business and highlights what is unique about India compared to other international venues, particularly China. Based on the noted book on the same topic, attendees [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2010 by Gunjan
When I teach my seminars on “Business with India” I am often asked how women should prepare for a work trip to India and how they should behave. Conflicting advice from well meaning Indian Americans makes matters worse for many first time travelers. I addressed this subject in my book “Doing Business in 21st Century [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Gunjan
This year, the U.S. Postal Service recognizes Mother Teresa, the India citizen who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun and honorary U.S. citizen, served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Gunjan
Growing up in north India, I was one of the few to attend a school with an American principal. I got to enjoy the prose of Mark Twain and the poetry of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman. Whitman did not make much sense to back then. But re-reading his work in my current context as [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Gunjan
NASA scientists working closely with the India’s space researchers have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, launched in October 2008 carried the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, M3 designed specifically to look for water. M3 was designed and built by a NASA team at the Jet Propulsion [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Gunjan
Delhi University, Pune University and five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are listed among the Top 100 universities in Asia as ranked by the latest QS Survey. The IITs are Bombay, Kanpur, Delhi, Madras and Roorkee. The two other IITs were ranked between 101 and 200, Kharagpur and Guwahati as was the University of Calcutta.
Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Gunjan
I was recently asked to moderate a discussion panel on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The occasion was the Global Alumni Meeting of the Indian Institutes of Technology (www.panIIT2008.org) and the keynote speaker of the day was Bob MacDonald the Chief Operating Officer of Procter & Gamble. My panel had an illustrious crew as well including the [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2009 by Gunjan
