http://www.livemint.com/SectionPages/Kalita.aspx?NavId=88&NavsId=93 Kalita- Livemint.com | © CopyRight HT Media Ltd. 2009 en-Us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:57:40 GMT 60 http://www.livemint.com/ http://www.livemint.com/Images/livemintbeta_rss.gif 144 33 http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/31201535/From-India-back-to-the-US.html We have little in common, little to say, and yet I fear the day when my offspring and theirs will no longer feel connected to a place like this, or even to each other Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:27:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/31201535/From-India-back-to-the-US.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/04225243/A-test-for-democracy.html The attacks in Assam triggered a small-scale, small-town version of what the country saw after Mumbai Wider Angle | S Mitra Kalita Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:41:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/04225243/A-test-for-democracy.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/18210402/Beyond-the-usual-suspects.html If Microsoft Word is the extent of the computer literacy on your resume, then trouble looms Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:36:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/18210402/Beyond-the-usual-suspects.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/11/20221615/Home-bittersweet-home.html Here I am to volunteer in Guwahati for the next few months, embarking on my dream of bringing efficiency, transparency, good work habits Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:46:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/11/20221615/Home-bittersweet-home.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/11/06221834/So-hi-hi-bigger-American-pie.html I never thought I’d see a black man as President. But I also never thought I’d see the US enter a period of decline Wider Angle | S. Mitra Kalita Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:48:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/11/06221834/So-hi-hi-bigger-American-pie.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/23222631/A-good-time-to-fix-banks.html The state-run banks that were seen as sleepy, bureaucratic and prehistoric are the ones that the newer entrants might model to get service right Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:56:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/23222631/A-good-time-to-fix-banks.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/16220923/Sometimes-rites-are-wrong.html This time of year raises lots of questions for the level of religiousness we wish to espouse, personally, privately, publicly Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:39:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/16220923/Sometimes-rites-are-wrong.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/09234547/The-office-lift-as-leveller.html The lift industry in India has grown 20-25% over the last four years Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:15:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/09234547/The-office-lift-as-leveller.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/02233926/The-decline-of-America.html Something shocking has happened these last few days -- Americans are talking about their own decline Wider Angle | S. Mitra Kalita Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:09:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/02233926/The-decline-of-America.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/25220504/The-great-consumer-divide.html A great divide marks the lives we customers lead and those of the workers serving us Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:35:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/25220504/The-great-consumer-divide.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/18232555/Even-magic-bricks-crumble.html The last time DDA announced such a housing scheme in 2006, it received some 200,000 applications for 3,000 houses. How did that number grow fivefold? Easy money Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:55:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/18232555/Even-magic-bricks-crumble.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/11215503/When-girl-power-grows-up.html Mayawati is the epitome of how going “masculine” can help a woman get what she wants Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/11215503/When-girl-power-grows-up.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/04231450/Forget-jobs-find-purpose.html I believe in lifelong learning and not spending on learning that does not work and actually keeps one from working Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:44:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/04231450/Forget-jobs-find-purpose.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/28221402/Please-Airtel-Hear-My-Call.html Merely complaining about the sorry state of customer care in India will not solve much Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/28221402/Please-Airtel-Hear-My-Call.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/21230947/New-marketing-in-Kashmir.html If it is still serious about preserving borders, the Union government needs to dim its patriotic pitch and replace the spiritual sadhu with a good marketing guru instead Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:39:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/21230947/New-marketing-in-Kashmir.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/14230510/If-I-Were-Prime-Minister.html I dedicate these words not to the two-thirds of the nation I usually pander to — farmers — but the other two-thirds: our nation’s youth Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:35:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/14230510/If-I-Were-Prime-Minister.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/07223708/Memo-to-coddled-workers.html Transportation to the office from strategic points around the city will continue but the latest Hollywood releases will no longer be played on your morning commutes, nor the latest Bollywood on the evening ride Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:07:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/07223708/Memo-to-coddled-workers.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/31221608/Last-lectures-to-remember.html In the final class, the best teachers take accrued course material and relate it to concepts such as meaning of life Wider Angle | S. Mitra Kalita Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:46:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/31221608/Last-lectures-to-remember.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/24221212/Searching-for-India8217s-Ob.html I waited and waited for the new dynamism all the world reported Rahul Gandhi would display Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:28:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/24221212/Searching-for-India8217s-Ob.html http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/17223651/Faraway-airports-fly-by-me.html New airports bring new dreams, as the folks at Bangalore International Airport Ltd — led by Siemens AG — have asked us to believe Wider Angle | S.Mitra Kalita Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:14:00 GMT http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/17223651/Faraway-airports-fly-by-me.html