Base Ball: An American Craze There is only one way of putting it. Baseball is to America what cricket is to Indians. Yes, Americans sleep, eat and drink baseball. One might wonder what Americans like about a game the rest of the world finds slow moving at best. What it is about baseball that it is touted as America’s national pastime??? The baseball game is divided into nine periods of play,...

The Reliance Family Saga Reliance Industries, a Fortune 500 company, was created due to the brilliant visionary efforts of Dhirubhai Ambani, a poor, ill-educated man. Building a million-dollar company from scratch in the proverbial rags to riches way was the genius of Dhirubhai. Dhirubhai showed his entrepreneurial skills from the early age of sixteen when he sold “pakoras” to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends. Reliance Commercial Corporation was started...

The Bulls and The Bears A common myth is that the terms “bull market” and “bear market” originated from the way the two animals-the bulls and the bears attack a foe. A bear attacks by swiping its paws downward while a bull tosses its horns upward. Although this is a good mnemonic it is not the true origin of these terms. Long ago, “bear skin jobbers” were notorious for selling bear...

Microsoft’s Corporate Culture Corporate culture can be defined as the personality of an organization, or more simply put- the way things are done in that particular organization. Awareness of the company’s corporate culture is very important when applying for a job. Although there are other factors to consider like the job, the salary, the bonuses, the perks; it is becoming increasingly important to know how well the employee might fit into...

The Retail Industry Boom The last two decades have seen a global trend towards outsourcing. India has been the beneficiary of this trend because of it’s large youth population. Outsourcing of work to India has meant that not only do the youth have jobs but they have lucrative jobs as well. Wealth generated from outsourcing has played a significant part in the fueling of the spectacular rise of the world’s largest...

Poverty Leads to Crime Poverty shares an intimate connection with crime. Although it is true that all criminals are not poor and the poor are not all criminals, it is the likelihood of people living in poverty to commit crimes that brings up the correlation. The causes and effects of poverty are the determining factors that make poverty often resort to crime. The fact that whitest collared crime goes uninvestigated and...

Reservation: Does India Need It? Reservation in India owes its occurrence to the fact that the Government perceives citizens belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (the so called backward classes) as inadequately represented in government sere ices and institutions. Generally, caste serves as the main factor for Reservation in India, although sometimes other facts like religion also take part. The Mandal Commission put the last nail in the coffin by...

Oil Merchants of The Gulf The countries Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab. Emirates, and the Sultanate of Oman politically constitute the Gulf Cooperation Council which was constituted on 26th May 1961. The aim of this Council was to promote coordination among member oil merchant states in all areas to achieve unity. In 2006, the Persian Gulf countries produced about 28 percent of the world’s oil, while holding 55...