The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 29, 2007

CHILDREN & PARENTING
Can successful executives raise high performing children?
Corporate India's executives wonder if they will succeed in raising their children to be as high performing as them and display it in their academic and career pursuits. Some even worry if their success and affluence has blunted their children's abil ity to become high performers. It is worth examining if there is any truth in this apprehension and anxiety. Many young children demonstrate an outstanding sense of responsibility. I think the ingredients are already there and only need to be k indled by parents. More

EDITORIAL
The bear hug
Initiatives in nuclear power, energy, and the rupee-rouble fund make the Russian President's India visit a success. More

ECONOMY
Of global climate change and power shift
Davos without snow would be like the Sahara without sun. When I drove up last weekend to the ski resort in the Swiss alps, this is what I saw. It finally snowed that night, blanketing the streets and surrounding mountains, and making the place ... More

Achieving growth and stability
With central bank independence intact More

POLITICS
US gets deeper into the Iraqi mire
It is said that a pathological gambler does not know when to stop. With every disaster, he keeps on raising the stakes with reckless abandon in the fond hope that somehow the tide can be reversed in his favour. ... More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Listening to Rupert Sheldrake
How would you react if I told you that I saw a film last week featuring a parrot with a vocabulary of 1,200 English words, and that it could sense a picture that its owner, a young woman, was looking at in a ... More

DISINVESTMENT
BUDGE EXPECTATIONS
Disinvestment: Issues and challenges
Budget 2007-08 must send clear signals about the government's intentions to reactivate PSU disinvestment. This is necessary not only to mobilise resources for various critical functions of the government but, more important, to accelerate the growth momentum. More

LETTERS

President's call

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