Dilip Cherian's Blog

Dilip Cherian Blog Dilip is considered India's foremost Image Management guru and resident iconoclast. He wavers between irrational exuberance and cataclysmic gloom but can be influenced at mail@dilipcherian.com

20 July 2009 ~ Comments Off on Not just a pebble

Not just a pebble

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Not just a pebble Wily netas can be made to declare details of their assets at election time, so why not my favourite tribesmen at promotion time? Even as the CIC is after judges to get them to declare their assets, a lawyer in Punjab has turned the RTI heat on IAS and IPS officers […]

17 July 2009 ~ Comments Off on CBI battles with a twin edged image sword

CBI battles with a twin edged image sword

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CBI battles with a twin edged image sword One of the mantras of having a good image is to do and be seen doing good things. Positive image will follow (but you do know that requires image management of course). Step one, is the track the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seems to have chosen […]

09 July 2009 ~ Comments Off on CEOs images and babus!

CEOs images and babus!

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CEOs images and babus! What does it do to the image of a government when it begins to look outside for talent? Probably good things. Or at least that is what Manmohan and his team are betting on. Suddenly, a scramble seems to be on, to get them in. And sensing this, corporate honchos across […]

07 July 2009 ~ Comments Off on Hail Salon well met or Confederacy of Felons?

Hail Salon well met or Confederacy of Felons?

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Hail Salon well met or Confederacy of Felons? Recession and slow down can give rise to devious ideas of revenue generation. Take the example of the much respected Washington Post which took a decision to organise events to network lobbyists, business leaders, government officials with Post correspondents. The stated purpose of this meet was to […]

03 July 2009 ~ Comments Off on Apologising doesn’t quite remove the Sting

Apologising doesn’t quite remove the Sting

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Apologising doesn’t quite remove the Sting The slogan on which the Congress won its last election was “Congress ke haath, Aam aadmi ke saath”. Perfect Relations, as most of you know already, had had its ‘hand’ embedded deep within that campaign. Ah, that victory, now seems so long ago. And even though this new Congress […]

25 June 2009 ~ Comments Off on Back to Friday night fever

Back to Friday night fever

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Back to Friday night fever Fearing that movie- buffs will lose the habit of visiting cinema halls to catch the movies, multiplexes and producers finally came to terms on a 50 per cent sharing model of their earnings as opposed to the previous 40 to 48 per cent granted to them by the multiplexes, depending […]

22 June 2009 ~ Comments Off on Home gets a makeover

Home gets a makeover

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Home gets a makeover The new home secretary G.K Pillai may have been cherry- picked for India’s most high pressure Home Ministry. But PC expects work from more than just the top guns. It’s not just long and regulated working hours under PC’s eagle eye that is troubling the Home babus. Apparently the minister is […]

01 June 2009 ~ Comments Off on Budget countdown

Budget countdown

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Budget countdown Pranab da is set to roll at North Block, but for some weeks now babus at the Finance ministry have already begun the exercise to enable the incoming government to present Budget 2009-10. While the rest of the nation was focused on polls, Revenue Secretary P.V. Bhide and his babus conferred with industry […]

26 May 2009 ~ Comments Off on CCI gets going

CCI gets going

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CCI gets going The wait is over. The fledgling Competition Commission of India (CCI) has finally got its full quota of members and it can be now hoped that the panel will be fully operational soon. Until a few months ago there was no word from the government on when it would operationalise the panel, […]

19 May 2009 ~ Comments Off on Hit and miss!

Hit and miss!

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Hit and miss! In the buzz that surrounds the Cannes film festival it would be easy to forget that since the screening of “Devdas” in 2002, it has been a no-show for Bollywood at the world’s most prestigious film festival. While India failed to find a place in the competition section, it nevertheless has kept […]

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