Monday, July 28, 2008

WHEN PROTEGES OUTSMART THE MENTOR

One year after their launch, TIMES NOW and CNN-IBN zoom ahead...

For tennis fans across the world, the year 1991 will always be one full of pathos, a year in which an old war horse and a champion was nudged out by nimbler and more aggressive rivals. With a super human effort, the great Ivan Lendl managed to reach the final of the Australian Open, the 19th time Lendl made it to the final of a Grand Slam event. Fans who enjoyed his indomitable spirit, hard work and nerves of steel were hoping for a Lendl win. But German sensation Boris Becker defeated him 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Lendl lovers were heart-broken, for the man would never reach a Grand Slam final again as players like Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi simply outsmarted this ageing champion.

For tennis fans and couch potatoes who remembered 1991, December 24, 2007, provided a tingling sense of déjà vu as news channels started reporting the results of the Gujarat assembly elections. The man who can lay claim to be the father of psephology in Indian electoral politics was there as usual with the cherubic and sometimes comical Dorab Sopariwala. Prannoy was as usual at his suave best at the NDTV studio. But missing were Mahesh Rangarajan (the only man who correctly forecasted the election results) and Yogendra Yadav, who was sitting in another studio with Rajdeep Sardesai, analysing the results for CNN-IBN. And you had Arnab Goswami sitting in the Times Now studio in Mumbai, giving his now familiar ‘in your face’ take on the so-called ‘merchants of death’ elections.

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Source :
IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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