What we learn is what we earn!

The moon rose high in the sky again tonight and the mercury dipped too. Something did change however. The group experienced a long day of the last sessions including some very informative ones from Kevin Fitzgerald of CLA on the international copyright infrastructure and Nikhil Krishnamurthy of KLAW on the same topic but more from [...]

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The last lap!

I am still lagging a day in my posts. I think I have caught the bug here as well. The discussions, preparations etc. have seized me as much as the rest of the group here. Yesterday was a time for reflection. Prof. T. V. Rao, one of the best names in HR in this country [...]

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The after hours!

The past two days have had a strange intensity to them. As we all get into the rhythm of this place, we are also sort of losing sense of time here. I found it hard to realize the day or the date today while noting stuff down. This could either denote a lazy sleepy state [...]

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Give me more!

‘Is subah ki raat nahi’ (this morning doesn’t have a night!) declared Prof. Dixit in his opening speech when the programme began. Something we are all having a taste of here at IIMA. The second day still didn’t see any sleepy eyes although I heard major preparations in the group way beyond midnight on one [...]

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Back to school!

The air was a bit chilly last night here. And the moon almost full. A group of publishers were sipping tea outside the Seminar Room of the new campus of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. I managed to eavesdrop on some of the conversations and the gist of most was referring to the next [...]

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Crossing Currents: An Indian perspective on films, games and books

GLOBALOCAL 2011 – the two day conference aimed at professionals working across the content industry – Publishing, Printing, Digitization, Film, Music, Magazines and more. A roundup from Akshay Pathak, Director of the German Book Office New Delhi.

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GLOBALOCAL 2011 – that’s it?

The conference is over, our speakers are already home, and we will sum up all the great things we have learned for you soon. But what is coming next? First of all we want to ask Akshay Pathak, the Director of the German Book Office what he thinks about this year’s GLOBALOCAL event.

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