This week in Cut to the Chase we chat with Ste Drayton, Chief Digital Officer at Watch Me Think, a UK-based start-up. Ste was earlier with WWF’s global HQ in Switzerland, where he worked for 14 years, leaving in 2011 when Head of Online.If you have aspirations of employment or entrepreneurship in the digital space, this interview is for you. http://bit.ly/stedrayton

This week in Cut to the Chase we have a very special treat for Bollywood fans - a career counselling tête-à-tête with filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee.Two times winner of the National Award for his movies, Khosla ka Ghosla and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! his advice for aspiring filmmakers - “It is my belief that to become a good filmmaker, you have to be a good reader, you have to be a good traveller, you have to…

In Cut to the Chase, our weekly interview series with professionals about how youngsters aspiring for that profession can better prepare for it and the promise that profession holds, this week we chat with Amit Chaudhuri, a multiple award-winning writer (that includes the Sahitya Akademi award) and a well-known favourite on the critics’ choice circuit (he often sits on Man Booker panels), Amit has been acclaimed by the likes of Guardian, The Village Voice, The…

Adolescence, which starts at the onset of puberty and is now considered to go on till mid 20s, is usually considered a potentially troublesome age. Research bears this out - reckless driving, social media indiscretion, dangerous YOLO dares, crime, binge drinking, unintended pregnancies, attempted suicides and drug abuse incidence can all happen at this age. Everyone concerned is happy if the adolescent makes it through unscathed!No doubt adolescence is a period of vulnerability but it…

In our weekly interview series, Cut to the Chase, where we chat with Professionals at the Peak of their Game on what advice they have for young people, this week we are in conversation with Prof M.M. Pant, a master of many disciplines - a physicist who taught at IIT Kanpur, former Director of Computing and Pro Vice-Chancellor at IGNOU, a CEO and a lawyer! An evangeliser of new education models using emerging technologies and…