February 22nd, 2010The Cinderella Makeover

A dear friend of mine who runs a boutique reputation management firm sent me a thought-provoking article. She found it so interesting that she actually typed it and sent it out to her friends. To protect her privacy, I am going to keep her identity a secret.

Since she found it so beautiful, I thought I would share this with all of you as this piece breaks some ‘stereotypes’ and Reputare is all about understanding stereotypes as the heart of the discipline of public relations. It’s also a subject that would touch you in some way, someday..in the past or in the future.

Since this came typed to me, I claim no intellectual ownership of this content as my original creation. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have.

THE CINDERELLA MAKEOVER

Is there any space for fairytale romances in love and relationships today? Absolutely. Only the rules have changed ….

As women, we have all grown up with the “Once Upon a time” fairytale. You know the one : “Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a Click to Read More

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The Hindustan Times on the front page carried the story of fresh FIRs being filed in the Ruchika Girhotra’s case. The second headline read: 19 Years later charges say Rathore hid evidence, tormented girl’s brother.

It’s not that CBI has had a change of heart or unearthed new evidence or been provided new facts to base its case against Rathore. So what’s changed in the last few weeks after the court pronounced a minor fine and a six month jail term for a person who had tormented a girl to commit suicide and drove her family away from their home in Panchkula.

The answer is in the third part of the same HT story in the box titled “When Public Pressure Worked”. It goes to list the cases of Jessica Lall, Nitish Katara and Priyadarshini Mattoo, who were initially denied justice as the culprits had political clout, money and power to subvert the judicial system. However, the public pressure that was Click to Read More

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