Guest post by Kaustav Bhattacharyya Recently I had the good fortune of serendipitously coming across a book chronicling the life, work, passions and oeuvre of the eminent film actor and cultural personality of the thespian Soumitra Chatterjee in a vintage bookstore titled ‘Soumitra Chatterjee: A life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry & Painting’ authored by the…
Category: People
Prof.Amartya Sen in the news!
Do you know for what reasons?In house plot ownership trouble!Let us appoint foreign faculty in Indian universities! Who doesn’t know Prof.Amartya Sen, the second Nobel Prize winner from that remote, desolate land of Santiniketan, which every Indian knows and feels proud of – as an innovative university founded by Rabindranath Tagore? The Nobel Laureate now…
Tatas’ Corporate Battles!
What chance for corporate governance in India? Role of Independent Directors falls flat! India is a poor country, we have to realise first. World bank, Tendulkar Committee Report and the subsequent Rangaran committee have also fixed poverty line in India fromRs.27.2(in 2009) to Rs.32.3(urban India),Rangarajan :Rs.32 to Rs.47 and the total number of poor resulting…
What is happening in Odisha state?
Rotten in the state of Denmark? Horror stories That is how one is tempted to ask when we read the continuous stories of human depravity, total loss of a sense of belonging and whether people there care to worry about their what is seemingly their daily on-going increased neglect of the people by the government…
What is happening in Odisha state?
Rotten in the state of Denmark? Horror stories! That is how one is tempted to ask when we read the continuous stories of human depravity, total loss of a sense of belonging and whether people there care to worry about their what is seemingly their daily on-going increased neglect of the people by the government…
Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine
A successful debut Indian poet would be deported. Is he one among the 40,000 skilled Indian workers? New UK immigrations rules to deport 40,000 Indians Skilled Indian workers to be sent home! See the irony of the Indo-British Empire and its twists and turns. Indian skilled workers range over a wider field of human skills….
Modi government in ten months!
Land acquisition bill deferred! Coal and mines bills passed! These are surprising wins for the government. Given the first flush of enthusiasm and Sonia Gandhi leading a delegation of 14 Opposition parties, the Rajya Sabha or rather the Rajya Sabha ‘managers’ succeeded in pushing through two crucial bills. It looks that given the time and…
A clash of new civilisations?
A new class of barbarians? The display of American brutality and barabarism? This is an education journal. Not any political or other public affairs journal. So, we have to look at the Indo-American diplomatic rupture over a young Indian Consul-General in New York subjected to public humiliation, an official who enjoys protection under the Vienna…