Media freedoms must be responsible freedoms! We welcome the senior minister in Modi government for speaking out on certain sensitive issues like press freedoms. Our democracy today faces many challenges and distortions. Sometimes, it is small media that behaves responsibility. Big houses are driven by profit and so many distortions set in. Press freedoms must…
India’s external and internal problems
The image and realities of holding and exercising power As we write, it is the Indian Prime Minister’s 66th birthday! We join the millions of Indians to greet the Prime Minister for a happy return. The Prime Minister’s office under the Indian Constitution is a heavily-placed job. And in that sense Mr.Narendra Modi has a…
The autobiography of John Ruskin
How Britain didn’t understand Indian culture? Just by chance I looked at a weekly supplement of my favorite newspaper. It is all on Arts & Culture and carries two interview pages of leading cultural personages, classical dancers, musicians and theatre personalities. All of them engaged my thought for a while. All my favorites are here…
Some thoughts on…..
What future for specialised media? Development media, agri and rural media space? The famed Mumbai-based Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) completes 50 years, in fact, it was started earlier by the founder, the legendary Sachin Choudhury, in 1949,this August. We have a lot of association, long memories and many of our older associates and friends…
Doubling farmers’ incomes by 2022!
There is a new rural revolution! Internet consumers in rural India will simply explode! This will bring about a sea-change in the way rural consumers, why, even the producers to produce, to sell and buy through the new MNC food retail companies! Public sector vs. private sector! Welcome to MNC Food Retail investments! The government…
Indian polity!
Democratisation vs bureaucratisation! Individual liberty is the very soul of democracy Some critical emerging issues How the public perception and public opinion view the current developments. Lately, the Indian polity is marked by certain trends. The polity, our political system is a parliamentary democracy. Given the long history of democracy, from ancient times to the…
Innovation – Kolkata Schools
Guest Post By – Dr. Kaustav Bhattacharyya St.THOMAS SCHOOL ‘WE HAD BRITISH COUNCIL, WE HAD SHAKESPEARE….LEARNING ENGLISH IN KOLKATA’ For my generation who grew up in ‘Calcutta’ as opposed to Kolkata the city, had a certain sense of pride and belonging to the world of English ‘lettres’ using the word in the French sense where it…
BREXIT EXPOSES EU’S MORAL HYPOCRISY
Guest Post By – Dr. Kaustav Bhattacharyya FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE IS RESTRICTED! The worst nightmare has come true; Britain has voted to leave the EU or what’s known in common parlance as the Brexit in a widely attended referendum with a turnout higher than national elections with roughly 72pc and the verdict in favour…