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…
At the time of rapid urbanisation!
What chance for rural India and rural media, in particular? Agriculture never makes news! And all news today, urban news, right? Unless there is some disaster like farmers’ suicides or some natural disasters! How sad and how our own priorities of living are corrupted. Corrupted by whom? Our own politics and economics is one thing….
Prime Minister’s development priorities!
Development has many meanings! Prioritize the priorities! Infant mortality data must be updated and made available for the public. Public debate must go for some modern day thinking on what constitutes development and economic growth. Almost simultaneously. There can’t be excuses for any delay for all the states. So, let us have trust in what…
How the economy is doing?
India to import wheat this year! Farmer communications must become farmer-friendly. Key agri economic data! Inadequate! Wheat imports may surge to a decade-high! Is the Indian economy moving? Modi asks party workers to embrace new thinking, ideas. Fine, these are the very words that are headlined in a leading newspaper by Prime Minister Mr.Modi at the…
Talking democracy!
Democracy in the world today Indian democracy faces challenges, yes! Liberalism is spreading across Europe, says an FT report. What about India? Is liberalism a word understood or appreciated in India? Here are some thoughts. Freedom and democracy are the two words that had been with us for ages, from Greece to our own times….