El Dia Que Me Quieras An old love song from Argentina and a film on Che The Witness “In a stable that stands almost in the shadow of the new stone church, a man with gray eyes and gray beard, lying amid the odor of the animals, humbly tries to will himself into death,…
Month: September 2025
E-governance: not the technology, stupid!
E-Governance:not the technology,stupid! Way to go about e-governance Mar 18 2009 Now is a unique opportunity in the history of India to leave behind the British Raj and re-engineer and modernise government processes to build a new India of the 21st century. Hence it is essential that we first redesign the government processes keeping…
Dreaming with the fishes
Malice in Blunderland “That rascal has no feelings.It is the secret of his success.Just as the fact that he thinks that other people have none either is the secret of his failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of life” Oscar Wilde One of Salman Rushdie’s characters was catapulted…
Cutting the Gordian Knot on Bad Loans
NPA is an emotional issue for every thinking Indian. NPAs or bad loans are taking away scarce funds from investments in education and healthcare, rural development and infrastructure. It is one of the biggest hurdles in the way of creating employment opportunities in a country which is releasing young people to the labour market at…
Creative destruction
Creative destruction Joe Schumpeter Up from the Ashes The Life and Thought of Joseph Schumpeter Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw in…
Corruption and whistleblowing
Corruption and whistleblowing Bureaucracy and whistleblowing From The Whistle (Newsletter of Whistleblowers Australia), January 1997, pp. 1-2. Brian Martin Not long ago I read a stimulating and disturbing book by Zygmunt Bauman entitled Modernity and the Holocaust. It is an analysis of the Holocaust — the mass extermination of Jews and other peoples by the Nazis — and how it…
Clean the viper’s nest page’s title
Clean the Viper’s nest Roopen Roy Published in mydigitalfc.com (http://www.mydigitalfc.com) Join hands to clean viper’s nest Dec 09 2008 We’re in the same boat brother, / We’re in the same boat brother, And if you shake one end, / You gonna rock the other / It’s the same boat brother…. The fear and shock of…
Catching chill
Davos on my mind:catching chill I am in Washington D.C. to speak at a World Bank conference. My first session is over and it is snowing here. I am told it is snowing heavily in Davos and people are develping cold feet and frost bite. In the good old days WEF used to be an…
Budget 2009
Thunderous silence on reforms The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was in an unenviable position this year when he crafted his budget proposals. The economic scenario was not great. From 12 quarters of 8% growth, the rate had plummeted to 5.8% and the fiscal deficit watermark had already reached 6.2%. If one reads between the lines…
Budget Predictions 2017
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