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(Was written on March 13, 2021) I called Prasantada in Nebraska. He was busy finishing his new book : India after Modi. The book was due for publication in 2019 but unfortunately Modiji returned to power taking the wind out of this book’s sale (no spelling error). “What’s going on in my favorite West Bengal?…

Written on 24th January 2018 Professor Prasanta -da (PD)was invited by Ghanashyam Goswami Memorial Foundation to deliver a keynote address on Keynesian Economics , Tantric Buddhism and the Tolerant Traditions of Santana Dhamma. The winter birds usually return by end of January and he is booked on the 30th flight back. He is headed for…

Towards the end of 2001, a US headquartered PC manufacturing company invited four consultants from four different companies to a resort hotel in Penang. I was one of them. Two others were from strategy consulting firms and one of them was a technology analyst. After breakfast, we were sworn to secrecy. We signed a non-disclosure…

সাধে কি ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র গুপ্ত বলেছিলেন : “এতো ভঙ্গ বঙ্গদেশ,তবু রঙ্গে ভরা !” এ দেশে রঙ্গের শেষ নেই ! আর বিভাজনের অন্ত নেই । স্বাধীন বাংলার শেষ নবাব সিরাজদ্দৌল্লা শচীন্দ্রনাথ সেনগুপ্ত রচিত নাটকে আবেগভরে বলেছিলেন : “বাংলার ভাগ্যাকাশে আজ দুর্যোগের ঘনঘটা, তার শ্যামল প্রান্তরে আজ রক্তের আলপনা, জাতির সৌভাগ্য-সূর্য আজ অস্তাচলগামী; শুধু সুপ্ত সন্তান-শিয়রে রুদ্যমানা জননী…

(I had signed up to write 52 fortnightly pieces for the Financial Chronicle. Ernest Hemingway wrote a memoir about his life as a struggling writer in Paris. These memoirs were published as a book with the title “A Moveable Feast” inspired by a letter he wrote to a friend: “If you are lucky enough to…

In 1998 the public accounting world was shaken by the news of a merger of two global firms Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand. The firms were of similar size. Price Waterhouse had more blue chip clients and a larger global consulting practice but their global footprints were similar. Whenever there is a merger between…

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal on 6th November 2000 when Jyoti Basu stepped down. The transition was well- orchestrated. The younger party leaders were worried that Jyoti Basu was not only saddled with the problems of incumbency, there were also allegations of nepotism. Because strikes and flight of capital, the industrial…