Patang on the blog by the same name disagrees. And in view of the recent hullaballoo about food prices and how more people eat more food, take a look at what he has to say:
Is money a store of value? Let me ask you - is a lakh of rupees a lot of money? Can [...]
Archive for the 'Development' Category
The free market shall fix everything
Published by May 6th, 2008 in Capitalism, Development, Economy, Energy, Geopolitics and Government. 0 CommentsGM mosquitoes and ‘their’ policy making
Published by May 2nd, 2008 in Development, Economy, Environment, Government, Health, India, Policy and Poverty. 0 CommentsPrasanth at ‘The Daily Pheesh’ expresses skepticism (informed) at the eradication of diseases through GM (genetically modified) mosquitoes.
GM mosquitoes may be useful or harmful but one cannot deny that their introduction is nothing but a stopgap response to mistakes that were committed much earlier—failures in planning and managing cities, failures in taking health care to rural areas and [...]
What destiny a daughter fulfilled
Published by April 28th, 2008 in Development, Feminism, Fiction, Prejudice, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsDr. Motion pens a beautiful story that ends thus:
You are lucky that times have changed, your mother was not fortunate enough to follow her heart.
Don’t worry, I haven’t really given the ending away. Please read it.
The sands of time
Published by April 11th, 2008 in Culture, Development, Globalisation, Indiaspora, Photoblog, Society and Travel. 0 CommentsMala visited Kolkata recently, for her vacation. In a very detailed post, she sketches the changes she perceived in the city, and also portrays how she (and her own life) might have changed in the perception of those at home:
Its always a treat catching up with everyones lives. There is one thing in common between [...]
Science, State, Market, Society, Caste, Gender…
Published by April 1st, 2008 in Capitalism, Caste, Development, Economy, Policy, Poverty, Science & Technology and Society. 0 CommentsMelkote attends a talk titled ‘Science, State, Market, Society and Ecology’ and thinks: ‘the problem with science and technology in India seems to be that their main focus is either the State or the Market’.
The market angle is even more apparent: our best minds working to solve problems which will make sharper videos, clearer sound, [...]
6th CPC: Private sector v/s public sector
Published by March 30th, 2008 in Development, Economy, Government and India. 0 CommentsGlowfriend is doing a series of posts on the Sixth Central Pay Commission Report. This post deals with public v/s private sector jobs.
The biggest advantage offered by a Government job is the job security attached to it and the assured retirement benefits. Commission has attempted to make the retirement benefits more attractive. It has [...]
A walk down the Red Corridor
Published by March 30th, 2008 in Activism, Capitalism, Democracy, Development, Economy, Human Rights, India, Policy, Politics, Poverty and South Asia. 0 CommentsFire on the Mountain has been posting a series of in-depth interviews with revolutionaries from South Asia. The interviews, it appears, were conducted by the Norwegian Revolutionary Socialist party (Red!) for their party magazine. The first of the interviews, with G.N.Saibaba, Deputy Secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), an All Indian Federation of [...]
Trivandrum - raising development
Published by March 28th, 2008 in Development, Education, Globalisation and Policy. 1 CommentNow that its summer vacation, everyone is posting about the city. And summer vacation is afterall about wish-lists, nostalgia and planning to have a nice time.
Ajay at TvmRising does an incisive analysis of the Singapore model and lays out a way forward for urban development in Trivandrum using its strategic location like Singapore.
In the 1950s [...]
Poverty is a political issue
Published by March 27th, 2008 in Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Development, Economy, Human Rights, Policy, Politics, Poverty and Religion. 0 CommentsAnalysing a paper published in the Economic and Political Weekly, John Samuel suggests poverty isn’t just about incomes, it is also about identities :
The notion of impoverisation (or the process of the active creation of poverty with in society or economy) needs to be seen in the context of social, economic and political inequality. Such [...]
Naxalism and conventional politics
Published by March 18th, 2008 in Adivasi, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Government, Human Rights, Justice, Policy, Politics and Poverty. 0 CommentsGautam Sen says he doesn’t support Naxalism but he doesn’t seem to believe in the efficacy of ‘conventional politics’ either:
Despite these differences, my answer to my brother’s imprisonment is not the advocacy of violence. It is a waning and tenuous hope that perhaps the system does work, as Pai thinks it does. Perhaps my brother [...]
Why outsourcing is bad for India.
Published by March 14th, 2008 in Business, Development, Economy, Education and Society. 1 CommentAnandanubhava on why he thinks that outsourcing is doing India more harm than good.
…this is a deadly, dangerous trend developing in India. Take for instance the incentives that Government gives to attract talent for its defense, military, space and other internal work. For a hugely qualified individual, this amounts to a fraction of what a [...]
In democracy, there is hope
Published by March 11th, 2008 in Community, Culture, Democracy, Development, Economy, Government, History, India, North East, Personal and Politics. 1 CommentRelating four stories of people he spoke to, Mishti believes there is hope for the country, if the NDA Government comes back to power.
For the sake of the aam aadmi, for the sake of the immigrant workers in Mumbai, for the sake of our highways, for the sake of our pride as Indians, for [...]
Celebrating Women’s Day
Published by March 8th, 2008 in Community, Culture, Development, Feminism, India and Women. 0 CommentsA brief round-up of blogger posts on Women’s Day, which is being celebrated today.
Chandni introspects on feminism, following the recent controversy in our blogosphere over the role of women, and questions female chauvinism.
Coming to the fundas of women’s emancipation, feminism and equality…how come this issue reeks of some sort of female chauvinism?How come women are [...]
G V Krishnan feels that Hertz self-drive cars may work in the West, but not in India.
“BIAL does see a demand for self-drive cars at the airport,” says CEO Albert Brunner. Wonder which class of people he has in mind. Senior executives who are entitled to the company car and driver? Or visiting company clients? [...]
Ready to buy the new Tata Nano?
Published by March 5th, 2008 in Development, Economy, Energy, Environment, India and Spotlight Series. 4 Comments[ This is Essay # 23 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Ready to buy the new Tata Nano?
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Sharique Ahmed
Tata Nano is, without even a shadow of doubt, the most eagerly awaited car in India. The attention it drew in the recently concluded Auto Expo 2008, was tremendous by any standard. I reached [...]
Indicorps Fellowships
Published by March 2nd, 2008 in Activism, Announcement and Development. 6 CommentsBlogbharti received a message from Shilpa Shah, of Indicorps, announcing Fellowships for ‘aspiring young leaders’ to work on public service projects. Here’s the gist:
Indicorps, a non-profit organization that offers opportunities for aspiring young leaders of Indian-origin to engage in intense grassroots development projects through one or two-year public service fellowships. We are currently recruiting soon-to-be [...]
Budget 2008
Published by March 1st, 2008 in Business, Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Health, India, Policy, Politics and Regulation. 0 CommentsJagdish Madan in a pre-budget summing up of the economic and political situation in the country, looks at some crucial issues:
…rural employment plan, which guarantees 100 days of work for one person in every poor household, was the priority of the government. The plan was the government’s attempt to address some of the countryside’s biggest [...]
A Buffettology session
Published by February 28th, 2008 in Business, Capitalism, Development, Economy and Education. 0 CommentsAn exception worth making. This link has nothing to do with India and the blogger isn’t Indian either. But Warren Buffett has many admirers in India, from soon-to-be investors to market veterans. With the Sensex and Nifty now almost household names, it’s always good to get gyaan from the Oracle of Omaha.
Blogger Dang Le provides [...]
The Growth ‘Miracle’
Published by February 27th, 2008 in Development, Economy, Education, History, Policy, Spotlight Series and Theory. 0 Comments[ This is Essay # 20 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
The Growth ‘Miracle’
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Shromon Das
‘Growth’ is an issue that gains importance in almost any context; firms worrying about business growth, teenagers worrying about how tall they can grow, and of course, economists worrying about economic growth. One of the most fascinating case [...]
Another Betrayal of the Rural Poor?
Published by February 26th, 2008 in Caste, Dalit, Development, Economy, India and Poverty. 0 CommentsVB Rawat writes on the UPA’s flagship package for rural India, the NREGS, that seems to be floundering, as in this UP village.
Meanwhile, Rupchandrapur people are wondering whether they will be able to get their total amount or not. If for 14 days of work, an individual get Rs 400/- as per calculation of the [...]
Whither Prosperity?
Published by February 26th, 2008 in Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Geopolitics, Globalisation, Government, India, Indiaspora, Policy, Poverty and South Asia. 1 CommentUnable to defend himself from a Singaporean hotelier’s comments, Swaroop seeks out answers at Churumuri. Illustrating with real examples, he rakes up enormous dirt on a gamut of issues.
Education. Immigration. Public Safety. Harassment. Rowdyism and brawn. Health services. Bribery. Brain drain.
He concludes his comparison of India to Singapore (unthinkable by size, but still) with an interesting analogy to claims [...]
Blaming Capitalism
Published by February 25th, 2008 in Capitalism, Democracy, Development, Economy, Media and Policy. 1 CommentRohit reacts to an article in Economic and Political Weekly:
One of the constant themes of public debate in India is to link the post 1991 reforms to problems faced by the Indian society. According to this intellectually lazy line of thinking, capitalism is responsible for all of India’s social and economic challenges. That despite reforms, [...]
Discarding the medium of our heritage
Published by February 23rd, 2008 in Culture, Development, India and Language. 7 CommentsIndiatime expresses concern at how Sanskrit has been discarded in India.
Although most Indians speak at least 2 languages, and many speak more than 3 or 4 fairly fluently, India has still managed to lose its most precious language, the language that was the origin of most of the Indian languages, and the language that Hinduism’s [...]
Delhi’s BRTS controversy
Published by February 23rd, 2008 in Development, Government and India. 5 CommentsDelhi’s Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) has come under fire.
Mitali points out a problem
But the real beauty of the provider-consumer relationship lies in the Bus Rapid Transit system. Here, bus stops placed in the middle lanes of the road allow people to alight and have to cross other traffic to get to the sides [...]
Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?
Published by February 22nd, 2008 in Adivasi, Business, Caste, Community, Culture, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Environment, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Poverty and Spotlight Series. 7 Comments[ This is Essay # 18 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?
Theory and Practice in a Liberal Democracy
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Rahul Banerjee
Over the past two years or so the normally un-newsworthy rural poor in India have time and again made the headlines with their vehement opposition to the forced acquisition [...]
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