Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Us people

  • Old man time,

    I am the old man by the river, if you think I am someone’s grandfather, or the village elder, I could be, but more important, I am the keeper of a memory of people and communities, “stories have changed my dear boy,” I told the man in the grey suit, “there are no more battles…

  • The rot within.

    Here we are watching the news 20 children in Bihar died of poisoning. Amidst this tragedy what we neglect to see is the greater tragedy at on end we see children with up end mobiles, and play station  here are kids for whom a morsel of mid meal means a relief to their parents. But…

  • about Nationalism

    Modi talks about being a Hindu Nationalist, logic being he is a nationalist yet a practising Hindu. Let’s not discuss about who is a Hindu. Digvijaya says he should say Indian Nationalist. Digvijay is of course known to suffer from Footinthemouth disease though of milder degree than Ms.Jaya Bacchan. We talk of religion and the…

  • punching the PMRF

    The headlines today declared alterations between the PMO and RTI with the bone of contention being the PMRF. Here is what I could gather. The prime mister’s relief fund was set up by Pt.Jawaharlal Nehru in 1948 to assist people displaced from Pakistan. It is now used to render immediate relief to families of those…

  • Roll to Rajasthan

    Franklin Templeton Investmentspartnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Dn868I8RQ#at=370 listening to Cynthia passionately dedicated to the cause of water management. I am impressed. I am also taken back to the days of seventies, when we went to our mother’s  ancestral village for our summer sojourn  water was an issue, of course we kids never…

  • entrepreneur

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1iWhljEbTE Franklin Templeton Investmentspartnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012. What makes an entrepreneur? In his book innovation and entrepreneurship: Practise and principles Peter.F.Drucker says, entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory see change as normal as indeed as healthy and it sees the major task in society and especially in…