Category: Us people

  • 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…

  • anchoring the wanderer.

    If Newton never told anybody about the law of gravity, if Edison would have only lit his own house, the world would have remained untouched by their brilliant ideas and minds. If Mittal Patel had not brought the plight of the nomads the 8 -10% of our population we they would exist as another exploited…

  • international drug abuse and illicit trafficking day.

    June 26th, the international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking. Just in case you think this is another holiday, sorry it is not, today is a day that documents two of human shames, UNODC has decided to work strengthen their legal and technical capacities to prevent and stop the trafficking of people, drugs natural…