The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
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This morning, when I read the newspaper, the article written by Prof Rajendar Kachroo, father of late Aman Kachroo, brought tears in my eyes.
(Again now, when I am inserting this pic on my post, I am holding on to my tears. Afterall, a child is a child, yours or mine, how does it matter.)
Prof Kachroo is a father who lost his young son, a child who was bright, intelligent, healthy, with dreams in his eyes. A child who was beaten to death by the seniors of his college in the name of ragging in March 2009. This man (and his family) has lived on with this killing pain on his chest. He not just lives on but has made it his personal calling to eradicate the menace called ragging from Indian educational institutions.
Hats off to this gentleman, who, first of all, did not let his personal tragedy break him. He decided to fight against ragging.
Secondly, hats off to this father. I have respect for him especially because, ordinarily such an incident makes a person wallow in self pity, it makes us kind of closed, because we know we have lost what we had. So, many of us would have believed there is no point fighting for it. We tend to become self centred and we are, kind of, not bothered about any one’s else’s child. But this man, has transcended his grief and fought the system, represented in the judiciary by starting this civil reformist movement called Aman Movement so that our children feel safer in their colleges. I think its a magnanimous effort from his side. You can also join this movement. Please see amanmovement.org.
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The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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