Tag: Pm Modi

Afro-India: claiming the 21st century

Shared Dreams, Shared Destiny” screams the banner welcoming African delegates to the Third Indo-Africa Forum Summit. Forty heads of state are in attendance, along with dozens of ministers and 2,000 officials. Day one, Monday, got off to a shaky start. The press meet was termed a “damp squib” by one leading financial daily. Most delegations […]

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Soothe gussa fauji pensioners

photo credit: ex-servicemenwelfare.blogspot.com Ex-servicemen are angry that their attractively titled demand — one rank, one pension — is not being implemented by the government. OROP as a “brand” is a huge communication success, hitting all the right buttons — simplicity, easy comprehension and being evocative of equity. It is not surprising therefore that Prime Minister […]

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Only credible leaders can skill the youth

India produces around 1,600 films annually, which gross $2 billion on 2.6 billion tickets sold. Other revenues are additional.

Skilling is a public good but with strong private good characteristics.

Gajendra Chauhan President of FTII should have proved his support amongst the agitating students via a referendum like PM Tsipras did in Greece

The elephant in the room is getting the maximum bang for the buck. Spend on skilling should result in people getting employment.

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Indo-German Defence Pact- New beginnings for subaltern states.

(photo credit:www.junglekey.fr) Ursula Von Der Leyen, the scarily efficient and glamorous German Defence Minister, who is also incredibly mother to seven children, ticked all the required boxes for soaring rhetoric on a bilateral strategic partnership with India. Democracy, freedom, an open society, diversity and religious plurality being the ground for shared values. Of course, she […]

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Well run, PM Modi

(photo credit: http://www.iosipa.com) Reposted from the Asian Age May 25. 2015 < http://www.asianage.com/columnists/well-run-modi-690> Should it worry us that Modi sarkar resembles the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, the greatest long-distance runner ever and not Usain Bolt, the 100-metre thunderbolt from Jamaica? Not really. The 100-metre dash, whilst spectacular and crowd pulling, is a good tactic for disaster mitigation […]

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Telecom Service Providers: neutered by the “Indian” Spring

Photo credit: http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com) Netizens- citizens who participate in public debate from the comfort of their broadband enabled “home” space- are a furiously engaged and vocal lot in India. 800,000 of them voiced their support for the nebulous concept of “net neutrality” in an outpouring of outraged emotion, similar to the 2011 Arab Spring which put […]

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Selling spectrum: Telecom’s Kohinoor (Reposted by the author from http://swarajyamag.com/)

(Photo credit: http://www.intelligent-eneregy.com) Now that the Spectrum Big Bazaar auctions are over, it’s time to sift through the smoke and dust of the financial battle and figure out who lost and who won. But before the juicy part, here are the bare facts for those who don’t spend their lives following spectrum auctions. Limited spectrum […]

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