The camera isn’t my best friend. Not yet anyway… It behaves more like a woman I know, not intimately, but like I know her from somewhere… maybe our eyes met at the club or the library a few times, and then the briefest of hellos on a few others. We touched, shook hands and then we danced. She didn’t move the way I wanted her to, nor did I lead like she would have liked me to. But did we want to meet again? You bet we did..
Thursday, 26 April 2012
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: RIGHT TO ABUSE!
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: RIGHT TO ABUSE!:
Recent incidents of murders of RTI activists are a case in point. The very fact that they were investigation projects that were webbed with corruption, echoes the fact that corruption invariably leads to human right abuse. A couple of months back, two RTI activists named Niyamat Ansari and Mangalaram were killed. Talking about basics of a dignified life, corruption in employment generation programs like NREGA, has led to deaths of millions and have also forced thousands of families to resort to criminal activities (ranging from robbery to child labour to sex trade) for survival. There has been myriad of cases where adulteration in food meant for poor and counterfeit and spurious medicines keeps killing the poor and vulnerable. And not to forget deaths caused by poisonous and adulterated country made liquor, which are almost like an everyday affair. Similarly, stocking of grains and not provisioning the same for the hungry, robs right to food and eventually right to life and right against exploitation.
Passionate About India: Authoritarian leadership, the secret behind Steve ...
Passionate About India: Authoritarian leadership, the secret behind Steve ...:
If you believe that I have tumbled over the edge and am referring back to the days of Theory X management – which used to be ruthlessly applied in the early stages of industrialization when coal mining used to be the key industry – well, it almost is so. The only difference is that technology has made today’s autocratic leadership look very savvy! The best of corporations today have the same lack of trust in their employees’ sincerity levels as they used to have years back in the coal mines. But today, they never really exhibit it vocally. Instead, we have automated processes which leave no option for an employee to work as per his personal preferences.
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/authoritarian-leadership-secret-behind.html
If you believe that I have tumbled over the edge and am referring back to the days of Theory X management – which used to be ruthlessly applied in the early stages of industrialization when coal mining used to be the key industry – well, it almost is so. The only difference is that technology has made today’s autocratic leadership look very savvy! The best of corporations today have the same lack of trust in their employees’ sincerity levels as they used to have years back in the coal mines. But today, they never really exhibit it vocally. Instead, we have automated processes which leave no option for an employee to work as per his personal preferences.
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/authoritarian-leadership-secret-behind.html
Thursday, 19 April 2012
All About Business Strategy... Well, Almost...: THE WIZARD OF ‘WOZ’
All About Business Strategy... Well, Almost...: THE WIZARD OF ‘WOZ’:
Over the time that I researched him, Woz’s answers to my queries made me realize that behind the geek who was technically ‘the’ creator of Apple’s computers during the 1970s and 1980s, lies a legendary entrepreneur who doesn’t like hogging the limelight. He never did. And from Woz, what I believe is the primary CEO-nurturing lesson that true entrepreneurs of the modern age should internalize is – encourage and spearhead the ideation processes and initial stages of product-making, and once you’ve found your optimally utopian CEO (or one who comes closest to that), give complete independence to your CEO to finally shape, market and sell the produce. Even if you’re gone tomorrow, your CEO and his successors should be trained well to adopt the company as his and take it forward responsibly – with shareholders to serve. Shy but determined, Woz was a creator of many-a-marvel, and the independence that he gave Jobs in executing the selling and marketing strategies is what I believe gave the primary cementing foundation to Jobs’ character and in Jobs becoming the greatest marketer and CEO in the world. And this effect had started much before Apple was even born (to be precise, five years before, with the invention of the ‘Blue Box’ – an instrument to make free calls – which these two tech wizards made; I’ve given more details later).
Read more: http://a--sandeep.blogspot.in/2012/04/wizard-of-woz.html
Over the time that I researched him, Woz’s answers to my queries made me realize that behind the geek who was technically ‘the’ creator of Apple’s computers during the 1970s and 1980s, lies a legendary entrepreneur who doesn’t like hogging the limelight. He never did. And from Woz, what I believe is the primary CEO-nurturing lesson that true entrepreneurs of the modern age should internalize is – encourage and spearhead the ideation processes and initial stages of product-making, and once you’ve found your optimally utopian CEO (or one who comes closest to that), give complete independence to your CEO to finally shape, market and sell the produce. Even if you’re gone tomorrow, your CEO and his successors should be trained well to adopt the company as his and take it forward responsibly – with shareholders to serve. Shy but determined, Woz was a creator of many-a-marvel, and the independence that he gave Jobs in executing the selling and marketing strategies is what I believe gave the primary cementing foundation to Jobs’ character and in Jobs becoming the greatest marketer and CEO in the world. And this effect had started much before Apple was even born (to be precise, five years before, with the invention of the ‘Blue Box’ – an instrument to make free calls – which these two tech wizards made; I’ve given more details later).
Read more: http://a--sandeep.blogspot.in/2012/04/wizard-of-woz.html
Typos: AN ARK, AT SEA
Typos: AN ARK, AT SEA:
Khaled had news for me. China wasn’t the big bad boy of conservation anymore. “The Chinese are really serious about conservation now. They have banned the trade in animal parts. Tiger farms-where tigers were bred in cages like goats to feed the once burgeoning traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) market- that were once widespread are now few and far between. And the Chinese government is taking active interest in international conservation policy development as well as conducting raids that are resulting in significant seizures of wildlife parts.” That was a very big step in the right direction. China had been the prime market for everything from tiger bones and ivory to bear bile and shark fins. Reduced demand from China ought to result in a significant drop in poaching for these products.
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/04/ark-at-sea.html
Khaled had news for me. China wasn’t the big bad boy of conservation anymore. “The Chinese are really serious about conservation now. They have banned the trade in animal parts. Tiger farms-where tigers were bred in cages like goats to feed the once burgeoning traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) market- that were once widespread are now few and far between. And the Chinese government is taking active interest in international conservation policy development as well as conducting raids that are resulting in significant seizures of wildlife parts.” That was a very big step in the right direction. China had been the prime market for everything from tiger bones and ivory to bear bile and shark fins. Reduced demand from China ought to result in a significant drop in poaching for these products.
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/04/ark-at-sea.html
Business is Marketing: LOOK WHAT A GOOD IDEA CAN DO!
Business is Marketing: LOOK WHAT A GOOD IDEA CAN DO!:
This Sunday (April 8), a small company changed its fortunes forever. Instagram was started two years ago, but this Sunday, it became more valuable than even The New York Times. The reason being Facebook acquired it for $1 billion few days back; causing quite a flutter among industry watchers. Why did it invest so much in a company, which hardly made any profits, is a fresh start up, and to top it all, is just an ‘app developer’ and its claim to fame is a ‘photo-sharing’ application that it developed for the iPhone? Add to this the fact that it does not even have a website to call its own, for all its features are designed for the mobile phone.
Read more: http://rajitachaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/look-what-good-idea-can-do.html
This Sunday (April 8), a small company changed its fortunes forever. Instagram was started two years ago, but this Sunday, it became more valuable than even The New York Times. The reason being Facebook acquired it for $1 billion few days back; causing quite a flutter among industry watchers. Why did it invest so much in a company, which hardly made any profits, is a fresh start up, and to top it all, is just an ‘app developer’ and its claim to fame is a ‘photo-sharing’ application that it developed for the iPhone? Add to this the fact that it does not even have a website to call its own, for all its features are designed for the mobile phone.
Read more: http://rajitachaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/look-what-good-idea-can-do.html
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: ASSISTANCE TO FEW, AID TO ALL
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: ASSISTANCE TO FEW, AID TO ALL:
Embezzlement of funds which are meant for poor in itself is a big crime and if it is to do with international aid then it is a huge erosion of trust at the global level. Moreover, since these aid/assistance are announced for a specific purpose and for specific time period, corruption at any level fundamentally defeats the very purpose. For instance, Tsunami funds that were poured in India from numerous sources, finally exposed in being misused which eventually killed millions of hopes and thousands of lives. Same goes for almost all developmental aid be it for education, health, AIDS or malaria. And above all, such act comes at a huge cost and for us it has been a bulwark of embarrassment at a global level.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/04/assistance-to-few-aid-to-all.html
Embezzlement of funds which are meant for poor in itself is a big crime and if it is to do with international aid then it is a huge erosion of trust at the global level. Moreover, since these aid/assistance are announced for a specific purpose and for specific time period, corruption at any level fundamentally defeats the very purpose. For instance, Tsunami funds that were poured in India from numerous sources, finally exposed in being misused which eventually killed millions of hopes and thousands of lives. Same goes for almost all developmental aid be it for education, health, AIDS or malaria. And above all, such act comes at a huge cost and for us it has been a bulwark of embarrassment at a global level.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/04/assistance-to-few-aid-to-all.html
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: ASSISTANCE TO FEW, AID TO ALL
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: ASSISTANCE TO FEW, AID TO ALL:
Embezzlement of funds which are meant for poor in itself is a big crime and if it is to do with international aid then it is a huge erosion of trust at the global level. Moreover, since these aid/assistance are announced for a specific purpose and for specific time period, corruption at any level fundamentally defeats the very purpose. For instance, Tsunami funds that were poured in India from numerous sources, finally exposed in being misused which eventually killed millions of hopes and thousands of lives. Same goes for almost all developmental aid be it for education, health, AIDS or malaria. And above all, such act comes at a huge cost and for us it has been a bulwark of embarrassment at a global level.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/04/assistance-to-few-aid-to-all.html
Embezzlement of funds which are meant for poor in itself is a big crime and if it is to do with international aid then it is a huge erosion of trust at the global level. Moreover, since these aid/assistance are announced for a specific purpose and for specific time period, corruption at any level fundamentally defeats the very purpose. For instance, Tsunami funds that were poured in India from numerous sources, finally exposed in being misused which eventually killed millions of hopes and thousands of lives. Same goes for almost all developmental aid be it for education, health, AIDS or malaria. And above all, such act comes at a huge cost and for us it has been a bulwark of embarrassment at a global level.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/04/assistance-to-few-aid-to-all.html
Passionate About India: How the extreme Right is screwing America and the ...
Passionate About India: How the extreme Right is screwing America and the ...:
.I have been in the United States the last few days on a lecture tour. Every time I come here, I discover more fascinating things about this fascinating country! Though my hectic tour has not allowed me much time, as I would have loved to go through all manners of newspapers and magazines, I have still managed to go through a lot of them. And one thing strikes me as very strange. I mean, most of the media is full of stories about the imminent face off between the Republican Mitt Romney and the Democrat incumbent Barack Obama. But the media seems to have an equal number of stories on the Tea Party, on how the Republicans are waging a war on women and on how Obama has a massive lead over Romney when it comes to women voters in America. One thing you must grant this country – even those from the ‘Left’ ideologies who dislike America so much – the freedom of speech here is genuine and everybody seems to exercise the right to yell their heads off! I was blown away by some of the articles, columns and opinion pieces on controversial issues like Obamacare and the shooting of the Florida teenager by a white man that would have almost surely caused riots in India or would have been banned!
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/how-extreme-right-is-screwing-america.html
.I have been in the United States the last few days on a lecture tour. Every time I come here, I discover more fascinating things about this fascinating country! Though my hectic tour has not allowed me much time, as I would have loved to go through all manners of newspapers and magazines, I have still managed to go through a lot of them. And one thing strikes me as very strange. I mean, most of the media is full of stories about the imminent face off between the Republican Mitt Romney and the Democrat incumbent Barack Obama. But the media seems to have an equal number of stories on the Tea Party, on how the Republicans are waging a war on women and on how Obama has a massive lead over Romney when it comes to women voters in America. One thing you must grant this country – even those from the ‘Left’ ideologies who dislike America so much – the freedom of speech here is genuine and everybody seems to exercise the right to yell their heads off! I was blown away by some of the articles, columns and opinion pieces on controversial issues like Obamacare and the shooting of the Florida teenager by a white man that would have almost surely caused riots in India or would have been banned!
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/how-extreme-right-is-screwing-america.html
Friday, 13 April 2012
Sutanu Guru: WHY IS INDIA OBSESSED WITH NUMBERS?
Sutanu Guru: WHY IS INDIA OBSESSED WITH NUMBERS?:
I am an Indian, and a proud one at that. And so like you my dear reader, I confess that I am addicted to numbers. I especially use them while voicing my opinions to convince others. 80 times have I used numbers in this piece to convince you that you, a proud Indian, are obsessed with numbers and often miss the woods for the trees. In the end, you may choose to hold on to your number-preaching game, or agree with me and start reading beyond the digits. The least you could do is learn from the Indian government. Well, full credits to them for teaching us ordinary citizens that the term “reducing the poverty line” was supposed to be taken literally...
Read more: http://sutanu-guru.blogspot.in/2012/04/why-is-india-obsessed-with-numbers.html
I am an Indian, and a proud one at that. And so like you my dear reader, I confess that I am addicted to numbers. I especially use them while voicing my opinions to convince others. 80 times have I used numbers in this piece to convince you that you, a proud Indian, are obsessed with numbers and often miss the woods for the trees. In the end, you may choose to hold on to your number-preaching game, or agree with me and start reading beyond the digits. The least you could do is learn from the Indian government. Well, full credits to them for teaching us ordinary citizens that the term “reducing the poverty line” was supposed to be taken literally...
Read more: http://sutanu-guru.blogspot.in/2012/04/why-is-india-obsessed-with-numbers.html
Sutanu Guru: WHY IS INDIA OBSESSED WITH NUMBERS?
Sutanu Guru: WHY IS INDIA OBSESSED WITH NUMBERS?:
I am an Indian, and a proud one at that. And so like you my dear reader, I confess that I am addicted to numbers. I especially use them while voicing my opinions to convince others. 80 times have I used numbers in this piece to convince you that you, a proud Indian, are obsessed with numbers and often miss the woods for the trees. In the end, you may choose to hold on to your number-preaching game, or agree with me and start reading beyond the digits. The least you could do is learn from the Indian government. Well, full credits to them for teaching us ordinary citizens that the term “reducing the poverty line” was supposed to be taken literally...
Read more: http://sutanu-guru.blogspot.in/2012/04/why-is-india-obsessed-with-numbers.html
I am an Indian, and a proud one at that. And so like you my dear reader, I confess that I am addicted to numbers. I especially use them while voicing my opinions to convince others. 80 times have I used numbers in this piece to convince you that you, a proud Indian, are obsessed with numbers and often miss the woods for the trees. In the end, you may choose to hold on to your number-preaching game, or agree with me and start reading beyond the digits. The least you could do is learn from the Indian government. Well, full credits to them for teaching us ordinary citizens that the term “reducing the poverty line” was supposed to be taken literally...
Read more: http://sutanu-guru.blogspot.in/2012/04/why-is-india-obsessed-with-numbers.html
Typos: FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT II: THE LAST BATTLEGROUND
Typos: FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT II: THE LAST BATTLEGROUND:
While checking at the gate is rudimentary, the pilgrims are only one amongst a horde of other threats to the tigers and the forests. Ram Bhil is at the forefront of the battle to save the tiger. He has been a forest guard in Sariska for a long long time. He has driven out a poacher or two in his time. But they were after wild boars and sambhar, not leopards and tigers. Once, an unarmed Ram Bhil out patrolling the forest stumbled upon an armed poacher and tried to catch him but he had to run for cover after he was shot at. On another occasion, he chanced upon a group of villagers who were carrying spears, axes and country made muzzle-loaders. He challenged them and asked them to surrender their weapons but the group roughed him up and he believes would have killed him if he hadn’t escaped. He knew they were up to no good but when he reported the matter to his seniors, nothing was done about it. When he asked for reinforcements or modern weapons and communication equipment and radio sets, he was told there was no budgetfor it. “Bees saal se koi nayee bharthi nahin hui hai sahib. All the guards here are like me… just too old to put up a fight. These tigers are doomed and there is little I can do about it.”
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/04/fight-good-fight-ii-last-battleground.html
While checking at the gate is rudimentary, the pilgrims are only one amongst a horde of other threats to the tigers and the forests. Ram Bhil is at the forefront of the battle to save the tiger. He has been a forest guard in Sariska for a long long time. He has driven out a poacher or two in his time. But they were after wild boars and sambhar, not leopards and tigers. Once, an unarmed Ram Bhil out patrolling the forest stumbled upon an armed poacher and tried to catch him but he had to run for cover after he was shot at. On another occasion, he chanced upon a group of villagers who were carrying spears, axes and country made muzzle-loaders. He challenged them and asked them to surrender their weapons but the group roughed him up and he believes would have killed him if he hadn’t escaped. He knew they were up to no good but when he reported the matter to his seniors, nothing was done about it. When he asked for reinforcements or modern weapons and communication equipment and radio sets, he was told there was no budgetfor it. “Bees saal se koi nayee bharthi nahin hui hai sahib. All the guards here are like me… just too old to put up a fight. These tigers are doomed and there is little I can do about it.”
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/04/fight-good-fight-ii-last-battleground.html
Typos: FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT II: THE LAST BATTLEGROUND
Typos: FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT II: THE LAST BATTLEGROUND:
While checking at the gate is rudimentary, the pilgrims are only one amongst a horde of other threats to the tigers and the forests. Ram Bhil is at the forefront of the battle to save the tiger. He has been a forest guard in Sariska for a long long time. He has driven out a poacher or two in his time. But they were after wild boars and sambhar, not leopards and tigers. Once, an unarmed Ram Bhil out patrolling the forest stumbled upon an armed poacher and tried to catch him but he had to run for cover after he was shot at. On another occasion, he chanced upon a group of villagers who were carrying spears, axes and country made muzzle-loaders. He challenged them and asked them to surrender their weapons but the group roughed him up and he believes would have killed him if he hadn’t escaped. He knew they were up to no good but when he reported the matter to his seniors, nothing was done about it. When he asked for reinforcements or modern weapons and communication equipment and radio sets, he was told there was no budgetfor it. “Bees saal se koi nayee bharthi nahin hui hai sahib. All the guards here are like me… just too old to put up a fight. These tigers are doomed and there is little I can do about it.”
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/04/fight-good-fight-ii-last-battleground.html
While checking at the gate is rudimentary, the pilgrims are only one amongst a horde of other threats to the tigers and the forests. Ram Bhil is at the forefront of the battle to save the tiger. He has been a forest guard in Sariska for a long long time. He has driven out a poacher or two in his time. But they were after wild boars and sambhar, not leopards and tigers. Once, an unarmed Ram Bhil out patrolling the forest stumbled upon an armed poacher and tried to catch him but he had to run for cover after he was shot at. On another occasion, he chanced upon a group of villagers who were carrying spears, axes and country made muzzle-loaders. He challenged them and asked them to surrender their weapons but the group roughed him up and he believes would have killed him if he hadn’t escaped. He knew they were up to no good but when he reported the matter to his seniors, nothing was done about it. When he asked for reinforcements or modern weapons and communication equipment and radio sets, he was told there was no budgetfor it. “Bees saal se koi nayee bharthi nahin hui hai sahib. All the guards here are like me… just too old to put up a fight. These tigers are doomed and there is little I can do about it.”
Read more: http://prashantobanerji.blogspot.in/2012/04/fight-good-fight-ii-last-battleground.html
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: NO CONTROL ON DRUGS CONTROL
COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: NO CONTROL ON DRUGS CONTROL:
Drug control not only suffers from loopholes and intentional reluctance at manufacturing level but also at retail level. At retail level, majority of the medical shops are not provided with a mandatory pharmacist! The Mashelkar Committee too, though did not charge the Drug Control Department directly, but made clear claims that there is substantial non-uniformity in existing legislations. To compound the problem further, the recommendation of providing one inspector per 25 manufacturing units never got materialised.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/04/no-control-on-drugs-control.html
Drug control not only suffers from loopholes and intentional reluctance at manufacturing level but also at retail level. At retail level, majority of the medical shops are not provided with a mandatory pharmacist! The Mashelkar Committee too, though did not charge the Drug Control Department directly, but made clear claims that there is substantial non-uniformity in existing legislations. To compound the problem further, the recommendation of providing one inspector per 25 manufacturing units never got materialised.
Read more: http://prasoonsmajumdar.blogspot.in/2012/04/no-control-on-drugs-control.html
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Passionate About India: Vinod Rai is making CAG a feared name by exposing ...
Passionate About India: Vinod Rai is making CAG a feared name by exposing ...:
Unlike T. N. Seshan, when you meet Vinod Rai, the current Comptroller and Auditor General of India, he comes across as a very suave and soft-spoken bureaucrat. At the recent convocation ceremony of our graduating students, when our institute’s Director Dr. M. K. Chaudhuri challenges Vinod Rai and says that he isn't bold enough like Mr. Seshan and is not as strongly taking the government head-on as he should, he very firmly says that he is doing what he is constitutionally allowed to do. So what does Vinod Rai have to say about Pranab Mukherjee’s public snub that 90% of CAG findings are dropped in the first stage? "Yes, Mr. Mukherjee is right in some sense. CAG raises questions and it’s true that a large proportion of issues do get answered to our satisfaction in the very first stage," he says very politely, yet very firmly; and at no point in any self-doubt about whether he was doing less than he should be. Does this sound slightly lame? Perhaps. Specially because, being slightly aggressive about such issues myself, I might have personally liked Vinod Rai to stretch his constitutional limits slightly more, redefine them, and take the government head-on perhaps more loudly. But then all human beings don't have the same approach to dealing with identical issues. Our current election commissioner Dr. S. Y. Quraishi is a very soft-spoken, music loving man; but he is the man behind bringing democracy to the killing fields of Bihar, Bengal and UP
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/vinod-rai-is-making-cag-feared-name-by.html
Unlike T. N. Seshan, when you meet Vinod Rai, the current Comptroller and Auditor General of India, he comes across as a very suave and soft-spoken bureaucrat. At the recent convocation ceremony of our graduating students, when our institute’s Director Dr. M. K. Chaudhuri challenges Vinod Rai and says that he isn't bold enough like Mr. Seshan and is not as strongly taking the government head-on as he should, he very firmly says that he is doing what he is constitutionally allowed to do. So what does Vinod Rai have to say about Pranab Mukherjee’s public snub that 90% of CAG findings are dropped in the first stage? "Yes, Mr. Mukherjee is right in some sense. CAG raises questions and it’s true that a large proportion of issues do get answered to our satisfaction in the very first stage," he says very politely, yet very firmly; and at no point in any self-doubt about whether he was doing less than he should be. Does this sound slightly lame? Perhaps. Specially because, being slightly aggressive about such issues myself, I might have personally liked Vinod Rai to stretch his constitutional limits slightly more, redefine them, and take the government head-on perhaps more loudly. But then all human beings don't have the same approach to dealing with identical issues. Our current election commissioner Dr. S. Y. Quraishi is a very soft-spoken, music loving man; but he is the man behind bringing democracy to the killing fields of Bihar, Bengal and UP
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/vinod-rai-is-making-cag-feared-name-by.html
Passionate About India: Vinod Rai is making CAG a feared name by exposing ...
Passionate About India: Vinod Rai is making CAG a feared name by exposing ...:
Unlike T. N. Seshan, when you meet Vinod Rai, the current Comptroller and Auditor General of India, he comes across as a very suave and soft-spoken bureaucrat. At the recent convocation ceremony of our graduating students, when our institute’s Director Dr. M. K. Chaudhuri challenges Vinod Rai and says that he isn't bold enough like Mr. Seshan and is not as strongly taking the government head-on as he should, he very firmly says that he is doing what he is constitutionally allowed to do. So what does Vinod Rai have to say about Pranab Mukherjee’s public snub that 90% of CAG findings are dropped in the first stage? "Yes, Mr. Mukherjee is right in some sense. CAG raises questions and it’s true that a large proportion of issues do get answered to our satisfaction in the very first stage," he says very politely, yet very firmly; and at no point in any self-doubt about whether he was doing less than he should be. Does this sound slightly lame? Perhaps. Specially because, being slightly aggressive about such issues myself, I might have personally liked Vinod Rai to stretch his constitutional limits slightly more, redefine them, and take the government head-on perhaps more loudly. But then all human beings don't have the same approach to dealing with identical issues. Our current election commissioner Dr. S. Y. Quraishi is a very soft-spoken, music loving man; but he is the man behind bringing democracy to the killing fields of Bihar, Bengal and UP
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/vinod-rai-is-making-cag-feared-name-by.html
Unlike T. N. Seshan, when you meet Vinod Rai, the current Comptroller and Auditor General of India, he comes across as a very suave and soft-spoken bureaucrat. At the recent convocation ceremony of our graduating students, when our institute’s Director Dr. M. K. Chaudhuri challenges Vinod Rai and says that he isn't bold enough like Mr. Seshan and is not as strongly taking the government head-on as he should, he very firmly says that he is doing what he is constitutionally allowed to do. So what does Vinod Rai have to say about Pranab Mukherjee’s public snub that 90% of CAG findings are dropped in the first stage? "Yes, Mr. Mukherjee is right in some sense. CAG raises questions and it’s true that a large proportion of issues do get answered to our satisfaction in the very first stage," he says very politely, yet very firmly; and at no point in any self-doubt about whether he was doing less than he should be. Does this sound slightly lame? Perhaps. Specially because, being slightly aggressive about such issues myself, I might have personally liked Vinod Rai to stretch his constitutional limits slightly more, redefine them, and take the government head-on perhaps more loudly. But then all human beings don't have the same approach to dealing with identical issues. Our current election commissioner Dr. S. Y. Quraishi is a very soft-spoken, music loving man; but he is the man behind bringing democracy to the killing fields of Bihar, Bengal and UP
Read more: http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/04/vinod-rai-is-making-cag-feared-name-by.html
Saturday, 7 April 2012
IIPM Info B-School IIPM Admission Process IIPM Gurgaon New Delhi: Planman Media's Star Realty 2011-12 launch on ET N...
IIPM Info B-School IIPM Admission Process IIPM Gurgaon New Delhi: Planman Media's Star Realty 2011-12 launch on ET N...:
A Planman Group initiative, "Star Realty 2011-12 - Lords Of The Land", a first of its kind real estate coffee table book was recently unveiled in the capital by the union minister of urban development, Kamal Nath and Arindam Chaudhuri, editor-in-chief, Planman Media.
The book conferred the title of "Star Realty" to the top 50 real estate brands in the country, which were selected based on a survey conducted across 10 cities in the country - including thousands of respondents by the Indian Council for Market Research (ICMR). The evening witnessed leading real estate companies and their extraordinary leadership being honoured for their great contribution to shaping the landscape of the country.
Read more: http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.in/2012/04/planman-medias-star-realty-2011-12.html
A Planman Group initiative, "Star Realty 2011-12 - Lords Of The Land", a first of its kind real estate coffee table book was recently unveiled in the capital by the union minister of urban development, Kamal Nath and Arindam Chaudhuri, editor-in-chief, Planman Media.
The book conferred the title of "Star Realty" to the top 50 real estate brands in the country, which were selected based on a survey conducted across 10 cities in the country - including thousands of respondents by the Indian Council for Market Research (ICMR). The evening witnessed leading real estate companies and their extraordinary leadership being honoured for their great contribution to shaping the landscape of the country.
Read more: http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.in/2012/04/planman-medias-star-realty-2011-12.html
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