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The best way to permanently enslave a people is  to replace their memories, their mythologies, their idioms ~ Sanjeev Sanyal पिछले दो लेखों में हमने धर्मनिरपेक्षता के इतिहास और उसके भारतीय प्रसंग में सामाजिक उपयोगिता पर चर्चा की थी । इस लेख में हम कुछ पाश्चात्य शब्दावली के भारतीय परिवेश में राजनैतिक एवं सामाजिक उपयोग और प्रासंगिकता पर बात  करेंगे । ये एक बहुत तीखी लेकिन सरल टिपण्णी होगी, जिससे शायद सबका सहमत हो पाना नामुमकिन होगा - लेकिन " असहमति पर सहमति " का पालन करते हुए हम आगे बढ़ते हैं ।  हम बात कर रहे हैं कुछ ऐसे शब्दों की जो हमारे देश में पश्चिम सभ्यता से आयात किये गए हैं और अमूमन रोज़ाना अख़बार और टीवी के माध्यम से हमें इनकी काफी बड़ी मात्र में ख़ुराक़ मिलती रही है । बहुलवाद (Plularism), सहनशीलता (Tolerance), बहुसंस्कृतिवाद (Multiculturalism) , भूमंडलीकरण (Globalization) जैसे शब्द इसी शब्दावली के अंतर्गत आते हैं , मूलतः जिनका भारतीय सभ्यता से क़रीब ५००० साल पुराना रिश्ता है ।  इन शब्दावली को समझने के लिए हमें भूमं...

Pradhan Mantri MUDRA (Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency) Yojana Mudra Innovation may Prove a Game Changer By: Shri S Gurumurthy | Published: 10th April 2015 Pic Credit: The New Indian Express In the above article published in TNIE today, Shri S Gurumurthy (SG) analyses MUDRA Yojana. Drawing here some key points form this article and listing them here for easy understanding of MUDRA: First, the background with some numbers: Corporate Sector in India accounts for just 15% of India’s GDP. 50% of India’s GDP comes from non-Corporate or Informal Sector = 'Small and Micro Businesses’ (SMB) Corporate sector accounts for just about 10% of the total Jobs. 90% of the Jobs come from non-Corporate or Informal Sector. There are about 5.8.Crore (58 Million) 'Small and Micro Businesses' that actually drive the Indian economy These 'Small and Micro Businesses’ employ about 12.8 Crore of India’s total working population. Corporate Secto...

The reason why I have taken up to write a review of Nero’s Guests is because it needs to be widely circulated, written and talked about, as much as possible; so that everyone gets to see it, those who still do not get the time to watch it, may further need to be motivated to do so, and only then it will reach out to the wider audience and be able to make a real impact. The mainstream media today is totally degenerated and corrupted as it does not cover anything that is not “breaking news” or that is not considered “glamorous” enough to catch eye balls. For this obvious reason, Nero’s Guests has been completely ignored by the mainstream media (both print & electronic) and is not given its due space & visibility. The subject itself is not new to any of us and it has become a part of our daily lives - mere statistics. It is about the severe agrarian crisis that the country is faced with, as a result of which farmers are still committing suicide and as many as 200,000 farmers h...

One of the best pictures of Election'09 I have seen in the Indian Press so far.

This article is about how a mediocre short-sighted business & economy model is aped from the West, adopted by India Inc and how it is affecting India’s Socio-Economic fabric. West has already seen it all and reached the high point of saturation and point of no return, and the consequences of which are: Sub-Prime Crisis, Global Meltdown & Recession, Toxic Debts in Multi-Trillion Dollars. Clearly & surely, a meltdown (mess-up would be a better word) of this enormity could not have happened in a short span of a couple of years. India as a country is rocking with a revised 6.1% growth projected for 2009, right behind China’s 6.5%, especially considering the current gloomy, depressed and flat business & economic climate. India Inc has come a long way during the last two decades of our liberated economy and How! We have literally converted the sleeping towns of Suburban India into knowledge-worker powerhouses, with the opening up of ITES, BPO & Call Centre shops all over....