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2月26日 Dhaka’s pieces of IndiaSlums have a thing about them. They look the same in every country. This one at Sayedabad locality in Dhaka was no different— palm-thatched mud huts and shanties covered with colourful designs.  As we moved from the main road to the dark alleys, nothing much changed. However, there was one difference. The deeper we went, the graffiti in linier eastern-Nagri script of Bangla gave way to the cursive and round Telugu script. Also, there was a visible change in the dresses and appearances of the people who lived in these houses. White coarse saris gave way to colourful and patterned ones; and lungis were replaced by Angavastrams. Welcome to Dhaka’s Telugu colony!The Telugu people were first introduced here by the British after the Sepoy Mutiny. Although many of them were soldiers in the Imperial Army, the majority worked as janitors. The then Gazetteer of Dhaka puts their population to around 20,000. Today, their population has swelled to around 3,50,000, and their profession remains unchanged. “Of the 12 sects of Telugus, members of only three sects—Kapolo, Malolo and Shaklolo – migrated to Bangladesh,” quips Alluvari Demudu, a community elder. “Kapolo, who were from royal blood of Kapu were brought as mercenaries. The rest work as sweepers.” The community has remarkably preserved their unique culture and cuisine in this foreign clime. Women still wear nose-pins on the both sides of their noses – something that is not very common among Bangalis; so also are silver anklets and toe-rings. Shankar Pollati Apparo, head of Telugu Development Society says, “We struggle hard to preserve our culture. But it is difficult. Youngsters prefer Bangla over Telugu. There are no jobs apart from a janitor’s if you speak only Telugu. Also, we are constantly uprooted and cannot have any permanent home.” When you are poor the only thing you own is your identity. That is the last thing you loose before sinking into oblivion. ....Continue 2月20日 If there were an Indian version of ‘The Thinking Man’s Sex Symbols’ list, Nandita Das would be top contender.How do you choose a movie to work in? I instinctively move towards projects that resonate with my interests, concerns and dilemmas. Some films didn’t turn out the way I had imagined. But I am happy that at least I made those choices for honest reasons. What I look for is a good script, a director who can translate that into an interesting cinematic experience and a role that is believable. You  have done 30 roles in 10 languages. Did you ever see parts of Nandita Das in any role?How can I? How can I make a Nandita Das out of the role I do? When you watch a movie, say "Kannagi" in Malayalam or "Azhagi" in Tamil or "Earth" in Hindi, you are watching the character, not Nandita Das, the person. But in another way, in every role I do, there is a part of myself. It is not possible to avoid that. A character is made out of both the character itself and Nandita. If the character is performed by another actor, it will become another character. The actor’s experiences in life are bound to affect the character. So, it’s not Nandita Das portraying herself, but the character will have a little Nandita Das in it when it is performed by Nandita Das. Which was the most difficult language you have worked in? Of course, it is Malayalam. Pronunciation of the language is very difficult. But I have worked in four Malayalam films, and now I’m slowly picking up the language. And I love to learn languages. Nandita, the social activist, the actor, the director, the writer.... Where do all these come together? How do you manage all these roles? It’s not like that. Whether you make the choice of a character you want to play, whether you direct a movie, whether you are into social activism advocating certain issues, whether you share your thoughts through writing or speech, these are different mediums you use to communicate. I told you that I’m really a communicator. It all comes together at a point. The point is the heart, and mind which shares these thoughts. Can we expect another Nandita movie soon? I’m still on the lookout for interesting scripts. It may happen from within me or from outside. I’m not sure. But it will not be done soon. Many times your views, movies etc are compared with those of Shabana Azmi. How do you feel? Yes, sometimes people do say that I’m walking in Shabana Azmi’s footsteps. In this field, some amount of comparison and labelling is inevitable. People will do that. Media particularly likes to label people. It makes their work easy. But everybody's likes and choices are different. It’s not that Shabana has done only parallel movies. She has done a lot of commercial movies too. Whether good or bad, people have a tendency to generalise things. She is a different person. But I don’t take such comparisons seriously. What are your future projects? I will start acting again in March. I will be working with Deepa Mehta again in "Midnight’s Children." And we might be doing another film together before that. My advocacy work is still on, but I will get back to it more intensely after February.....Continue 2月13日 Flushing away fishesAll  of us swallow pills when we are unwell, which are excreted in our urine. But, the wastewater treatment plants don’t filter out drugs. The problem arises when people flush unused drugs down the toilet which find their way to nearby lakes or streams. Researchers found that drugs like antidepressants, which end up reaching the sea or river, affect fishes in many ways, like slowing their response to predators and their techniques of hunting prey. ....Continue 2月5日 Lack of integrity and corruption has become a low risk, high profit business in India N Vittal Former Chief Vigilance Commissioner This bring us to the third factor: the system. The system includes laws, rules, regulations and their implementation. For example, we throw rubbish wherever we want in India. But not when we go to a place like Singapore; this is because we know that anyone violating the law will be punished there. Unfortunately in our country, we have created a system where the guilty are not punished. Our judicial system is very slow. Justice delayed is justice denied. The conviction rate in our courts for criminal cases is only 6%. Lack of integrity and corruption therefore, has become a low risk, high profit business in our country. No wonder, therefore, we are rated as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. What’s true of our country, applies to every section of our society. Corruption has become respectable because many members from respectable white-collared professions do not reveal their income and evade taxes. This leads to the all pervasive presence of black money. Black money, according to some experts, covers 40% of our country’s GDP. Today’s politics needs a lot of money. Even winning the vote of confidence in Parliament requires money. Closely allied with money power is muscle power and we have seen hardened criminals being elected MPs. In the light of definition of honesty mentioned above, criminals also should be classified as dishonest people. It will, therefore, be unfair to single out only MPs on the issue of lack of integrity. Any suggestion for promoting honesty and integrity among the MPs should look into the larger question of promoting honesty and integrity in our society and public life. I would suggest the following steps: One, promotion of black money must be severely curtailed. For this the process of raising funds for political parties should be made transparent. The Election Commission (EC) must rule that all political parties should account for their funds and they must be audited. Such transparency will highlight the areas where bribes are used. Two, the Benami Transaction Prohibition Act, 1989 and Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2003 should be implemented. As far as the first act is concerned, rules have to be framed for the confiscation of the benami property under section 8. For the second, all acts relating to the taxes which are evaded - and these contribute to the bulk of black money - should be included. ....Continue 1月6日 Tell-tale TullThere’s something old boy Ian – he’s 61, is that old? – must remember: that playing Indian and western side by side on stage doesn’t mean it has fused. And that, truth be told, even from the hated critic’s point of view (and anyone who pays can criticise),  the tie-up with Anoushka Shankar a week ago, in Kolkata, didn’t really work. Of the Piper and the Princess, as the concert was called, well, the piper prevailed, flute, guitar, tambourine and all.But the important thing is that Jethro Tull presided. A bespectacled Anderson at 61 is still Ian Anderson, Tull still Jethro Tull, the magic still intact, in fact now vintage, it’s tasting a rare pleasure, and a privilege. The staccato, scratchy sweetness of the steel flute wafting across from the Scottish highlands is almost a picture complete in itself; for the listener from a totally different musical milieu that finds its roots in this sub-continent, it’s like listening to a Braveheart in love, his mosaic beautiful. “…Laughed down by the putting green / I popped down in their holes / Four and twenty labourers were labouring / Digging up their gold…” he goes in their classic Mother Goose. As one gentleman at the show says about Anderson: “He’s Mick Jagger with a flute”. So true. At Kolkata, it was all there, put out to perfection, numbers such as Heavy Horses, Aqualung, Too old to Rock n Roll: Too Young to Die, Mother Goose, Locomotive Breath… Tull is a major milestone in the journey that rock music has travelled, from the father of Rock ‘n’ Roll, the venerated Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry (b 1926, the man still gigs) through to its king Elvis (b 1935, d 1977) to what it is now. With Tull, that spectrum of the extraordinary is only broadened, with generous helpings of Scottish and British folk. Add to that the hard drums and the keyboard, the Electric Blues lick, the crazy flute, the dense lines, and the brain and the mind are taken as well. ....Continue 12月29日 Blind to reality?This is the oldest profession known to man...  there is no country in this world where it does not exist. It fulfils an important need of the society, that’s why it exists. But what does it get in return, only hypocrisy and neglect and occasionally some misguided attempt to curb this ‘menace’. The latest being The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2006, proposed by the government to be tabled in the Lok Sabha very soon. If this law comes into effect, prostitution will be forced to go underground and the lives of prostitutes will become more dangerous and destitute. Just take a look at the amendments proposed in the law. The biggest complaint that we have is with Section 5C of the proposed law, the section basically says that any person “found in a brothel for the purpose of sexual exploitation” can be fined upto Rs 20,000 and imprisoned for a maximum of three months. Further, the proposed law states that if that same person is caught again for a similar ‘offense’, he is liable to be fined Rs 50,000 and face an imprisonment term of no less than six months! Needless to say, if this law comes into effect it will sound a death knell for this profession.....Continue 12月3日 “BJP regime has ruined law and order here”Where does the Congress stand in this election in Chhattisgarh?
What I understand from the areas I have toured so far, the people in this state want a change. I am totally convinced that we shall come to power with a majority,  but our focus will remain the traditional Congress voters, the tribal communities. Our main aim to oust this corrupt government and all the party workers are focused on that and working hard.What are the electoral issues that Congress is stressing on? The Bharatiya Janata Party has failed in all fronts and face serious charges of corruption. They have failed to deliver, whether on their promise of distributing cows or distributing rice at Rs three a kilogram to the poor people. If we come to power, we shall launch the scheme of selling rice at Rs two a kilo, and without any ceiling on the amount they want to buy. We shall also order inquiries into all the scams of the incumbent government. The BJP says your Congress government was tyrannical and casteist. Statistics show under whose regime the crime graph has jumped. Not only are there murders, burglaries and other crime, shamefully, we are seeing at least two rapes every day. Increasingly, the common man is becoming insecure. You have become the self-appointed chief ministerial candidate of the Congress and the BJP is raising this lack of inner-party democracy as an electoral issue. Unlike other parties, we do not impose a chief minister from the High Command. As is customary, our chief minister is elected by winning MLAs and that is what will be this time too.....Continue 10月22日 Shrewd, crude, definitely RussianPost SCO's move on Georgia, it is a mere cakewalk for Russia to build support in other regional groups Diplomatic  lingo and lexicons used in international diplomacy leave enough space for warring parties to manoeuver and interpret declarations and claim tactical ‘wins’. Last week’s meeting of Shanghai Corporation Organisation (SCO) was no different. Whatever the decision was, both Russia and the West claimed tactical victory. China and four Central Asian nations – members of erstwhile Soviet Republic – inked an avowal supporting Russia's position in the Caucasus, however, also putting across “deep concern” over the Georgia conflict and calling for a negotiated resolution. In a joint communiqué, the leaders of China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan declared that they “support the active role of Russia in assisting peace and cooperation in the region.” ....ContinueSource : IIPM Editorial, 2008 An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist). Read also :-
10月15日 Do nail him, but please press the right charges!The call for al-Bashir's arrest on charges of genocide could only have a negative impact Those who follow events in Darfur closely know very well that Sudan’s President  Omar Hassan al-Bashir leads a group of political and military leaders responsible for serious and large-scale crimes against Sudanese citizens that the country’s military forces, with the assistance of paramilitary groups and militias, commit every day in the region. These citizens are guilty only of belonging to the three tribes (Fur, Masalit, & Zaghawa) that spawned the rebels who took up arms against the government a few years ago.Any step to hold Sudan’s leaders accountable for their crimes is therefore most welcome. Nevertheless, the decision of Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to request an arrest warrant against al-Bashir is puzzling, for three reasons. First, if Moreno-Ocampo intended to pursue the goal of having al-Bashir arrested, he might have issued a sealed request and asked the ICC’s judges to issue a sealed arrest warrant, to be made public only once al-Bashir travelled abroad.....Continue Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008 An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist). Read also :-
10月4日 No vehicle to flyIAF is in dearth of fighter squadron Indian  defense always seems to be dearth of some or other things. There is already a dearth of officers clubbed with delay in their infrastructural projects. Recently there has been one more problem added to its kitty. Indian AirForce is not able to achieve its sanctioned strength of 39.5 fighter squadrons and its estimated that it will be unable to achieve it even by 2017. The IAF is down to just about 30-32 squadrons (each has 12 to 18 jets), and worst yet, the older MiG variants are ready to take retirement. Even after new orders and procurement, India will manage to add only 35.5 fighter squadrons by the end of 2012 and 37.5 squadrons by end of 2017. .....ContinueSource : IIPM Editorial, 2008 An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist). Read also :-
5月13日 A new-age India witnesses the dawn of eve power... all the way!Blessed as this trend is, So I say, shatter that proverbial glass ceiling with finality and think beyond the barriers of illiteracy and prejudice, with a line from Shaggy that goes out to all the women I know… So amazing how this world was made, I wonder if GOD is a woman… For complete IIPM article click here Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2008 An IIPM and Management Guru Prof.Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative IIPM | Arindam Chaudhuri | 4Ps Business & Marketing | Business & Economy | Kkoooljobs | Planman Media | Planman Consulting | Planman Marcom | Planman Technologies | Planman Financial | Planman Motion Pictures | GIDF | The Daily Indian | IIPM Think Tank | The Sunday Indian 5月1日 Get real, it ain’t reel life!Meghna ghai PURI proves that being a female fresher in the corporate world can get real reel-like... She just passed out with a B.Sc. in management from King’s College, London and her father asked her to join him in his business... Today, she is Director, Whistling Woods International. Read More :- B&E,4ps & IIPM Publication IIPM | Arindam Chaudhuri | 4Ps Business & Marketing | Business & Economy | Kkoooljobs | Planman Media | Planman Consulting | Planman Marcom | Planman Technologies | Planman Financial | Planman Motion Pictures | GIDF | The Daily Indian | IIPM Think Tank | The Sunday Indian 4月11日 “We are extremely small... But, we have worked for large clients all our lives...”Talk of living life on its own terms and Equus doesn’t accept the meager 15-17% commission that the whole industry abides by, instead it has marketed the flat-rate concept to its clients. For this flat, nonvertical and non-hierarchical agency, If its defiant way of doing things sets it apart from others, then it also has an extremely young team to keep up that spirit where the average age is around twenty seven years. “The next rung of leadership could emerge anywhere between 25-32 at best which I think is fantastic as most agencies are filled with fuddy-duddies, dinosaurs. This is what distinguishes us. I walk in to pitches seeing people under whom I was training, still running offices in Delhi and Bombay. It is good to know that we would grow older much later,” says Swapan. A WPP agency, Equus Red Cell (part of WPP’s Red Cell brand of agency), looks for emerging industries and goes after them. Talking about the work culture in the agency an employee says, “You do not need grey hair in order to meet the CEOs. They push you to do better.” Swapan describes his agency as ‘fun’, doesn’t have a separate cabin to himself, “sees himself as the chief trader in a stock market”, believes in giving wings to his employees and seeks intellectual competition. Well, that’s the grey cells mixed with red cells effect! Read More :-
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If their crushing loss in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections was not enough provocation to trigger infighting; BJP’s loss in the presidential election stakes, has further escalated the attrition war within the party. The two distinct camps within the BJP are headed by former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani & party chief Rajnath Singh. While Singh attempted to sideline Advani by roping in RSS’s support, Advani hit back at party chief during the recent BJP National Executive by demanding a discussion on reasons for the humiliating defeat in UP Assembly polls. 1月30日 Rediff ’ine sharing!These aren’t exactly the times for sharing your possessions with the needy! But in the cyber arena, opportunities for sharing keep on increasing. Taking a cue from the makers of ‘YouTube’, Rediff has also plunged into the content sharing space. With the launch of its portal titled ‘iShare’, Rediff is now offering a platform for sharing content & also allows social networking. The iShare service allows its
Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman & CEO, Rediff .com, says, “The increasing usage of technology & the means becoming affordable, we believe that iShare will provide users a context to connect & enjoy a more comprehensive multimedia experience.” However, the journey would not be a cake walk for iShare as it would have to face competition from the likes of YouTube. Since Google had picked up YouTube in October 2006 for $1.65 billion, hence indirectly Rediff would have to tackle the mighty Google in India. |
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