Passionate About India

  AN OPEN LETTER TO PM Dear Prime Minister Modi, BEFORE INDIA BECOMES ONE HUGE MORGUE, LET'S BRING THE ARMY OUT AND CREATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTERS IN EVERY DISTRICT SPORTS STADIUM. Dear sir, two days back I wrote this article - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158485899565016&id=76429890015&scmts=scwsplos - stating lockdown will not help India's cause. And I totally believe it won't help. (Please do read my previous article and save India's poor and the Indian economy by planning innovative new methods to deal with this crisis). But I am extremely thankful and glad you did it. Because the medical infrastructure will get three weeks to prepare for the huge calamity ahead. Unfortunately though these three weeks will fall 73 years too short for India and definitely 6 years too short for your present government. Anyways. Cutting it really short. Let's hope in these three weeks your government is able to source some ventilators and masks for the ...

  India is not China or Italy. We need to have new ideas wrt Coronavirus to save POOR from DYING HUNGRY and SAVE BUSINESSES from shutting down. LET'S NOT MAKE INDIA ONE HUGE MORGUE. By Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri I am a Ph.D. in Business and not a medical science doctor. You might then ask what gives me the right to write this article. Well I have been thinking of this kind of a situation and it's economic consequences for over 15 years and here is the proof: http://www.businessandeconomy.org/20102005/default.asp -pg 2 of the article depicts exactly scenario. I had done this article 15 years back*, in Oct 2005. At that time, most of the members in my editorial team had a sarcastic smirk on my obsession to make it the cover story of our magazine, Business & Economy. They asked me why should a story about a stupid fear of pandemic make it to the cover of a Business magazine. Now that everyone globally seems to fear a similar situation, I think I can share a few thoughts. The fact ...

Too touching.. What’s the use of celebrating development, growth, wealth and increasing no. of billionaires if in 2019 we still get up to such news items which make us feel we are living during the pre-independence famines of 40s? Like many Bengalis, I watch Ray’s Pather Panchali (in fact the entire trilogy) often... it puts me in touch with the sensitive side of life which often gets relegated to the background thanks the humdrum of daily life. It revives my childhood memories of reading the original book and going through the pains and joys of Apu’s life. And makes me appreciate what I have. This pic made me feel as if I am seeing a scene from the book that was based in an Indian village a hundred years back. To see poverty and how people lived in poverty one should have had to visit Poverty museums by now as Poverty should have had no place in today’s world. I wonder how long do we really need to wait to remove problems of hunger, shelter and basic income from the world? And why at...