ARE WE ADDRESSING THE UNEMPLOYMENT ISSUE AS A SECTOR?

Yes, we must address the complex and concerning issues surrounding unemployment, which has, until now, remained an undefined sector. The problem of unemployment poses a huge challenge, with multiple dimensions, varied complexities, and significant impacts on economic development, affecting a large part of our population. It requires special attention, with a concentrated, strategic, and effective set of programs and actions. To address its challenges effectively and efficiently, it must be recog...

“CONTINUING PARTITION…….a sad reality” It’s a challenge to cure this evil

It is sad that the huge crack between communities developed during 1940s, instead of healing by time, continues to exist and frequently makes its presence felt. Though, there is a remarkable progress over a period of time and that we all would appreciate. But the fact is that the crack continues to make its presence felt. The fact that after decades of partition, in the year 1991, we had to enact the Places of Worship Act and decades thereafter the same Act had to be revisited several times ...

ARTIFICIALITY IN EXCHANGE RATES

The foreign exchange rates have always puzzled me. A few questions remain inadequately answered. For instance, on independence, one rupee was equal to one dollar and was quite near to being equal to one pound. Isn’t it surprising that despite being a very poor nation we had a very favorable exchange rate. It meant that it made imports more attractive. But we could not sustain the same conversion rate. Rupee got drastically hammered and soon enough even before the fifties we saw the ...

Part-2 “AND A FAIR GAME AT THAT”

Part-1 “ULTIMATELY, IT’S A GAME THAT WE CHOOSE TO PLAY” Part-2 “AND A FAIR GAME AT THAT” In part one I merely summarized that life is a game and one should carry on the honest, good and ethical KARMA and offer the same to Lord Krishna. Our duty is to perform KARMA that is destined for us, without worrying about the future, which is in the hands of The Lord Krishna. This sounds simple but in reality we make our life highly complex by entering into far too many races in the...

“ULTIMATELY, IT’S A GAME THAT WE CHOOSE TO PLAY”

There are a few questions that keep propping up in our mind. For seeking answers to the same, we set our mind, our intellect, our experiences, our observations, our believes, our prejudices etc all in a pot churn them and still crave to find a satisfactory answer. One such question is : Why a person after having earned tens and thousands crore of rupees keep amassing more and more wealth despite knowing that ultimately at the end of life he or she is not going to carry any up. Even afte...