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Do We Indians Protect Law Breakers?

04 Thursday Aug 2016

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Akrama Sakrama Scheme, culture, India, Kashmir Valley, law breakers, Rajya Sabha, stone pelters

Do we Indians as a race favour the underdog so much that our sympathies lie with law breakers? Also, with those who would not have suffered had they followed the laws in the first place? Is it part of our cultural ethos that we push as much as we can until rebuffed, and then complain about injustice meted out to us? I have examples from the macro to the micro, so this set me thinking. Continue reading →

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Super Mom! The Indian Working Woman.

26 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Prem Rao in Careers, Employee Productivity, Work Life Balance

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ambitions in women, heart attacks, India, women's health, working women

In most urban families in India these days, it is fairly common to have multiple wage earners. There was a time, long ago, when the man of the house was considered the bread-winner and ladies generally stayed at home and looked after their families. Today, in India, 24 % of the work force is made up of women, 117 million of them. Most of them have children to look after even as they pursue their careers. They are truly Super Moms as they rush from place to place, balancing the demands of work and family as only they can.

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My View of India’s General Elections (1951-1977)

13 Thursday Mar 2014

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General Elections in India, India, Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, The Emergency in India

I know at least two people who were born in India, not just on August 15 but on August 15 of 1947. You can quite easily guess what they were named. “Swatantra” means “freedom” so these boys were named Swatantran and Swatantra Kumar reflecting how this sentiment held sway both in the South and the North of India. They entered a world when India became independent after decades under the British Raj. We then became a democratic Republic in 1950 and started having General Elections, usually once in 5 years. Continue reading →

The World Around Us

10 Wednesday Oct 2012

Posted by Prem Rao in In the News, Indian Economy, People

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CAG, court cases in India, India, internet usage

Some things grab your attention. Here are a few, and I am deliberately not talking of Arvind Kejriwal’s allegations against India’s son-in-law, Robert Vadra:). The office of the CGA ( Comptroller & Auditor General of India) has been in the news for the last few months.

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Fight Breast Cancer

09 Sunday Oct 2011

Posted by Prem Rao in Work Life Balance

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India, urban life style, women

Article first published as Fight Breast Cancer on Technorati. Urban life styles are adversely affecting the health of women, especially in India. Fight breast cancer and spread awareness of how it is caused and how it can be cured.

Paradox that is India

22 Thursday Nov 2007

Posted by Prem Rao in Indian Economy, Trends

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India, Nariman Point, Robert Vadra

Reading today’s ” Times of India “underscores for me the paradox that is India. An item says that an apartment in Mumbai’s posh Nariman Point area was sold for Rs. 34 crore. The rate per square foot – an astonishing Rs. 97, 842 ! Just above, is another item which says that in 2005, the last year for which complete figures are available, there were as many as 312 suicides per day, one-third of them by women.

Robert Vadra is not subject to security frisking at India’s civil airports but the Chiefs of the defence services, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force are!! Robert Vadra is not the Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces. He happens to be the son-in-law of Congress Chief, Sonia Gandhi.

We have some the brightest people as well as some of the most primitive social systems. We enjoy the benefits of democracy with some of the worst violations taking place under the guise of democratic norms. In some aspects we are more Leftist than Communist China. We are proud of our past and yet do not learn lessons from it.

This is the paradox that it India. As many would say in India ” We are like that only”!

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