Imposition of formal rights and digital compliance mechanisms introduces new expectations for both employers and workers. This transition will require sustained awareness efforts.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Speaking to ThePrint, Salman Akram urges dignity in tragedy, recalling the loss of his brother, Wing Commander Nauman Akram, in similar crash & the mockery his family faced after.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Swati – you put in well in terms of Modi’s need for magical realism to surpass his own previous phantasmagoric image. But its not that Modi’s image which is winning a pure game of symbols , but his total control on resources/ media and discourse. In fact, the new Rahul is quite confident and consistent, and the old Rahul image was also partly built by the same money-media complex that Modi actively controls.
Modi was flying in a seaplane because there is going to be a massive structural shift in employment. As automation creeps in and takes away jobs primarily in the manufacturing sector, it is the service industries like tourism that will accomodate human power in India (that aspires to be a superpower). Seaplanes facilitate the success of such a service sector, and showcase possibilities.
Swati – you put in well in terms of Modi’s need for magical realism to surpass his own previous phantasmagoric image. But its not that Modi’s image which is winning a pure game of symbols , but his total control on resources/ media and discourse. In fact, the new Rahul is quite confident and consistent, and the old Rahul image was also partly built by the same money-media complex that Modi actively controls.
Modi was flying in a seaplane because there is going to be a massive structural shift in employment. As automation creeps in and takes away jobs primarily in the manufacturing sector, it is the service industries like tourism that will accomodate human power in India (that aspires to be a superpower). Seaplanes facilitate the success of such a service sector, and showcase possibilities.