Farrhana Bhatt’s presence on Bigg Boss 19 can’t redefine Kashmir. But it can remind the Valley that Kashmiris deserve to be seen in their full human range—not squeezed into specific categories.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
India is now the only country still operating the Jaguar, long retired by its original users, France in 2005 and the UK in 2007, and secondary operators like Oman, Nigeria and Ecuador.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
why mot?
A Massive Campaign of Indian Youth Against Unemployment
became a massive campaign demanding Jobs & transparency in exams
Lined up by the students and the educators demanding employment and fair conduct of exams across the country. the rate of unemployment that has sparked in the last couple of years and irregularities in the Process of the recruitments of SSC, railway and other state level Exams have finally led to this digital strike and a massive campaign of Indian youth against unemployment from Prime Minister Modi.
The Print and many of its sisters are simply opinion sites. They don’t pretend to write analytical notes. How many times do we see data, information and analysis in their articles. These days even the Government does not seem to use data. All of us have to simple look at Consumer Confidence Survey of the RBI and then talk about what people’s concerns are. It is a 13 city survey. I saw RBI referring to it for the first time during the October meeting. The supreme leader and the cronies, including many of us, lie in our own face. What is the big deal in being a 5T economy when millions will and are continuing to suffer from malnutrition, evening after reaching 5T. Shivam’s articles are not very different from what Mr Gupta writes. Even ET and other business papers write not differently – they are simply there to serve vested interests or ideology. I always remind myself of their approach to writing, before I read.
If you see under what head this article is published, it is Opinion. I think it’s pretty clear. There is a separate section for Economics.
It’s also not correct to say that all publications write Opinion pieces only. Ninnan in this publication and Gulati in Indian Express are good examples of writing that combines facts with a style that is more if an Opinion piece – what you call analytical notes.
India’s main problem is redistribution of wealth. So even in a 20tr economy you’ll have people suffering from malnutrition.
The BJP government is cutting funding for education (Rs. 3000 crores) but goes ahead splurging on Defence, thousands of crores.
Thank you, Rajiv. I did not mean to say that no one is writing analytical papers. And that is why I had mentioned “The Print and many of its sisters”. You are absolutely right that it is about distribution. I would like to add – it is about distribution of opportunity to start with – how do we ensure that all of us have equal opportunities. the problem of wealth or income distribution comes in later. if the elite get to fill up the most important positions, the equity in providing opportunity is gone. I also agree with you about 3K cut. it is shameful that we cut education budget when the man spends ‘000s of crores on self-publicity and the even the CMs buy jets for travelling a distance of 500 kms or near about. Such choices amuse me, particularly the fellows tell us that they are like fakirs or simple men who know what poverty is all about.
Lost opportunity is not always unfair. A retard is mentally slow but otherwise physically OK. With great effort we got him a job as a waiter in a eatery. On a surprise visit to see how he is doing, we found him in the kitchen washing plates and glasses. On further query the manager said he was OK but today the guest/customers were too important and he was afraid the “slow” waiter would spill something on the guests. Was he fair.? Will he ever get a chance, Anecdotal survey says 50/50. yes/no.
Maybe it’s getting ready for war. After the war the population will definitely diminish and the remaining will find many jobs to reconstruct the ruins.
The answer is pretty much summed up in these lines :
{“Out of 100 people, all 100 are affected directly by food inflation. But a 7% unemployment rate means only seven are unemployed.”
That explains the absence of collective social angst against unemployment. }
Yet it seems The Enlightened opinion makers like the author of the column want to dictate on what issues ppl should protest and on what not. Most Protests like Arab Spring, HK , Anna Hazare’s India Against Corruption, or Delhi’s Nirbhaya protest do not need serious contemplation by the protesters it simply happens because they feel injustice deep within.
Protesting involves cost in terms of time & energy and even money. People protest when certain injustice becomes intolerable, crosses tolerable threshold. The absence of protest for unemployment is indicative that the threshold has not been breached.
Shameless Liars…
Job is not just about creating Engineers or Doctors .. there are millions of other jobs as well… we need to look into dignity of labor… but these shameless morons think only White/Blue collor jobs are the only jobs!..check your brain checked!
We had a set of govts that used piss in corner of our house and the stink was bad. Everyone blamed the hell out of them. So now we have got a govt thats shitting right in the center and no one simply cares.
Mandal changed everything. Now all such protests are caste based. In fact Indian politics is all about continuance of caste supremacy and overcome its threats.
How do you manage to write third rate articles time and again. You guys are not in a position to hypothesise something. You should stick to simple reporting and simple analysis. Have you ever recruited anyone? Please recruit delivery personnels for anything less than 23K a month? Try getting skilled man power such as plumbers and carpenters. Or try hiring high skilled software engineers or doctors. The area where employment is hard to come by is easily replaceable white collar jobs (accountants, entry level teachers , quality control engineers at certain industries etc.).
So please do some ground research before hypothesising. Or better leave the hypothesizing to experienced hands – P.Chidambaram can hypothesize but you can not do
Most of our politicians are village boors. They cannot see beyond their collective noses. They don’t have the faintest idea about job creation, sustainable development.They don’t take advice from people who can guide them. This is especially true of the present central government.
It is true that the economy needs to be revived. However this article uses childish logic like – people have lost so much hope that they see no point in protesting, Do we really have credible figures of unemployment? The Finance Minister has taken several measures lately for economic revival. We expect more measures leading to the budget that enhance consumption – production – employment cycle. This article is rather superficial in its content.
Dear Mr. Shekhar Gupta,
For ages, this chap has been writing crap and both the quality of his writing and the depth of his arguments/statistics fail to meet even the lowly standards of quality that your portal follows (leaving out a decent article once in a while). Am sure you must be paying him something (even if peanuts) for writing. I am sure, even for peanuts, you can find much better writers.
To summarize, please do your portal a service by a formal goodbye to this jerk.
Thank you
Why do you keep coming back to this site? Just disappear if you don’t like what Shivam writes.
You are yet to show where he is wrong.
!! Asatyam Shivam Sadaa Sandesham !!
All your shameless defence and finding no wrong of this Shivam We…zzzzzz leads to only one conclusion!
Enjoy.. both of you.. chuddi-buddies !!
I had previously even asked you that ‘are you related him?’. Now I have the answer.
One problem with people who comment here is that they lack a basic sense of logic. And that includes you.
Where have I defend Shivam’s point of view? I haven’t even analyzed it! What I’m defending him against is unwarranted and illogical attacks from the likes of you.
I really like your candid response and can fully appreciate the reasons for your irritation 🙂 Honestly.
RR: this forum should be a place for serious discussions about India and its problems. Instead it degerates into silly name calling and personal attacks.
Sad.
Unemployment
Simple solution. Don’t read his article and don’t come here. You can’t decide for others.
true
The question should be flipped around: why Shivam Vij is protesting against rising employment !
India has always had a poor labour force participation rate, especially compared to its SE Asian neighbors. There are several reasons for it. A change in that statistic alone explained by
“The people dropping out of the labour force are, in all likelihood, those who have given up on finding employment”
is like throwing a dart hoping to find a bullseye. This is lazy intellectualism.
Moreover, it could have been easily avoided. One could have conducted interviews and surveys etc even an anecdotal narrative would have been better.
To help the author out, one should perhaps look into the dissatisfaction around NREGS and the fact that the scheme is being poorly implemented and incompletely funded. The author could probably make their headline by exploring this issue alone.
Shivam is out of depth on serious economic matters and it shows. His juvenile analysis is comical and made up over an afternoon tea.
We will think of which opposition leader can create millions of jobs during the next general election campaign. Till then, there is a popularly elected government which has to work on it, if 2014 – 2024 is not to go down in our modern history as a wasted decade. 2. As for people not protesting against unemployment, was that not at the heart of the Jat / Maratha / Patel agitations ? If the electoral mood is changing, both unemployment and economic distress lie at the heart of it. 3. So much effort and political capital being expended on ideology driven issues, even as real issues are becoming more intractable.
Does this great article absolve the past 70 years of congi rule?
And nehruvian socialism behemoths like public sector white elephant?
Why cant the trade unions mostly left support amendment to industrial disputes act,?
Blaming the BJP govt is not a solution
Be the answer not part of the problem
why mot?
A Massive Campaign of Indian Youth Against Unemployment
became a massive campaign demanding Jobs & transparency in exams
Lined up by the students and the educators demanding employment and fair conduct of exams across the country. the rate of unemployment that has sparked in the last couple of years and irregularities in the Process of the recruitments of SSC, railway and other state level Exams have finally led to this digital strike and a massive campaign of Indian youth against unemployment from Prime Minister Modi.
You are reading a Print paper version of “Go to Pakistan”. You do not like so and so leave, do not read him. Sheesh, so childish!.
The Print and many of its sisters are simply opinion sites. They don’t pretend to write analytical notes. How many times do we see data, information and analysis in their articles. These days even the Government does not seem to use data. All of us have to simple look at Consumer Confidence Survey of the RBI and then talk about what people’s concerns are. It is a 13 city survey. I saw RBI referring to it for the first time during the October meeting. The supreme leader and the cronies, including many of us, lie in our own face. What is the big deal in being a 5T economy when millions will and are continuing to suffer from malnutrition, evening after reaching 5T. Shivam’s articles are not very different from what Mr Gupta writes. Even ET and other business papers write not differently – they are simply there to serve vested interests or ideology. I always remind myself of their approach to writing, before I read.
I don’t understand your point.
If you see under what head this article is published, it is Opinion. I think it’s pretty clear. There is a separate section for Economics.
It’s also not correct to say that all publications write Opinion pieces only. Ninnan in this publication and Gulati in Indian Express are good examples of writing that combines facts with a style that is more if an Opinion piece – what you call analytical notes.
India’s main problem is redistribution of wealth. So even in a 20tr economy you’ll have people suffering from malnutrition.
The BJP government is cutting funding for education (Rs. 3000 crores) but goes ahead splurging on Defence, thousands of crores.
Thank you, Rajiv. I did not mean to say that no one is writing analytical papers. And that is why I had mentioned “The Print and many of its sisters”. You are absolutely right that it is about distribution. I would like to add – it is about distribution of opportunity to start with – how do we ensure that all of us have equal opportunities. the problem of wealth or income distribution comes in later. if the elite get to fill up the most important positions, the equity in providing opportunity is gone. I also agree with you about 3K cut. it is shameful that we cut education budget when the man spends ‘000s of crores on self-publicity and the even the CMs buy jets for travelling a distance of 500 kms or near about. Such choices amuse me, particularly the fellows tell us that they are like fakirs or simple men who know what poverty is all about.
Lost opportunity is not always unfair. A retard is mentally slow but otherwise physically OK. With great effort we got him a job as a waiter in a eatery. On a surprise visit to see how he is doing, we found him in the kitchen washing plates and glasses. On further query the manager said he was OK but today the guest/customers were too important and he was afraid the “slow” waiter would spill something on the guests. Was he fair.? Will he ever get a chance, Anecdotal survey says 50/50. yes/no.
Maybe it’s getting ready for war. After the war the population will definitely diminish and the remaining will find many jobs to reconstruct the ruins.
The answer is pretty much summed up in these lines :
{“Out of 100 people, all 100 are affected directly by food inflation. But a 7% unemployment rate means only seven are unemployed.”
That explains the absence of collective social angst against unemployment. }
Yet it seems The Enlightened opinion makers like the author of the column want to dictate on what issues ppl should protest and on what not. Most Protests like Arab Spring, HK , Anna Hazare’s India Against Corruption, or Delhi’s Nirbhaya protest do not need serious contemplation by the protesters it simply happens because they feel injustice deep within.
Protesting involves cost in terms of time & energy and even money. People protest when certain injustice becomes intolerable, crosses tolerable threshold. The absence of protest for unemployment is indicative that the threshold has not been breached.
we need a similar piece on “Why there are no protests for Police Reforms”
“People protest when they think it will achieve something” . HK protester protesting after 6 month … “really” ???
Unemployment in some states high
Shameless Liars…
Job is not just about creating Engineers or Doctors .. there are millions of other jobs as well… we need to look into dignity of labor… but these shameless morons think only White/Blue collor jobs are the only jobs!..check your brain checked!
We had a set of govts that used piss in corner of our house and the stink was bad. Everyone blamed the hell out of them. So now we have got a govt thats shitting right in the center and no one simply cares.
Mandal changed everything. Now all such protests are caste based. In fact Indian politics is all about continuance of caste supremacy and overcome its threats.
How do you manage to write third rate articles time and again. You guys are not in a position to hypothesise something. You should stick to simple reporting and simple analysis. Have you ever recruited anyone? Please recruit delivery personnels for anything less than 23K a month? Try getting skilled man power such as plumbers and carpenters. Or try hiring high skilled software engineers or doctors. The area where employment is hard to come by is easily replaceable white collar jobs (accountants, entry level teachers , quality control engineers at certain industries etc.).
So please do some ground research before hypothesising. Or better leave the hypothesizing to experienced hands – P.Chidambaram can hypothesize but you can not do
Most of our politicians are village boors. They cannot see beyond their collective noses. They don’t have the faintest idea about job creation, sustainable development.They don’t take advice from people who can guide them. This is especially true of the present central government.
It is true that the economy needs to be revived. However this article uses childish logic like – people have lost so much hope that they see no point in protesting, Do we really have credible figures of unemployment? The Finance Minister has taken several measures lately for economic revival. We expect more measures leading to the budget that enhance consumption – production – employment cycle. This article is rather superficial in its content.
Can anybody talk of stopping birth rate which main reason every second @ 2000 birth is taking place
Dear Mr. Shekhar Gupta,
For ages, this chap has been writing crap and both the quality of his writing and the depth of his arguments/statistics fail to meet even the lowly standards of quality that your portal follows (leaving out a decent article once in a while). Am sure you must be paying him something (even if peanuts) for writing. I am sure, even for peanuts, you can find much better writers.
To summarize, please do your portal a service by a formal goodbye to this jerk.
Thank you
True
Why do you keep coming back to this site? Just disappear if you don’t like what Shivam writes.
You are yet to show where he is wrong.
!! Asatyam Shivam Sadaa Sandesham !!
All your shameless defence and finding no wrong of this Shivam We…zzzzzz leads to only one conclusion!
Enjoy.. both of you.. chuddi-buddies !!
I had previously even asked you that ‘are you related him?’. Now I have the answer.
One problem with people who comment here is that they lack a basic sense of logic. And that includes you.
Where have I defend Shivam’s point of view? I haven’t even analyzed it! What I’m defending him against is unwarranted and illogical attacks from the likes of you.
I really like your candid response and can fully appreciate the reasons for your irritation 🙂 Honestly.
RR: this forum should be a place for serious discussions about India and its problems. Instead it degerates into silly name calling and personal attacks.
Sad.
Unemployment
Simple solution. Don’t read his article and don’t come here. You can’t decide for others.
true
The question should be flipped around: why Shivam Vij is protesting against rising employment !
India has always had a poor labour force participation rate, especially compared to its SE Asian neighbors. There are several reasons for it. A change in that statistic alone explained by
“The people dropping out of the labour force are, in all likelihood, those who have given up on finding employment”
is like throwing a dart hoping to find a bullseye. This is lazy intellectualism.
Moreover, it could have been easily avoided. One could have conducted interviews and surveys etc even an anecdotal narrative would have been better.
To help the author out, one should perhaps look into the dissatisfaction around NREGS and the fact that the scheme is being poorly implemented and incompletely funded. The author could probably make their headline by exploring this issue alone.
Shivam is out of depth on serious economic matters and it shows. His juvenile analysis is comical and made up over an afternoon tea.
We will think of which opposition leader can create millions of jobs during the next general election campaign. Till then, there is a popularly elected government which has to work on it, if 2014 – 2024 is not to go down in our modern history as a wasted decade. 2. As for people not protesting against unemployment, was that not at the heart of the Jat / Maratha / Patel agitations ? If the electoral mood is changing, both unemployment and economic distress lie at the heart of it. 3. So much effort and political capital being expended on ideology driven issues, even as real issues are becoming more intractable.
Does this great article absolve the past 70 years of congi rule?
And nehruvian socialism behemoths like public sector white elephant?
Why cant the trade unions mostly left support amendment to industrial disputes act,?
Blaming the BJP govt is not a solution
Be the answer not part of the problem
An irrelevant comment. 70 years of congress rule has nothing to do with the subject oof this column.