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Book Review: Why the poor don't kills usThe title attracted me. I wish any Indian Economist had the courage to write this book. According to all recognized economic theories Indian inequality must have triggered us into a social anarchy several years (if not decades) back. Indian State's first non-communicable disease is inequality. I think it was Galabrith who said that if the society reaches an inequality of 1:30 it will descend into chaos and people will kill each other in the states (i may be wrong with the number). Recently I read that some of our IT companies have a disparity…
Seven years ago, I witnessed a crime at the altar of ‘development’—one that continues unchecked today: the deliberate refusal to see that what most of us call “rural development” is, in fact, just urban arrogance dressed as policy.Back then, I was summoned as the token “insider” to a high-powered government meeting —tasked, along with sophisticated sounding consultants from a global funder, to redesign the future a rural development programme. The experts from the multilateral spoke with polished confidence, their PowerPoints shining; the government team, by contrast, shrank into hesitancy,…
“Language is not only a social system of verbal icons, arbitrarily assembled through ages, it is also a ‘means’ of carrying forward the cumulative human experience of millennia to the future generations. When language trajectories are snapped, the accumulated wisdom in those languages too gets submerged and continues to survive in severely truncated, irreparable, and insensible forms.”Among the finest books I have read this year thus far. The foremost linguist of India has brought out a publication that leaves you breathtaking in place due to the vast expanse of historical and social…
What will the lecture be on? Indian Management Knowledge (IMK) is a compilation of the diverse management knowledge that communities of India have built over long periods as sustainable and resilient practices. It has worked for them over centuries, it can work for current corporates too. What will the lecture cover?The 2-part 3 hour online lectures will cover the following - What is Indian Management KnowledgeWhy is it relevant todayHow can we address the uncertain times with this knowledgeSome applications and tools Who is it meant for?For executives with real…
Academia modelled by the 15th century European imagination is dying or dead already. Along with it the academic conferences as well. A new emergence is happening, and it is coming from the margins, civil society, and collaboration among some courageous academics as well. It is coming from the old civilizations - Africa, South America and India as well. I attended three such events in the last month, I prefer to call them not as ‘’conference’’ as much as ‘’gathering’’ of consenting people to be in a gathering. The stewards of these new emergences are inspired and energized by the previous…
Conference and Seminars in Academic institutions often follow template of bygone era when knowledge was considered as prerogative of “scholars” and everyone else was expected to thankfully slurp their verbiage. The Learning Society UnConference (LSUC) 2025 at Kumaraguru College of Technology Coimbatore by Shikshantar Aandolan and the Multiversity Alliance India is one of the most enjoyable gatherings I have can in recent times. LSUC was different from academic Conferences as the name indicates. Diverse gathering of about 800 people, lots of kids and parents together, academics, activists,…