As and when Tata Motors’ Rs.1 lakh car comes to market, for them it’ll be technological breakthrough in terms price to consumers, while it’ll gladden the hearts of millions of prospective Indian buyers. Initially, Tata Motors’ plan to make car that cheap was pooh-poohed by other makers as they thought it was impossible. But now […]
All steels’ week
It’s a week of steel stealing a march in Bengal. For the industry-starved state, the year looks poised to end with good news, even though wayward opposition by vested interests against Tata’s proposed car plant at Singur still sticks in the neck. Coming to investments in steel in the state, one is a government initiative, […]
When IT comes calling
India’s common man’s first encounter with anything computer was perhaps occasioned when Indian Railway introduced online booking of long-distance train tickets. Then came computerization in nationalized banks where even small account holders could get their passbooks updated by the ubiquitous machines. Initial resistance to computers – especially by left trade unions – soon melted into […]
Thursday’s bandh
Several truths – you may call them lessons – came upon us during this Thursday’s bandh called by the left trade union, CITU (Center of Indian Trade Unions). If CITU wishes, life in Kolkata (and indeed in entire Bengal) can be brought to a total standstill. Nothing, but nothing can move. Not on road, none […]
Social networking
If you notice, you’ll see each blog-post here has options for viewers to tell others about it if they wish to. How can they do that? It’s rather simple. The series of icons at the bottom of every post and the 2 links right below each post’s heading at the top are in fact gateways […]
Raining truths
First it was Vir Sanghvi, who busted the myth of godman, Sathya Sai Baba (HT, Nov 26). Then it was Justice Rajendra Sachar Panel’s turn to prove false the claim that Muslims have more children than other communities. Here’s an excerpt from Dec 4 TT: “Strictly speaking, there is no ‘Muslim fertility’ as such in […]
Passionate but passé
Here’s an interesting post on Bengali Passion. He keeps margins on either side. We have Bengalis, who love their tea and keep reminiscing what a great tribe they were. And we have those who have seen it, done them. In the middle are those, who are striving with whatever meager that is available. The point […]
Employee attrition
Attrition is one word that has come into frequent use of late. In most cases, it describes people leaving organizations. We have what is called an attrition rate, which is the figure associated with number of people leaving over a given period. I suspect many companies routinely mention attrition rates in different departments in their […]
Patents grow, nation fails
As per Oxford Dictionary, the word ‘patent’ refers to official document conferring a right or title, especially the sole right to make, use or sell a specified invention. The catchword here is ‘invention’. What this means is that if you’ve invented or discovered something – usually related to science – you’ll want to put a […]
Sir Jagadish – who could win Nobel
Nearly 90 years after Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi co-shared the 1909 Nobel Physics Prize with Karl Ferdinand Braun for development of wireless telegraphy, the US-based IEEE (Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers) has in a special issue in January 1998 reported that it was Sir Jagadish, who first invented wireless communication, which was at least […]
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