Words – Chandra Shekhar Chitrala

NEP 2020 and beyond – Reimagining the Education System

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I think it was around 20 years back that a distant relative of ours from Andhra Pradesh paid us a visit in the hope of securing a job here at Bhubaneswar. He had secured a decent 70% in his B.Com and was hoping that would help him in getting a suitable opportunity. Unfortunately, it was…

BMC – Balancing Progress with Business Friendliness

In the endeavor to make Bhubaneswar a truly Smart City, BMC needs to keep the needs of small businesses in mind The visit by BMC Commissioner Sri Prem Kumar Choudhury with his officials to the Unit-I and Unit-II markets and the decision to improve the conditions there, is a step in the right direction. At…

Transactional Analysis – The Means to Understand Ourselves and our Relationships

The quest to understand human nature and relationships is a fascinating journey. From the times of Freud, the study of the human mind has yielded a variety of theories on how we think, process information and react to our environment. While Freud introduced the concept of the Id, Ego and Superego, this was further refined…

The Antikythera Mechanism – Forgetting Knowledge

As someone fascinated by technology, reading about the oldest computer in the world was a revelation. It was more than 120 years ago, in 1900, that a shipwreck was discovered off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera by sponge divers. It was identified as a Roman cargo ship and over the next year, a…

Humour – The balm for trying times

The genre that I love reading the most is humour, and I confess to harbouring an intense envy of writers, who with such ease let loose a barrage of words that leave their readers clutching their sides as they roll about on the floor, laughing their hearts out. My earliest tryst with humour was through…

Educating India – Challenges to Prepare For

Over the last couple of weeks, I noticed a number of friends on Facebook applying a frame to their profile photograph saying they were proud to have studied in a government school. I do not know how this trend started, but it is a welcome one, for hopefully it will bring about a change, both…

Role of Culture in Independence from Colonizers

As India celebrates its 75th Independence Day, close by, in Afghanistan, the Taliban are poised to retake control of the country. And in all probability, they will portray it as getting independence from American occupation. While the Americans came into the country in 2001 with the mission of destroying the Taliban and establishing their version…

Ivory tower economists and the reality of Indian small businesses

Every year, we are privileged to first speculate, then listen to and finally analyse the annual budget. Before the budget, we also get the Economic Survey, that is supposedly the base upon which the budget is prepared. For a very long time, the populace used to wait for the budget with bated breath, hoping for…

BIRGing – The Lure of Reflected Glory

Long before Marvel came up with the idea of putting interesting snippets of the next movie in between the post movie credits, there were many who would watch the scrolling list of those involved in making the movies (especially English), to spot Indian names. And in recent years, with a lot of post production as…

Startups vs Small Business – Why understanding the difference is crucial

Startups have become the buzzword over the past few years in India as policy makers realized that there was no way the economy, as it exists now, can generate enough jobs. It is estimated that while around 12 lakh young people were entering the job market every year, pre-Covid, our formal economy was generating only…