Words – Page 5 – Chandra Shekhar Chitrala

3 R’s to 4C’s – Rethinking Education

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Susant can be described as literate but uneducated – for though he has a degree, in Engineering no less, his education hasn’t made him employable in any of the sectors that he would like to work in. Instead, he today earns a living by delivering food – an occupation without job security or prospects of…

Treating India – Using Technology to Augment Healthcare

One of the happiest memories of my younger days was watching M*A*S*H on TV. The show was based on the experiences of the doctors and nurses of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the American military involvement in Korea. While it was mainly a humorous show focussed on a rebellious young doctor who hated the…

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…

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…

Government in firefighting mode

The central and state governments are caught in an unenviable position where they need to combat the effects of slowdown on incomes and jobs and simultaneously increase revenue collection to keep the economy running. The current slowdown in the Indian as well as global economies can be linked to a multitude of factors that are…

Social Distancing – Why it is so difficult

The current pandemic has brought to the fore one of our greatest shortcomings – the inability to maintain social distancing. On the face of it, it is one of the easiest things to do – but it has become the hardest rule to follow. We can use masks, clean our hands with sanitizers, consume all…