India - Focus on agriculture for a strong Future

The Turn of centuary saw India emerging as a strong economy. This was attributed to the strong policies and a young and vibrant democracy; Acadmically inclined youth and a desire to succeed. But one of the main reason other than the opportunities for business here is the fact that wages were lower compared to the more developed economies. But has anyone wondered why the wages are low. Its simply coz the food cost is low. Food consumption is the major driver of the economy. Consider this, The money earned by a person is primarily spent on food , clothing and shelter. As far as India Is concerened food and clothing we are self sufficient. This helped us in keeping the prices of these commodities low.

So here is the catch. In this season of inflation we should ask ourselves what is happening? The country is not able to meet the food requirements of this nation with a vast poppulation that with sufficient spending power. The continued increase on prices of essenstial commodities would result in an upward salry demand. This would on the long run result in India not being a preferred partner in trade as salary would match that of developed nations. This may happen within the next 25 years at the current inflation rate. The prices of goods are expected to be 5 times of what it is now.

The only way to prevent that and protect the country's growing stature is to ensure food security. There should be a strong focus on agriculture, and the next 5 year plans should give prime importance to this. A green revolution and a white revolution made India what it is today. Thanks to the efforts of Swaminathan and Kurien we are a nation that rarely imports food. But times are changing and if we are not prepared to meet the increased demand, a good chance that the inflation would consume us and result in slowing down of industrialisation. A consumer state is always on the tenter hook. This is what happened to US in the recent times. A reason why they had  to go for outsourcing.

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IPL The new Big Bully

I ll try to keep this short and frank.

If IPL is what you are looking forward to.. well consider this IPL itself is taking everything backwards. It has become a huge monopolistic organisation that would beat the Ego of the erstwhile East India Company. IPL 3 is more bigger and this time around you would be able to watch the matches on the Big screens. Its expected to be more colorful and more fun to watch out for.

But consider this, IPL has prohibited newscasters from broadcasting match clippings for more than 7 minutes a day. Even that can happen only after 30 minutes post the presentation ceremony.  Fans wearing a rival competitors tee shirt would have to remove it and wear the sponsors tee shirt in the stadias. I.e if you and I happen to sport a Airtel Tee shirt , some organizers would come, politely request me to strip it off and wear the Vodafone T- shirt.

Dont I have the freedom to wear what I wish? Is the 4th estate a mere puppet? 

People think, we are feeding a monster that dictates terms on how to enjoy a sport.

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A Buzz of Scraps, Tweets and Posts

' The computer beats me @ checkers, but i'll sure beat it at kickboxing '. A 'buzz' by my friend remarking about his Acer Laptop. Welcome my friends , to the connected world , where your only limits of communication is your imagination. To the people who are still hocked on to blogs, articles, cases and magazines, explore for yourself how the world has adopted or rather become competent in the use of language. Someone thought " I dont have the time to go through endless pages of data, but sure I 'll consider if its said in a sentence." This is the underlying concept of the new world order i.e communication ver 3.0

Here we are, it’s a pity that you people are still reading this blog when I could have simply said, " I like Buzz better than Scraps but would prefer tweets over posts." Sounds simple isn't it? Well there you are, this is how the world wishes to communicate right from POTUS {Abr: President of The United States} to a common man like me. When one turns back a couple of and looks at how much the world has changed, one would say not a big deal. But everything has changed about the way we think. There was a time when people rarely wished to express themselves. But look now, even if you are yawning away to glory in an economics class one doesn’t' hesitate to tweet about it.

Here is where the beauty is. Now imagine the economic professor is also part of the network, instantly he can change the way the class is presented, the least asking the student to step out of the class!! This is where we have reached. Instant communication. One liners have become more fashionable and the more you are creative, more the fun it is.

Long gone are e mails, on its way out is blogs (except for academic writing) and will be replaced by instant communication.

The biggest gainers are the marketing people. If I happen to be a marketing guy I would immediately spot that the fellow is not too happy with his Acer Notebook. Either I would try to find out what his problem is or simply post a link that would lead to more fashionable and latest notebook. Marketing will be redefined in this decade. A whole new set of ideas must be found out on how to use the latest form of communication. Meanwhile folks who have not tried Twitter or Buzz or Facebook, do soon or die! You are missing out on loads of fun that’s happening right on your fingertips.

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