Category: Public Service Announcement

Emergic: Rajesh Jain’s Weblog on Emerging Technologies, Enterprises and Markets is back on the air after a hiatus of a few months.
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The Dec 2007 issue of Pragati is out. Click on the image below for a pdf copy of the magazine.

I have a piece on why India should invest in solar power R&D (which is posted here on this blog.) Quick look at the content below the fold. Continue reading “Pragati — Private Property, Right!”

I am often asked by people if they can re-publish my blog posts. Most of what you read on this blog is original in the sense that I write the stuff and therefore by common convention, automatically the copyright to the material belongs to me. I have the freedom to assign rights to my work to others of course. There is an extremely flexible mechanism which has been developed for this purpose and I think it is worthwhile for us to become familiar with it — or if you already know it to some extent, revising your understanding of it. I am referring to the Creative Commons, an institution which is attempting to (and has succeeded to a marvelous degree) create a lot of middle ground between the polar extremes of “All Rights Reserved” — generally denoted by the (C) sign — and “Public Domain” — where the author has no rights at all.

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Today I am blogging at “Why Democracy?” and have just published a post on Democracy in India.

The idea behind the Why Democracy? project appears to me to be to ask what democracy actually means and if it works as advertised, and if not, what are the deficiencies in the real places where it exists, etc. Go check it out.

Here’s the lastest issue of Pragati. Go get it by clicking on the image below.

Contents

PERSPECTIVE: Soft power, hard reality, Channel !ndia, The Indian corporate century, Climate change & international security

FILTER: On India-US relations; India’s consumer market; The Doha round and free trade in services; Productivity miracle; and Climate change and the Indian farmer

IN DEPTH: Leveraging Remittances

ROUNDUP: Microfinance: Charting new territory; Globalisation: Readying for the next round

BOOKS: In extenso: Six great revolutions; Review: PLU engaged in WMD

Get your copy fresh off the press here.

Contents :
Editorial – A leap of faith
Perspectives – on Pakistan at the crossroads, and on the abuse of ‘social justice’
Roundup – on Bangladesh’s disappearing democracy, flying tigers, a report on clean energy and the missing debate on property rights and institutional autonomy
Agenda – unshackling education

Do read and share!

I am pleased to announce the arrival of a new publication titled “Indian National Interest Review — Pragati” (which in Hindi means “progress”). I reproduce here in full the superbly crafted editorial of the first issue.
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If you have been unable to access blogspot today (as I have been), then here is a work around. Use Anonymouse.org.

This public service announcement has been made possible by a grant from the Freedom Foundation (which hopes to have an office in India in a few centuries.)

Dear friends,

As you know one of the biggest problems today is that Indian journalists are not always proud of their own culture and roots and as result tend to have a very negative outlook on India, which in turn influences western correspondents posted in India. It is therefore very important that we train a new generation of Indian journalists. It is for this purpose that we have started a new school of journalism in Bangalore called the Sri Sri Center for Media studies. There, we teach the best of journalistic knowledge, both print and electronic, along with classes (which I take myself) on Indian history, the ideal of true journalism and a little bit coaching in pranayama and meditation these two ancient Indian sciences which impart a good and intuitive mind.
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