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Bihar Election 2015- My Different Opinions

Posted on October 17, 2015 by indra

1 बिहार के लोग अगर जाति के आधार पर भी भोट देना चाहते हों तो भी नीतीश कुमार उचित एवं बिश्वसनीय उम्मीदवार कहाँ हैं? पहले जब जीतने का मौक़ा बड़ी जातियों के भारतीय जनता पार्टी के साथ था तो उनके … Continue reading →

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गांधी जयन्ती और स्वच्छ भारत

Posted on October 2, 2015 by indra

आज नोयडा के मेघदूतम् पार्क में बरिष्ठ नागरिकों ने एक सफ़ाई अभियान का आयोजन किया । आश्चर्य यह था कि पार्क पहले से ही काफ़ी साफ़ था। देश में ‘स्वच्छ भारत’ अभियान का कुछ असर दिखाई देने लगा है । … Continue reading →

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Bihar: Two Rural Issues

Posted on October 2, 2015 by indra

Bihar is getting a torrential flood of promises of all types, 24×7 power, piped water, housing for all, hike in salaries, confirmations of the jobs and what not. But the question is with the Nitish Kumar’s speed of development how … Continue reading →

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Bihar Needs New Leader throwing out the old ones

Posted on September 4, 2015 by indra

Let me start with a story ‘How Nitish, Sonia, and Lalu failed to solve the menace of Kosi that would have been a priority’. I quote from an article that appeared in Business Standard: “Way back in 1953, then Prime … Continue reading →

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Nitish Kumar:Why I don’t like him anymore (continued)

Posted on July 21, 2015 by indra

I have been reading that ‘Babur’s grandson, Akbar, planted the “Lakh Bagh”, a mango orchard containing one lakh trees in Darbhanga, Bihar.’ What happened to that? Shershah and his sons built a number monuments that could have attracted thousands of … Continue reading →

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Make-in-India: Mobile Phones

Posted on July 11, 2015 by indra

If the media reports can be believed, many Indian and globally reputed companies will soon make India a phone manufacturing powerhouse. Announcement from Foxconn that wants to open 10-12 manufacturing facilities in India by 2020, is certainly a great news … Continue reading →

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Finding Zero: Indian or Old Khmer

Posted on July 8, 2015 by indra

I have just finished a book ‘Finding Zero’ by Amir D. Aczel. It has been a real interesting reading about the re-discovery of the earliest zero of our system we have ever found. A French scholar named George Coedès discovered … Continue reading →

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Nitish Kumar: Why I don’t like him anymore?

Posted on June 25, 2015 by indra

Nitish Kumar after working for a year or two for some low hanging items of development, went into full electioneering mode with a single objective of keeping the chief ministership of Bihar safe for himself by be-fooling the most illiterate, … Continue reading →

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Our Vacation in Kashmir

Posted on June 19, 2015 by indra

सुना था, पृथ्वी का स्वर्ग हैं कश्मीर । कुछ महीने ख़्याल आया यमुना के साथ अपनी शादी की हीरक जयन्ती मनाने का। सोचा असली स्वर्ग तो देख न पाऊँगा फिर अपने देश में जो स्वर्ग है उसे क्यों न देख … Continue reading →

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Make-in-India:How China is Killing Manufacturing

Posted on June 7, 2015 by indra

I had been writing about the Chinese manufacturing since 2005 after I had visited US and read there a lot on the Chinese manufacturing during my stay of six months. Every developed manufacturing country then was tired of the Chinese … Continue reading →

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