GDP growth and Socio Political revolution. Here is my take, but before you read further I put in a Disclaimer. I am a trained Medical Professional. I am still not sure if I am fully qualified to deal with issues pertaining to Medical Profession, forget about giving opinions on Economics, Sociology & Geopolitics. Hence what I write / think are my own personal views, to be read by the readers at their own risk with a dollop of salt and....pepper. GDP growth: India enjoy a Demographic dividend (In lay terms Indias maximum population is 20/30 years of age, young & working). For this demographic profile 5 to 7 % GDP growth is its natural / intrinsic growth. The young working people consume & you have the economy expanding. If there is any growth above 7% the credit goes to external factors like Government policies & global geopolitics. Socio-political revolution: So any GDP growth below this threshold of 5 to 7% will lead to tremendous social unrest, riots and ...

Terror strikes in India: 11/7, 26/11, 13/7, 7/9: Terror strikes snuffing out dozens of innocent lives are meant to provoke anger, trigger outrage. However some reports never make any headlines and never invoke any feelings of angst, WHY? Unmarked Graves: According to a recent report by the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission, 2,156 bodies were found buried in several unmarked graves in dozens of villages in Kashmir.   "According to some human rights group, around 10,000 people have gone missing in the past 20 years, out of which many may have ended up in these graves,". Force-feeding India :   ‘Why don’t you cover Irom Sharmila’s decade-old fast with the same intensity as you did Anna Hazare’s 12-day fast?’ asked Binalakshmi Nepram, the founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network with characteristic passion. On stage in a live programme. “Perhaps, it’s because Ramlila Maidan is closer to television studios than Imphal,” was my ( Rajdeep...

A long time ago, may be in 2003/04, I am not remembering exactly right now, Big Bazar /Pantaloon opened there first Retail store in Mumbai, at Phoenix Mill. There were lot of Ads., Campaigns during that time. May be attracted by these promotions I decided to check out the store. So one Sunday evening I went to the store. There was a 'NO ENTRY' sign at the entrance. The store was bursting with people. On this wonderful Sunday, I had spent so much of my 'precious!' time to come all the way to Lower Parel, and they refuse entry to ME? Unko pata nahi hai ke mai kon huo, sabak sekhana padaega. To make them aware of 'mai kon hu" and to teach them a lesson, I took the typical Indian 'Juggad' way out. If entry is closed, no problem, go to the Exit. And so I went to the exit (from outside) and what do I see? There is a huge queue at all the Cash counters. Everybody is coming out with multiple carry bags and only after paying the bill. Ea...

We are in the midst of a revolution this monsoon. Either you are part of it, wearing an ‘I am Anna’ Toppi, or you are corrupt! Is it really so? At a time when disagreeing with team Anna is tantamount to treason, punishable with instant lynching, I stick my neck out in the hope that somewhere out there, some people still have some balance to read a contrarian view. Nobody, not even the builders & the politicians, deny that along with the arithmetic growth of  India’s GDP, Corruption has grown exponentially,   may be keeping pace with the Fibonacci series. If Thomas Malthus would have been an Indian and alive today he might have been forced to modify his Malthusian crisis (Population grows exponentially but Food supply grows arithmetically). Any agitation against the devil of corruption is fully justified. But where is the devil? Who feeds this devil so that it grows catastrophically? Is the devil outside or is it within?  Right from School admissions to ju...