Part 1 Part 2 Seven phase election expected to kick start April 11. Most to all will be engaged in heated discussions, whom to vote, which party, why or why not, and how to vote. Depending on who you are or who you are talking to invariably discussion comes to the critical juncture with the question, who will you choose between Modi Vs Rahul? Huh!! If it had been TN
Part 1 Part 3 I caught your attention with the controversial title, didn’t I 🙂? Dropping the words majority or minority in any gathering is enough to get the conversation heated up. No, I am not using the word majority or minority the way you are thinking. Here the context is with respect to our election outcome. Going by popular vote share most of the time we end up with
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Part 2 Part 3 Election fever picking up with Parliament elections around the corner. Stakes are high for both BJP and Congress, the two big national parties. Last year, 2018, Assembly elections have shown a power shift at State’s level, BJP lost power in few states, Congress did do well compared to previous election but they just scraped through with few additional
EVM (Electronic Voting Machine) is in news again. That it can be hacked and allegations about hacking in earlier elections. No need to get in to which party is saying what. We have seen every party worth its name has taken either side of the fence depending on whether they are in the ruling or opposition, or whether they won or lost the election. Let’s leave that to news channels
Link to India Growth Story – Progress, Myths, Looking Ahead – 4 of 5 So far, covered progress India has made in various vectors. While we are not there yet, there are still issues that require septic focus, good amount of road to cover, progress we have made so far itself is phenomenal something we need to be happy about. In this installment, I have given my take on what
Long Read. The World has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source – Lucretia Mott, an abolitionist, social reformer What should have ended up as an outstanding statement to the world has become a ground for political vote bank battle. Just imagine, for a second, what a moment it could have
Link to India Growth Story – Progress, Myths, Looking Ahead – 3 of 5 So far, covered Life expectancy, IMR, Child Mortality Rate, Immunization, Maternal Deaths, Birth Rate, Total Fertility Rate, and Population in earlier installments. Let’s take a look at Literacy rate, Access to Electricity, and Gender Parity in this Part. Education and literacy are other key indicators that needs to progress along with health. Literacy rate, adult literacy
Link to India Growth Story – Progress, Myths, Looking Ahead – 2 of 5 So far, covered Life expectancy, IMR, Child Mortality Rate, and Immunization Reach in previous parts. Let’s take a look at Maternal Deaths, Birth Rate, Total Fertility Rate, and Population in this third installment. Number of maternal deaths, as per World Bank, refers to the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination
Link to India Growth Story – Progress, Myths, Looking Ahead – 1 of 5 In Part 1, I covered India’s progress on Life Expectancy. Let’s move on to IMR and Child Mortality Rate in this second installment. Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year. It was ~200 in 1950s. Came down to 35
If you are reading this on your laptop/desktop/smartphone, you have arrived and a member of privileged lot, upper middle class or upper class in India. Which is good and be happy about. When it comes to India as a nation, if you were like me, you will be confused trying to know how India is doing, have we made progress or regressed. Irrespective of which newspapers you read, news channels