IIPM: October 2008

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Make way for Noddy!

Noddy and his friends bring Toyland and its treasures to India

He loves driving his friends around Toyland and delivering parcels in his little red and yellow taxi.

The other toys can hear him coming by the unique ‘Parp, Parp’ sound of his taxi’s horn and the jingle of the bell on his blue hat… So, did you hear him come? Well, all the kids present for the Noddy live show titled ‘Noddy and the Treasure Map Adventure’ on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of August at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi, sure did. All of them sprang up and cheered on their beloved Noddy’s entrance. Enid Blyton’s endearing little wooden boy – Noddy – created way back in 1949, has somehow sustained its popularity to the present day. So much so that the same ‘Adventure’ will play out in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata in the coming weeks. The show has various over-the-top devices, lights, sounds, special effects and stunts to create a larger-than-life fantasy for the audience. In the show, the evil goblins Sly and Gobbo give a mysterious treasure map to Noddy and his pals and they embark on an adventurous trip to discover what lies beneath Toyland. Their trip allowed for a lot of interaction and participation with not only the kids but also their equally thrilled parents. The story line completely enchanted the kids, and why wouldn’t it, it’s hard to go wrong with a treasure hunt adventure tailor-made for kids....click for Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Hey! Bush doesn’t own the White House either!

US policy is biased towards home owners, which is certainly a recipe for disaster

Owning a home lies at the heart of the American dream.” So declared President Bush in 2002, introducing his “Homeownership Challenge” – a

set of policy initiatives that were supposed to sharply increase homeownership, especially for minority groups.

Oops. While homeownership rose as the housing bubble inflated, temporarily giving Bush something to boast about, it plunged – especially for African-Americans – when the bubble popped. Today, the percentage of American families owning their own homes is no higher than it was six years ago, and it’s a good bet that by the time Bush leaves the White House homeownership will be lower than it was when he moved in.

But then, why should ever-increasing homeownership be a policy goal? How many people should own homes, anyway? Listening to politicians, you’d think that every family should own its home – in fact, that you’re not a real American unless you’re a homeowner. “If you own something,” Bush once declared, “you have a vital stake in the future of our country.” Presumably, then, citizens who live in rented housing, and therefore lack that “vital stake,” can’t be properly patriotic. Bring back property qualifications for voting! Even Democrats seem to agree....Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Relax, Pak has other problems too

Pakistan’s economy is almost on emergency mode; nobody’s worried!

Agriculture is the foundation of Pakistan’s economy. Almost 50% of their population is dependent on the agriculture sector.

While this year (07-08) the agricultural growth was targeted at 4.8%, the country unfortunately achieved merely 1.5%. The agriculture sector growth has fluctuated in the range of 1.5% to 6.5% during the last six years. And Pakistan’s economy is also suffering due to internal political disputes, a fast growing population and mixed level of foreign investment and costly imports of food, fuel and fertiliser. National savings were placed at 13.9% of GDP in 2007-2008, going down from last year’s high of 17.8%. Domestic savings have gone down to 11.7% of GDP from 16.16% of GDP in 2006-2007. Overall, foreign investment during the first ten months of the current fiscal year has declined by 32.2% and is now placed at $3.6 billion as against $5.3 billion compared to the same period last year. Pakistan’s current deficit extended to $11.6 billion during this year (again, first ten months of 07-08), which is over 7.8% of GDP, against $6.6 billion last year....continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Friday, October 03, 2008

Dragon... and a little fire

There is an uncanny similarity between the events in Tibet and what was written in the book Dragon Fire

‘Pakistan neutralized,’

read the encrypted message. Air Marshal Commodore Ravi Thapar received it in the code which still had not been deciphered by the United States and European experts. It was a simple message leading to a battle plan he had already drawn up. The Chinese forces which had been pushed into Arunachal Pradesh would now be cut off from behind and then destroyed. Part of it was revenge for the dreadful defeat by China on India in 1962. Part of it was sensible military strategy... These were the lines from the famous thriller Dragon Fire written by renowned BBC journalist Humphrey Hawksley in the year 2000.

This futuristic fiction which was sequenced in the time zone of 2007 is having its ramification felt right in 2008. Incidentally Dragon Fire is set against the backdrop of a Tibetan uprising propelled by a renegade group of soldiers belonging to India’s elite Special Frontier Force (SFF) most of whose recruits are incidentally Tibetan Buddhists. It was Major Gendun Choedrak and his men from the SFF whose mission was to rescue a Buddhist religious leader Lhundrub Togden from the Drapchi Prison in Lhasa, Tibet.....Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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