The ministry of tourism is using this ancient adage to promote tourism by a publicity campaign. They are selling ‘Incredible India’. The ministry also started a campaign ‘Atithi devo bhavah’, which they claim- ‘A nation wide campaign that aims at sensitizing key stakeholders towards tourists, through a process of training and orientation’. They have also come up with some wonderful ads to promote this, with Aamir Khan as their brand ambassador- Continue reading
Category Archives: Economy
The Bhopal massacre
If there has been one story of a mass murder by a corporation then it is without doubt Bhopal! Need not mention that it is not the ‘system‘ that is responsible. All over Europe the maximum permissible storage limit for MIC (methyl isocyanate) is half a ton. At the Bhopal plant, the US company’s management overrode the wishes of the managers of its Indian subsidiary and kept the storage capacity hazardously high at over 90 tons! On the night of the disaster, 67 tons of MIC were stored in two tanks. They also decided to reduce operational costs by drastically cutting down maintenance personnel. Continue reading
Truth behind Bhopal
After the clumsy decision over Bhopal Gas Tragedy, in the past few days, newspapers and news channels have asked a question- “has the system failed us?” After writing yesterday’s article, I woke up in the middle of the night, and a question disturbed me- ‘who’ is this ‘system’? To find answers to it, I peeped into this chronology of events. Continue reading
Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink!
Why are we scared of drinking water? Everytime, when we travel, why are we afraid to drink water from railway station filters? Why do we so often come across shouts of “Don’t drink that water!” ringing in our ears? And we take the advice seriously- we pledge our loyalty to bottled water, we distrust the ability of water filters to tame the toughest bacteria, and the money we spend on water during an average day of travel, is more than the daily wages of half of our countrymen! Continue reading
My letter to Dr. Manmohan Singh
Dear Sir
Sir, my hearty congratulations on the completion of one year of your second term as the PM of this great country. It was really generous of you to address the press on this occasion, last Monday. You discussed your government’s performance in its first year, including your plans on the Kashmir issue. But sir, this was the first time in three long years and only the second in your six long years in office that you have subject yourself to open scrutiny by the media. Your interviews to Indian media have been very few, while you have been quite generous with the foreign media. For a government that speaks of the Right to Information era in this country, frankly, that’s a bad record. Continue reading
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 