by Dr. Venkatesh Balasubramanian - April 7, 2019
Like all things Bharat Sarkar, a Sarkari press conference with partial information of what the plan is and absolute silence on the process. This is a flaw that is excusable initially but consistently repeating it shall alienate the public, even ardent supporters.
by Dr. Venkatesh Balasubramanian - April 28, 2020
World War III, it seems isn’t between humans but with an entity that even in millions isn’t visible to humans. The enemy in the form of bacteria and Viruses have always been at the gates. However CoVID-19 has punched through defences and like Dominos, every pocket of settlement across the globe seem to falling. The enemy is now inside the gates and it shall not disappear because we wished or prayed. There has to be a bitter battle fought by everyone to hold the fort.
by Dr. Venkatesh Balasubramanian - April 7, 2019
Technology and manufacturing have always grown with growing defence expenditure. Ironically India's defence demand instead of building its capabilities has been draining its resources continually since independence. In fact, it has been compliant to let its political processes to be controlled by the supplier nation states or non-state actors (aka Multinational Corporations aka military industrial complexes).
by Dr. Venkatesh Balasubramanian - April 7, 2019
The nobility in thought of this Government to bring a comprehensive healthcare intervention is appreciable. In his budget announcement, Shri Arun Jaitely said that the Ayushman Bharat program will help build a New India 2022 to ensure enhanced productivity, wellbeing and avert wage loss and impoverishment. It has a planned timeline of 4 years for realising the impact of intervention. This program will have two parts, Health and Wellness Center (HWC) a foundation level care and a State sponsored insurance scheme for secondary and tertiary care called National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS). However it isn’t certain if the general elections of 2019 and its refractory period to effect major changes in Governmental process has been factored in the calculation.
by Dr. Venkatesh Balasubramanian - April 7, 2019
My introduction to Cashless economy came about 20 odd years ago as a graduate student. I'm FoB in the States and join the venerable Dharavi's, a/k/a graduate students staying in group and tandem near the school. This is the time of Max gyan coming in, particularly for a person of my background with a large expat family. Among the many conversations that I had was with one of my cousins, the first born among us and the real motherly elder one. By the virtue of being the oldest, dishing out motherly edicts came to her pretty early. With such extensive experience, no wonder she has done a darn good job with her kids.
by Dr. Venkatesh Balasubramanian - April 7, 2019
On Feb 16, 2016, a few minutes after my talk on #VLFM and why it is the panacea of all skill building for manufacturing, there was a press conference for which then Secy, DIPP Shri Amithab Kant requested me to join. That was in spite of me meekly protesting saying, I'm just an other faculty and not a Director like others who were going to be on stage.