Prakash Kumar

          When it comes to politics everything is right. In the midst of COVID there was no urgency to hold Bihar elections but it is happening since political masters at power thinks that this is the best time for a comeback to form government again in Bihar. If it is delayed then the Covid issues would be more visible in terms of job loss others  and it may affect the election adversely for the ruling alliance. People have no choice. PM Modi cautioning and closing down the country due to Covid has also started physical rally in Bihar.     S o, they are right, schools are still closed, colleges closed, normal movement is restricted, trains are still special but election is happening. Physical rally, interaction and all sorts of things are going in full swing. Even the opposition demanded to postpone the elections but it was turned down.      Sri Nitish Kumar is in power since 2005 barring a brief period when Sri Jitan Ram ...

     The world is reeling under COVID for 7-8 months except China and we are not far from million mortality due to Corona world wide.      The question that lingering to everyone from children to adult to senior citizens that when normal activities will begun. The definition of normal activities is different from person to person, region to region,country to country. But the return to normal means resumption of all social and economic activities around the World.      But it is not visible and may take another year or so to make the World Covid free or transitioning to the case where mortality becomes zero and people find their confidence back to venture out without fear of getting infected or vice versa.      There are two scenarios , one in which the entire world develops herd immunity. Slowly we are moving towards it but the current thinking is to reach the herd immunity by support of vaccine. Without vaccine also herd immun...

            Year 2020 is a silver jubilee year for mobile phones in India. It was started in 1995 by a call between Sri Jyoti Basu, CM, WB with telecom minister Sri Sukhram. Since then this sector has not looked back and immensely contributed for the transformation of India in several sectors after 1991 liberalization. It is growing leaps and bounds and currently having more than billion users. But the last 25 years was full of a coaster ride in mobile telephony in India.  Large numbers of companies were involved in providing mobile telecom services because the sector presents a new opportunity but haphazard planning and monitoring, too many players, small and big alike, spectrum allotment and absence of clear enforceable guidelines and lack of capacity of DOT and TRAI in managing the growth has fare share of controversy as well. The sector was marred by lot of controversy and the most notable one was 2G scam and which become one of the reason...

  Second time in this century world-wide mindless rush for Gold has been witnessed. First in 2008-2009 during financial crisis and the second still in progress during Corona pandemic. But this time it is speedier and in a very short time Gold prices reached a new level. Gold has been for centuries a dead investment product but psychologically very fulfilling as a possession to feel good. It does not have any sustainable growth potential but soothes the nerves as a hedge product during difficult times. So, it fit perfectly well during Corona outbreak to possess and feel the power of yellow metal. Gold and its associated generational feelings passed from generation to generation has maintained its glitter and genetic response to own it. It has no parallel and stand out as the most precious possession generation by generation. Older civilizations of India and Italy has much more fascination and crave for yellow metal and it is not only individual but family tradition and custom to own...

       Stock market is the one market where fear, grid, fickleness,panic response,anxiety  rules and most of the time with all above human fear related attributes  it tries to reflect real and logical with  the futuristic trend based on the health of real economy. But it is no where near to it. This market always discounts / credits the future happening in the sector/industry or specific stock and pare down or adjusts the prices much before the bad news or results reaches investors. Most of the time big operators, FPIs, Mutual funds and big broking houses takes a call much in advance giving no time for small retail investors. Small retail investors then take a call either too high or too low. So, this market is also full of cartelisation, insiders passing information and now a days AI to keep doing analysis of millions of daily trades to find out precise exit and entry for big fund houses. They in fact rule the market with ease, cutting technology at t...

     The tussle between democratic minded Hong Kong citizens and main land Chinese government has increased to new level in last one year. The life at Hong Kong got affected with regular barb and clashes with pro mainland Hong Kong government and freedom loving Honk Kong citizens. Last year marked too many protests almost every week with some very violent clashes with the police  by pro democracy people against increasing control of Hong Kong by Main land China.  And finally a new bill has been passed to curb several such freedoms granted to Hong Kong people.  It means slowly Hong Kong will replicate Mainland China in terms of curbing people’s freedom and their social/civic rights. Same restrictions will apply here .This is not a good news for the Hong Kong and its people. It will lose its status of one of the busiest World financial center  and also an open cosmopolitan, multicultural, democratic society as Special Administered Region (SAR) of China...

The new education policy (NEP) 2020 has surprisingly removed Mandarin from the foreign language option and won’t be available for students anymore. One can understand the current border stand-off between China and India which precipitated such action. May be Confucius institute around the world teaching Mandarin under cloud but omitting Mandarin from the foreign language list in India is certainly a over reaction. I am sure closing the door all of a sudden on Mandarin is not a futuristic decision. Mandarin is also one of the UN language and spoke by more than 150 crore people. It is not a small number. Language always provide us an insight to the peoples thinking, its culture and deep sensibilities as a communication medium directly one to one rather than getting it translated. Translation loses the soul out of it.        We cannot redraw the boundary with China and we will remain a neighbor  either as friends, enemy or none, it actually should depends on pe...