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 IIM-Ahmedabad Batchmates Defend SEBI Chief Madhabi Puri Buch, Call Allegations ‘FalseSep 11, 2024
Is Madhabi Puri Buch, SEBI's chairperson, being unfairly targeted?  Buch’s batchmates from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A)  argue that the claims against her are baseless and have far-reaching implications for SEBI’s credibility. According to her batchmates, accusations regarding ESOPs, retirement benefits, and tax issues are misunderstandings or misrepresentations of the facts. They emphasize that Buch’s handling of her ESOPs and retirement benefits follows standard practices, and they refute claims about undue tax payments and moonlighting.

Madhabi Buch's IIM Ahmedabad classmates play fact-checker on Congress allegations https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/madhabi-buchs-iim-ahmedabad-classmates-play-fact-checker-on-congress-allegations/articleshow/113215786.cms 

 What is the Real Story of Unemployment in India? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-y_AG6JhM The Wire 
Sep 11, 2024
There are wide variations in the number and quality of employment generation in India, which largely stems from the data one uses to estimate these figures. Two prominent researchers in this field, Dr Surjit Bhalla and Dr Santosh Mehrotra, with differing opinions, will present their case .

https://thewire.in/society/the-republic-of-apathy 

The fact that our sustained apathy for corruption has enabled the dehumanising violation of women points to one of the most distressing realities of Indian life – the widespread and persistent lack of concern for the minoritised.

“As they say in India,” the economist Pranab Bardhan wrote in an influential paper on corruption, “in the US corruption is in the process of ‘making’ laws, in India it’s mostly in ‘breaking’ laws.” American – and generally Western – models of corruption require narratives of legitimisation that are often stamped with legislative authority.

In India, on the other hand, the ubiquity of corruption keeps its moral cost low – “everybody’s doing it so why not?” The long history of the public tolerance of corruption paves the ground for the political protection, indeed, the further enactment of corruption. Just break the law with impunity. The only legitimising narrative required here is that it is done all the time and no one really cares.

In this country, the spectre of corruption meets the zombie of apathy. This leads to something far more horrifying than corruption, but something that remains more safely hidden – its nourishment and celebration by its direct and indirect beneficiaries. This includes people in power and dominance as well as ordinary people, sometimes disenfranchised ones as well.

by Saikat Majumdar

08/09/2024