Nitish Sengupta

Mar 31, 2010
Nitish Sengupta

Nitish Sengupta

Nitish Sengupta

Let Pandits return

March.18 : I support Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah’s proposal to allow people from the Kashmir Valley, who moved across the border and the ceasefire line in the early days of Kashmir’s accession to India, to return to their homes, so as to lead an honourable life as Indian citizens and enjoy all the rights and privileges which they do not have in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Although there are possibilities of undesirable elements also gaining entry, that can be controlled through proper intelligence, monitoring and surveillance.

Amarnath Yatra: Lost in translation?

A little over a decade ago, at the request of the then home minister Indrajit Gupta, I had conducted an inquiry into the Amarnath disaster of 1996. I had made 20 major recommendations, one of which was activisation of the shorter Baltal route to the holy cave in order to ease the hardship on the traditional route via Chandanwari and Sheshnag. Another was to set up a trust board for Amarnath on the lines of the trust for the Vaishno Devi shrine. All 20 recommendations were accepted and things moved smoothly. This year too the yatra is on, but the atmosphere has become extremely murky and tense on account of the parallel and opposing agitations in the Kashmir Valley and in Jammu.

If a banker can fight polls, why not civil servants too?

Meera H. Sanyal deserves acclaim for the courage she has shown in joining the Lok Sabha battle in Mumbai South. Whether or not she makes it is a different issue, but she has already managed to capture the nation's attention. She says she is frustrated with the state of the country's politics, with all-round hypocrisy and the lack of commitment towards the good of the nation. She laments the casual way in which serious problems are handled or simply cast aside by parliamentarians and politicians, and wants to bring a professional and managerial approach to dealing with these.

How recession made sarkari jobs attractive

Mar 21 : An unexpected aftermath of the Wall Street meltdown has been the return of the public sector to the top-end managerial job market in India. During 2007 and 2008, in the course of meetings of the public sector salary revision committee with the top management of Central public sector units, a constant refrain was that the public sector no longer attracted MBAs from good management schools and that the IIM graduates in particular were out of their league. IIM graduates were commanding fancy salaries from multinational investment bankers and FMCG companies, and public sector enterprises (PSE) were in no position to compete with them.

Pak’s ‘Muslim’ claim over J&K is bogus

July.16 : Once again with US President Barack Obama’s prompting the Kashmir issue has come to the forefront. In the last few months, Pakistan has seized every opportunity to voice its concern about a solution to the Kashmir issue at every possible international forum. This is in sharp contrast to the near-absence of the issue during the past two or three decades. The question then is how valid is Pakistan’s claim to be a party in the Kashmir issue?

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