Ritinkar Dasbhaumik

blogs from Kolkata

Pollution and Taxation
Back in my final two years of high school, I took a little opted-for subject called EVS (as opposed to the compulsory EVE). Unlike EVE, EVS focused primarily on ecology and economics and was jointly taught by a biology teacher and an economics teacher(the latter of whom, was probably one of the best...
Posted on 15 July 2015 | 4:00 pm
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BLING! BLING!- Religious Idiocy DOES Hurt the Economy
Believe it or not, it does. Primarily, the fascination of South Asians with a pretty, yet otherwise useless commodity called 'gold'. In the fiscal year 2011-2012, India's total gold imports stood at around 56.5 billion USD while the Current Account Deficit was approximately 77.1 billion USD(4.2% of...
Posted on 15 July 2015 | 1:15 pm
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Do you really care about the saffronisation of education?
Short answer: Most of you don't give two fucks unless it happens at an 'elite' institution. Bourgeois much? Longer rant: If you really want to know, this process of saffronisation has been going on for quite some time now. It's really shocking that people only start caring when it happens at places...
Posted on 16 June 2015 | 11:26 am
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