Soft Loan and International Business

Ex. US Aid, ADB, World Bank , IFC, IMF, AFD all these give soft loans to countries so that their companies can win contracts to develop business and project in developing counties. It sounds like Cristian and Arabic missionaries coming with good food and cloth and later come there trouble makers and then comes sebsevieance.

Hindu Muslim Unity - French guy's perspective

I feel sad that i am writing the blog after one month. I should write more and develop more.
This blog is personel and has nothing to do with my professional blogs however i m too lasy to create a another blogpost.

One of my colleagues whom I met after one year in Ahemdabd discussed a lot about Indian culture, history and what it is loosing to what it is gaining. He really made me realised how backward in my thinking i am too him. He was talking about the Kabir, Raheem, Mirza Galib, whom i just heard but never tried to explore them in depth or tried to understand them. However what was more striking was his understanding of Indian muslims to which being an Indian i am a complete stupid. Once a visit to the Indian walled cities no matter where Delhi, Ahemdabad, Lucknow, Bhopal, one gets the view that muslims in India live in a segregated society, gettoed like jews to places where nobody wants to visit. Is this true? I had an argument for him, i said that those walled cities onces used to be the places of richness, economy and affluence and hindus never had access to those places. They were known as the hightown and where hindus lived used to be known as the low town. But whatever, if thats the case, as we must live in present and look at the future with a sense that India needs to be strong both from Inside and outside and for that everybody needs to move forward.
1. I was in Paris as Institute the monde Arab, i mean it is suppose to be a place, a knowledge centre for arabic learning, but its really nothing. We in India hve such wonderful things about persian culture, art, society, music, architecture that we must promote it. We must preserve this arabic/persian cultre and promote it. Its notonly a source of revenue but also a sourse of our pride. Ex - TajMahal.
In spain are crasy about Granada, some arabic mounument there called Alambara, but in India we have 100 s of such Alambaras that are dyring due to negligence.

2. Books, Poetry, Music, Art : Where in the world can find such wonderful form of music, art, poetry, philosophy, books. We must promote that kind of thinking, philosophy and idea. Its hard to understand that lucknow, hydrabad, once the centres of learning are dying due to negligence. The psudo hinduism whre we are getting which is a mix of western consumersim+ american was of terrorism is making the whole idea of muslim culture is evaporating.

3. Festivals : In Ahemdabad, people talk in low voices when one talks about moving to walled city/old city. I am going to the walled city tonight to eat the tasty hot Muglai food and celebrate Ramzan with people around. Why cant everybody does that? Why people are afraid to celebrate different religion all around the world.

Views are invited.

thanking you.

BR
Anirudh AGrawal


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Economics of a Beggar ???

During the course of the article I would raise few questions and through shall try to find the answers.

1. Why is begging bad, filthy and disrespectful in the society?
- I really dont know the answer to this question. I mean if I am really loathing, cant do anything, can make other person sick at the very sight on me, i think i am doing a good job of making money. I think that is trading where i am trading my helplessness against someone's feeling of guilt. But i cannot answer the agastness associated with begging.
- However If I work for a company that monopolises itself into a market which can ultimately lead to the fall of market and that will ultimately create beggers. In this case begging is a result of burgeoige activities ( i just cannot believe i am writing as a socialist), in that case the society will be a begger's society- will we loathe it, ofcourse as a burgeogies we will loath it and provide aid . Ex - African aid via US AID, SIDA , AFD, World Bank.
-??

How and why begging is such an attractive profession after being so vehemently critisied by the society.
- free money, money without selling soul, money without moving, money that is not taxed(dont know for certain)
- Better then dying hungry
- Beggery is A big question mark on the society ( quoting Amartya Sen)
- Increases the earnign capacity of the family(ex - Delhi we will often find kids begging)
- ??

How or why is it dangerous for the society?
- A begger is dangerous human being as it is hard to determine, if an individual fail to provide money, what the begger would do.
- Begging is considered poison to the society because it the burgeoise feels guilty when they try to sleep in the night
-??

What happens to the money tht the begger gets?
-It goes to the state officials and other mafia people as the beggers dont have place to live and hence they work as bonded labour. (now i understand the right to own property)
-Part of that begged money goes to fill the hungry belly.
- Part (i dont know if there is any saving or not) ??

How can a begger decide the best site of begging?
- I have heard begger bidding for best begging sites.
-Complete market analysis
- biggest temples, best tourist spots, best shopping places, hightest traffic jams, lowest police interference, hightest number of specific type of people Paying capacity of the people, no. of people...etc

i am not writing this article to lampoon begging, its just a way of looking at begging.

climate change mitigation - email written to a climate change community

Dear All,

How about solving climate change problems using high end technology.

1. Producing artificial clouds that refled sunlight back to space. (read articles on space solar power)
2. Carbon farming
3. R&D leading to the development of artificial photosysthesis and subsequent fuel production
4. Carbon sequestration
5. Development of new and cheap nuclear fission fuels
6. and offcourse harnessing renewable sources of energy


I think technological innovation can be the best way Human being can survive climate change attack.

BR
Anirudh Agrawal

Innovation at the bottom of technology pyramid

Firstly - Bottom of technology pyramid (new term coined by me) according to me is fundamental sciences.
Technology is built on a base, it is developed around certain frameworks that are Policy frameworks(beyond the scope of this article) and fundamental sciences framework.

Fr example - electronics communication as twp frameworks 1. communication protocal- frameworked by the government, companies competiting with each other and consumers(vaguely) and other is 2. Mathematics, material sciences(moore law of technology development), physics, biology. We can leapfrog rules and regulations setup by the goverment, company and consumers but never those defined by the mathematics and phycis.

Hence the idea of this article to bring new business, new ventures, new world by innovating at the bottom of the technology pyramid.
Think of it-
1. Artificial Photosysthesis,
2. a battery more efficient than human or animal fat(fundamental breakthroughs in nanotechnology),
3. bridging the gap between rich and poor by bringing the breakthrough technologies at the same time to both the worlds,
4.Fundamental studies in human emotions such that breakthrough innovations can be made in urbane and rural design.
5. Waste Management - cost efficient carbon recovery, discovery of artificial enzymes , bacterias for the breaking of waste and subsequent carbon recovery..

and what not....all through innovations at the bottom of technology pyramid.

Connections between Technology hubs and Markets

How can we connect technology hubs and markets?

What is the link between technology and market for that technology?

Can we create hedge funds to invest in futuristic technology that will generate huge value years later in the world market? if so how can we do that?

What are the different investment channels while making investment on technology firms- is it technology hubs, technology markets, markets, technology R&D, or business model ?

I am open to asnwers to all these questions.

BR
Ani

Democracy and Innovation

Democracy and Innovation.

Defining innovation can be subjective.

For example- lets consider that innovation at the country level is no. of patents filed.

Well in that case we ll see enormous discripancies.
For example: Its nation of innovation can be many.

hard to find any relation between Democracy and Innovation considering the contrasts in the number of patents filed by countries like Japan, US, China, USSR(before 1990) and our sweet little India.
Anyways definately looking at Indian and American cases - both biggest democracies of the world yet amocking contrasts in the no. of patends cited by each coutries.
Looking at USSR and America, amasingly different countries yet competing no of patents filed by these countries.

i will define innovation in a different way. Innovation is the freedom to do what you think and a freeedom to break away from existing traditions and learn quickly the new ways to survive and thrive.
What do we see from this defination. We see that India despite all its problems is a great centre of music and arts and is comparable to united states in sector of arts and ability to express arts.
But than i really wonder why innovations were never noticed at the bottom of the pyramid(offcourse there are many yet not productivity spiralling)

Innovation also is factor tht comes from differnt competing phenomenons- like amount of economic value derived, amount of emotional value derived, hence these factors will compete with each other and push us human beings for innovation.

Innovation as a result of quality of education.
Definately Japan scores way above all the coutries in terms of the number of innovative project undertaken. A definate knowledge economy Japan uses its human potential the best of its means and resources. Holland has invested heavily on its education system whose result can be seen in the competitiveness of its industries, Shell, Unilever, Toyota, Sony are great examples of innovation and competitiveness.

Innovation at the bottom of the pyramid.
I mean it is really innovative to see how women in Indian villages manage thier household. With amont of resourses at thier disposal, it takes huge amount of innovation to sustain a household in the village, yet that innovation is at the micro-level.

Conclusion - i dont see any argument of interest where I can asert that Innovation and Democracy has any correlation.