Anything under the Sun

वैद्यराज नमस्तुभ्यम् यमराज सहोदर: | यमस्तु हरति प्राणान् वैद्य: प्राणान् धनानि च || Salutations to you, O Doctor ( vaidya-raaj ), the brother ( sahodar ) of Yamraaj ( God of death ). Yamaraj only takes life ( praaNa ), whereas the doctor takes life as well as money ( dhana )! In our country, doctors are treated as second gods who give life to the ailing. To attack such professionals to further one's political agenda is not only crazy but diabolical . Medicine is a very serious profession which requires concentration, diligence and a calm and safe working environment for the medical professionals to excel. If such an environment is not provided and the doctors remain scared for their own safety, it will be impossible for them to provide adequate and quality service to their patients. However, in today's Bengal, this basic understanding about the medical profession has given way. Doctors are being selectively targeted and the Chief Minister, instead of doing her duty an...

Real estate has always been the most reliable and preferred mode of investment in our country. Further, Indians have been major believers of having our own house, have always strived for owning their own homes. It is this belief which had brought a boom in Indian Real Estate sector till 2013-14 and brought a number of shady and unscrupulous people in the industry who availed benefits of unrealistic and impractical government schemes and turned into builders overnight. However, when this bubble burst, it was revealed that these builders had siphoned of or diverted huge funds paid to them by their unsuspecting customers in other projects or in their own pockets leaving a large number of projects stranded or unfinished. Apart from the above, land acquisition by the Government and other approvals granted to the builders were also challenged in various courts which led to stay on construction.     This forced the banks and other financial institutions to hold their hands and...