The trade union declared a strike.

Unemployment touched 20 per cent.

The finance minister put a cap of $ 2000 a month on cash withdrawals.

The Argentines withdrew 2.3$ billion from their bank accounts.

Since independence, every political party has played communal card whenever election time draws near.

In fact, the caste and communal cards have been fine-tuned to an art form in the political games that are played in this country.

This was seen when the Youth Congress(I) goons were given a free hand to terrorise Sikhs all over the country after Indira Gandhi’s assassination.

When each party carefully selects political candidates on the basis of religion or caste, it is encouraging and continuing the divide-and-rule tactics of its colonial masters.

And no political party can absolve itself on this count; worse, political parties take on board hoodlums and gangsters who use their clout in political circles to settle scores and extract money.

Teacher preparation must ensure development of commitment amongst teachers.

With all the limitations and deficiencies inherent in our educational system has to be achieved only through combined effort of teachers and community.

It is tough proposition when most of the other sectors are influenced by self-interests and material pursuits everywhere.

A value based approach must form the backbone of educational system and also the teacher education system.

However, teacher education needs to emphasise that teachers alone can kindle the value-based growth.

In the US about 12 million people are homeless, one-third of the people cannot afford primary health care, 20 percent of the children live below the poverty line, and about 23 percent of the people are illiterate with no security of either job or life.

In capitalism, wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few.

In the West, men are only capable of seeing the external aspects of things.

The resultant deprivations are variable even in the developed countries.

The domination of the capitalist class today is justified in the name of economic growth and population efficiency

The study goes on to profile Indian teens, segments them on their mind-set, media preferences, attitudes and how they behave in the market place.

Thus, the presence of a teen in the home accelerate and influences purchase of entertainment durables.

To a large extent, it also fulfils the need for an substitutionalized system of gathering information on the dynamic market segment on a regular basis.

Teen personal durable ownership is up.

I think even more urgent than privatizing existing state-owned firms is to allow the entry of private firms into sectors earlier reserved for the state.

Indian thinking has traditionally been encumbered by a zero-sum view of the economy.

In reality, economic life is full of complementarities.

In his second book ‘Manage yourself’, Dishu explained how the expectancy theory convinced managers and employees that managing the individual works better than treating everyone the same.

Earlier on, Dishu had applied his expectancy theory in a step by step process used mainly as a one-on-one approach between the manager and the employees.

Everyone was flabbergasted by his success.

Nevertheless, Dishu organized a team and implemented, tested and gathered data to measure results in the corporate environment.