:Research
The very basic meaning of research is to unravel truth. Research mentaliy is totally annihilated today by present ruling dispensation at the Centre. Intellectuals and academicians are maintaining stoic silence.
Research doesn’t mean just getting a PhD or Dlitt or just getting any article published in any journal but thinking, reading, interpreting and producing information, ideas in pro people angle. Ideas must be independent and thinking must be critical There was a time when ruling classes were taking suggestions from intellectuals, academicians and journalists etc. But now intellectuals, academicians and journalists are browbesten to justify, corroborate what the ruling class wants. That is why, Raghuram Rajan ignored it. But Aravinda Panagaria ,who used to support the policies of our Central government, has been appointed as Chairman of 16 th Finance Commission. He was earlier chairman of Niti Ayog but was forced to resign due to pressure of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch but pleaded that he has to earn money for survival by doing his teaching jobs. Further, most important thing for researchers is to disseminate knowledge and information to the masses .
India does not provide an atmosphere for qualitative research as evident from the fact that nobody gets the Nobel prize staying in India on Economics . Do all Americans are more brilliant. It is atmosphere. If in US or UK, somebody tells a new word or concept, same will be followed through out World but if any Indian will tell, he/ she will be dubbed as mad, eccentric.
The West has captured the concept of research. But if a student of history can become an RBI governor or without knowledge of economics, one can become a planning board deputy chairman or member, then what is the value of research and economics .
What is the worst 2024 could cripple us

The world economy is lumbering from one shock to another as two gruesome wars, stubborn inflation and high borrowing costs hold back the post-pandemic recovery. The next source of turbulence in the polycrisis era: a packed 2024 election calendar.

Jennifer Welch, chief geo-economics analyst at Bloomberg Economics, says the world faces perhaps its most tumultuous year in a generation from a geopolitical standpoint. In addition to the strains already mentioned, governments and companies are engaged in a global competition to lock down supplies of the raw materials needed to transition to cleaner energy and protect local industries.

Another summer of devastating bushfires? A global conflict spiralling out of control from one of the many cataclysmic battlefronts? A Trump re-election?

Along with helplessness comes the guilt. Because as devastating as global events can be to witness, let alone experience, most of our anxieties about the coming year will concern much smaller things: The thought of losing our jobs. Rising grocery prices. Making rent or mortgage payments. The health of our families.

We call some of these first-world problems because we feel guilty that our own small lives can seem all-consuming even while the world burns around us. But times of crisis can force us to pull focus back to the small things that our lives are made from. In the face of losing everything, what is most important becomes excruciatingly clear.

The real purpose of the premonition is not to deaden us to the horrors of the future, but rather to help us identify what is truly within our reach. We find meaning in coming to terms with the choices we can make that might actually change our world – or, at least, how we live in it. India is far behind many other countries

According to Harvard Business Review, in 2002, India’s government launched a ubiquitous international tourism campaign known as “Incredible India.” Were it to launch a similar campaign today, it might as well be called “Inevitable India.”
Not just enthusiasts within the country, but a chorus of global analysts, have declared India as the next great economic power: Goldman Sachs has predicted it will become the world’s second-largest economy by 2075, and the FT’s Martin Wolf suggests that by 2050, its purchasing power will be 30% larger than that of the U.S. But the bitter truth is that China’s GDP is more than five times that of India and India is behind 138 countries in terms of percapita GDP.
The life span of Indians is three years less than that of the world average and India is plagued by abysmal poverty, staggering unemployment, rampant inequality, stubborn inflation, unfettered price rise . Society is getting contaminated and soiled. But the ruling class is phlegmatic, nonchalant to such problems, but resort to publicity blitzkrieg while spending tax payers’ money.
Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra