Know-Engage-Change
-Rajesh K. Jha If IAS is the steel frame, Why can’t IIS be imagined to serve as the Nervous System? Two incidents stand out vividly in my memory whenever I think about my early days in the Indian Information Service. The first incident relates to the period when I was on training. One component of... Continue Reading →
How does one look at sanity? Ms. Piccioto held a vigil at Pennsylvania Avenue in front of White House for more than 35 years against Nuclear Arms, Zionism -all alone till she died in January 2016. Was it meaningless? Some reflections on the question of sanity, resistance and meaning in life.
Partial Reflections Rajesh K. Jha Sitting in Berkeley and listening to some of the greatest scholars of the world is a rare privilege one gets in life. Alongside the academic experience, one also gets an exposure to the complexity of the American society first hand. The vast sprawling campus of the UC Berkeley with majestic... Continue Reading →
Rajesh K. Jha It is a powerful scene from the Clint Eastwood directed Invitcus (2009). The biographical sports drama film on the life of Nelson Mandela depicts his efforts to realise the dream of a nation which has just emerged from the traumatic experience of apartheid. In the film, Mandela has taken over as the President... Continue Reading →
Projecting India as a brand is seen as almost a duty for most of us. We are expected to do things in the government and outside to improve the brand image of India. But there are deeper issues in visualising India as a brand. These issues are explored in the write up.
Rajesh K. Jha Moscow-The Land of Utopia Among my earliest memories from childhood I recollect the desire to study at the Patrice Lumumba University of Moscow or Shanti Niketan in West Bengal. Both these desires perhaps had their origin in the fact that my father was a communist and the area where I lived in... Continue Reading →
Rajesh K. Jha The Lady who wanted to be Photographed with me It was a typically middle class market in Seoul. Perhaps something like the Sarojini Nagar or the Janpath market in Delhi which operate on the roadside. There were of course fancy shops on each side of the road but the real activity was on... Continue Reading →
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