Sanjeev Singh
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Son of a Soldier / Quite an eclectic mix / A mix of traditional & modern / Complex yet simple / Kind but not gullible / Music. Poetry. Rain / Views own
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In Feb/March this year, I was in Mumbai for a Public Private Partnership (PPP) conference when I learned she was also in town... to accept an award. I messaged her that PPPs were set to become a major engine for projects in Bihar and suggested she attend. Though she was hesitant (was down with fever) she consented. The organisers invited her as Guest of Honour. She joined a panel alongside India’s top PPP experts. And once she took the mic, she didn’t just speak... she dominated the talks. I regret that I couldn’t record the best part of the discussions.
Sanjeev Singh46,639 views • 21 days ago
There's a frame in Made in India: Titan Story that lasts barely a few seconds. The series keeps its focus on JRD, Xerxes Desai and his team, whose faces we have decided to remember. But the real story of Titan may belong to the men in that forgotten frame. First, IAS officer Mahadevan. And then K. Rajaram, Minister for Industries in MGR's Tamil Nadu govt, head of TIDCO. And by the show's own telling - a man who did not trust capitalists. Here was a politician of conviction, suspicious of private capital on principle. And yet, when the Tatas came with a proposal... he said yes. Why? Because the deal carried a condition he could not refuse... Hire local. Employ the people of the soil. And so a watch factory rose in Hosur on the backs of a workforce that was barely 10th pass. The Minister set his ideology aside... Not out of weakness, but out of a higher loyalty. To jobs... To livelihoods... To the quiet transformation of ordinary lives. And transform it did. Hosur was a border town with an industrial estate and not much else. Titan turned it into an ecosystem. Suppliers. Training centres. Ancillary units. Worker housing. An entire economy spun out of a single anchor. A town became a cluster.... an industrial powerhouse. In 1984, TIDCO staked ₹10 crore on Titan. 40+ years on, that bet is worth nearly ₹1 lakh crore - close to 1/3rd of Tamil Nadu's projected revenue receipts of ₹3,44,575 crore for 2026-27... Imagine that. I think about that scene very often... because it echoes something older and closer to home. People of my parents' generation in Bihar tell me they watched the 1982 Asian Games on TV sets built by a Bihar govt PSU. The same PSU once made video equipments too. There was a time when a state could believe in industry... Build it. And perhaps that is the real lesson buried in that single forgotten frame: a state's destiny is not decided by what it owns, but by what it has the courage to believe in - and the patience to let that belief grow.
Sanjeev Singh106,256 views • 2 months ago
When a tiger that has already killed a farmer suddenly attacks, what would you do? Most people would probably run for life. Near Valmiki Nagar Tiger Reserve in Bihar's West Champaran district, tiger tracker Vijay Uraon was attacked by a tiger that had been hiding in a sugarcane field. The tiger mauled his thigh. Instead of fleeing, fellow tracker Ramvinay Uraon and villagers rushed to fight the tiger. Their bravery saved Vijay... pulling him from the jaws of death... For a true Bihari, the bond of friendship and community is a sacred duty that outweighs personal risk.
Sanjeev Singh265,545 views • 1 year ago
Bihar ranked 5th in India in terms of GDP contribution in 1960s (accounting for ~8% of the nation's total GDP.) The State attracted job seekers from across the country. In the 1950s-70s, India had just a handful of key industrial towns - Kanpur, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Madras and Calcutta, among others.... Bihar had many. Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Sindri, Ranchi, Dalmianagar, Jamalpur, Barauni, etc. So, apart from the '90s misgovernance and the failure to ride the bandwagon of economic liberalisation, WHAT WENT WRONG? Reason for Bihar's Job Crisis | A Lallantop Documentary
Sanjeev Singh55,523 views • 10 months ago
GD Goenka Patna’s kids singing a beautiful medley of traditional Bihari folk songs - Sohar, Chhath Song, Jagadamba Bhajan, Kajri, Chaiti, Haldi (wedding) song & finally a Jhijhiya song. We need more of this in schools to ensure our heritage truly stays & resonates with the next generation. Shared by Anubha Sinha ma'am on WA... I couldn't resist sharing it here.
Sanjeev Singh30,581 views • 6 months ago
Last Saturday, while driving from Patna to my village in Champaran - one of the poorest regions in India's poorest state - I asked my son, who was busy playing Sudoku on phone, to take a few random shots of the roads instead... I wanted to show just how impossible travel is in this land India loves to hate.
Sanjeev Singh50,766 views • 1 year ago
Thank you Madam Finance Minister for acknowledging the historical injustices inflicted upon Bihar.. esp through the Freight Equalisation Policy. Undivided Bihar incurred losses amounting to trillions... solely due to this policy. Any proposed measures for compensation.. or is this just poll rhetoric? Nirmala Sitharaman
Sanjeev Singh30,253 views • 2 years ago