Sanjeev Singh
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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 Singh105,722 次观看 • 1 个月前
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 次观看 • 11 个月前
During a trip from Delhi to Jaipur, I noticed that Haryana section of the Delhi Mumbai Expressway is a barren... treeless expanse. The Green Highways Policy (2015) was supposed to transform India’s highways by providing desperately needed shade/greenery... They've widened the roads by cutting down trees, but haven't planted new ones. Also, Gadkari ji should start charging more toll on this stretch. There's lot of vertical movement of vehicle... as if you are riding a roller coaster. Compared to this, roads built by Mayawati ji in UP are so smooth... they’re boring. Nitin Gadkari
Sanjeev Singh300,768 次观看 • 1 年前
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 Singh55,521 次观看 • 8 个月前
It's easy to blame Pakistanis... but much of the animosity originates from prominent Indian right wing accounts... Giving you an example of one such account (screenshots). Beyond this hatred... our fight now is for equal economic treatment. We've faced injustices from all central govt, spanning from Nehru to Modi. While we acknowledge our own failure in governance (esp during the 90s) the extent of the Centre's role in Bihar's manufactured backwardness is staggering... I'm ready to engage in an objective, factual, data driven debate with anyone willing.
Sanjeev Singh70,153 次观看 • 1 年前
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 Singh30,474 次观看 • 5 个月前
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 次观看 • 1 年前
This is Economic Times, an Indian English language newspaper that focuses on business, finance, economic & a few big national & international news. It also covers crime news from Purnia, Bihar. No such news coverage from any other state. Bihar, is apparently the ONLY place in India where crime exists… The rest of the country is living in a blissful, crime free utopia today. Who reads ET? It caters to an affluent demographic - business professionals, decision makers, investors & anyone interested in the Indian economy, international finance. So, the idea is to deter anyone from investing here. Bihar is bad. This is how a skewed narrative subtly but surely undermines the historical greatness of a place…. making you question and even dislike your own identity.
Sanjeev Singh28,216 次观看 • 1 年前
Some years ago, a senior expert and commentator on Bihar issues told me that Bihar had been mostly neglected due to different formations ruling in Delhi and the State, consequently hindering its ability to extract benefits. I disagreed. Had two reasons: one, Bihar politicians lack sub-nationalist feeling... so don't ask for much, and two, it doesn't matter who's ruling, Delhi is going to bulldoze our legitimate needs... I'll cite a recent case... While Tribhuvan Sahkari University in Gujarat received immediate legislative approval from the Lok Sabha recently, PM Modi, in 2017, openly turned down CM Nitish Kumar's plea to designate Patna University, once known as the Oxford of the East, as a Central university. Personally, I took that as an insult. The 'double-engine' model deliver for other states... but not for Bihar. Is it because we are seen as emotional fools.. easily polarised by caste and religion?
Sanjeev Singh15,042 次观看 • 1 年前
