Modern Professional Culture and Public Policy
It was a long read forward and it was forwarded many, many times before the caption many times appeared. One has to click on read more quite a few times to get at the bottom of it. It is safe to assume that most have seen it one way or other. Digital medium harps on new, creative and innovative content but most of its content is ‘old’ and changes forms, an email attachment becomes a forward or a post. Last month India’s parliament revised the price of the food served in its canteen. A plate that costed 25 odd ruppes would now cost 700 rs and so on and so forth. The abovementioned forward primarily found fault with the subsidy that was available to parliamentarians, when they ate food at canteen in the parliament. So the demand that forward envisioned as great change has been met. The forward achieved its objective and yet no celebrations! The same government which has revised the prices of food in parliament canteen is bringing other changes; three farm laws, an announcement, inten...