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  ( हिन्दी- दिवस विशेष)     193 7  : मद्रास प्रेसीडेंसी के स्कूलों में हिंदी भाषा अनिवार्य  …..  सरकार के इस फ़ैसले से काफ़ी सुगबुगाहट।   1963 : दिल्ली में हिन्दी को एकमात्र राज भाषा बनाने पर चर्चा  ….. दक्षिण भारत  में   हिन्दी विरोधी हिंसा एवं धरना।     आज के कई युवा इन घटनाओं से शायद ही अवगत होंगे। कुछ वाक़िफ़ भी होंगे तो शायद  1980 के दशक में तमिलनाडु में हिन्दी फ़िल्मों पर प्रतिबंध और हिंदी होर्डिंग और बैनर पर  लगी  कालिख से।   पर सभी पाठकों को  मेरे  क्रिकेट -प्रेमी मित्र का क़िस्सा उस समय के हालात से रू-ब-रू  करवाएगा । 1980 के दशक में क्रिकेट की कमेंटरी सुनना, क्रिकेट प्रेमियों की दीवानगी या शग़ल था। रेडियो पर कमेंटरी का आधा हिस्सा  हिन्दी में प्रसारित किया जाता था। और यह दक्षिण के मेरे इस मित्र के क्रिकेट-प्रेम के आड़े आता था। उस समस्या को दूर करने के लिए मेरे मित्र ने  सिर्फ़ 1 से 500 तक हिन्दी के अंकों को जान लिया ताकि उसे स्कोर की जानकारी तो मिलते रहे पर हिन्दी ना सीख कर उ...

  Why no one is now talking about Affordable Housing ? During 2010, every other media articles in real estate would talk of the need to push Affordable Housing. Suddenly that noise is conspicuous by its absence.                                                                     -------     -------     -------   -------     -------            Here are two news items from NCR real estate …   ·        In just 72 hours, DLF sells 1100 luxury apartments priced at an average Rs 7 cr    ·        At about one-tenth of this prices, Affordable Housing units of    DDA struggle to find buyers.        Interestingly, other sec...

    Do Owner managed real estate companies  have a high inherent risk ?     Owners provide bandwidth and long term commitment. Professional CEOs provide risk mitigation. Where does the balance lie? Can the same be achieved in Real Estate business ?                                         = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =      Last week in Italy, the owner and CEO of a large listed Indian Real Estate Development company met with a major car accident. The video showed the high level of intensity of the accident.   This incident has put a new thought in minds of some of the institutional investors who have invested in Real Estate Companies - Do owner managed real estate companies have a high inherent risk ?    One might immediately counter - why limit this question only to real estate business ? The answ...

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry : A Salute to his Vision Running down the memory lane to understand Cyrus Pallonji Mistry                          -------     -------     -------     -------      -------    -------    -------    -------       On1 st  January, 2000 as the sun rose in the new millennium, if one had asked top ten corporate chieftains and top ten investment bankers - which is the hottest sector to invest in ;    and which is the sector they were least likely to look at. The answer for the first question for each of the twenty would have been the IT sector and to the second one, for all twenty, would have been infrastructure construction. The reasoning for the former obviously was the Y2K effect. For the latter, everyone knew that the government’s role was critical and so with a multi-party alliance g...