Articles by Rajni Bakshi

Notes from Gandhigram: Challenges to Gandhian Praxis by Samir Banerjee.

more of an exception than it should have been. An industrial firm needs trained managers who cannot only understand and implement the bureaucratic division of labour, but can also utilise the peculiar strengths (the less-than-perfectly liquid, idiosyncratic assets) of the firm. When we are talking about a group the firms of which are bound together in customer-supplier relationships, an ability of the managers of different firms to understand one another's needs would addto the synergy of the group. However, in India, partly because of the advantages taken of the legal immunities of the Hindu Undivided Family, the synergy has been confined only within a family group, and the centre of attention has become the development of the family rather than of the group. The Tatas were perhaps forced, by lack of legal immunities of a similar magnitude and by the lack of polyphiloprogenitive members within the nearest kin group, to develop a professional management cadre with loyalty to the industrial group rather than to a particular family in a narrow sense. Will the legal immunities of the Hindu Undivided Family have to be demolished before similar professionalisation takes place in other family-controlled conglomerates ?

November 22, 1986 an easy outlet for their unaccounted wealth. They were not interested in films as such. They had no ideals and scruples. Their main objective was to make money at any cost. Unfortunately, the new generation of artistes, directors and technicians who entered the films at this stage also fell prey to this philosophy. The earlier institutions with ideals disintegrated before the flood of new money, independent producers sprung up, all values were thrown to the winds and films catering to prurient tastes began to be dished out. The government did little to arrest these trends. As in the times of the British, even after independence, films remained a part of the home ministry. No special attention was given to this medium despite it having so much power to influence people's minds, specially of the youth. The industry was allowed to function in a chaotic manner without any direction, eventually bringing it to its press pass. The only occasion when our government cast its eyes on the film industry in those days was when it imposed some new tax on it.

February 2, 1985 colourful spoicesman as Devraj Urs' KBCC-l had in L G Havanur, quite apart from the fact that Havanur is very knowledgeable about the soeio-legal problems associated with reservations.