Bihar's economy In this interview with Nitish Kumar, comes out an interesting truth "Bihar's economy works on subcontracting: a village teacher 'sells' the job to a substitute and they share the salary. The result is, no one is obligated to actually teach." This is same with the students too. They 'contract' out their 'work' and have someone appear for exams and get a degree. So you have fake teachers and fake students. Speaks volumes for the state of Bihar. For a change Bihar has a CM who is ready to acknowledge the problems the state faces and is willing to try solving them. It remains to be seen how all this pans out. This state has been thrown back 30yrs during Laloo's rule. It is going to take a lot of focussed reforms to get this state out of the gutter.

Happy New Year Like all my previous new year's eve's, this one also was ushered in nonchalant fashion. But this year starts a very new chapter of parenthood for me and my wife. I am expecting this to be one of our most fullfilling years.

Ok, I am on a roll.. so here is another link and another entry into this 'recently so dormant' blog of mine. http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/12/24/monkeys-running-the-circus/ Antanu Dey comments on the Cash for Questions Scam

As the year end approaches... Its time for those next year predictions. Here are some from AMR. http://www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=19052 * 2005 has been a great year for Google PR. See how many news items you can digg up here and here.

Will Mumbai get new Taxi System? Sucheta Dalal talks about it.