DESI ORTHOPEDIC TRETMENT

Photograph of Nilamadhaba Mohapatra 

Report: Bikash Choudhury

Nilamadhaba Mohapatra , a tea and cigarette vendor in Ashok Nagar Bhubaneswar met with an accident while crossing the road in front of Bata showroom and suffered Collar bone dislocation. He moved from Hospital to Hospital for good treatment for his ailment and spent huge sums of money by his standard and still did not get appropriate treatment and eventually; he knocked the door of a Desi Orthopedic located at “Mandirabeni” near Bhapur in Khandapada area. Their diagnosis is as simple as their Ayurvedic based medicine. First of all they go through the patient’s injury with their trained hands and figure out fracture/dislocation if any; and then they try to bring the damaged bones to original position and then they apply liberal amount of herbal oil in those injury with a traditional Bandage. They also prescribe and supply ayurvedic capsules for the patients to augment the healing process. In a gap of one or two weeks, patients are advised to revisit and depending on the requirement go for a fresh bandage and thereafter some heat treatment is given in that injured area to augment calcium formation. In this method, the patients return to normal life in 3-5 weeks time and saves poor people from expensive Hospitalization and complicated invasive surgery. Not only Mandirabeni but, there are other localities like Kalupada Ghat and Koleila that offer such simple but effective Orthopedic treatment at very low cost which needs to be brought in the State Map for Medical Tourism.

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India Incl. Missing a Big Business Opportunity

                                                          Bikash Choudhury

Interview with friends and family who migrated to western countries have of the opinion that apart from better career prospects they chose to pitch their tents in developed countries due to the better City life and City Infrastructure. Not only in India, but all across South Asia, Cities are crumbling under population pressure due to the onslaught of migration from rural areas and also due to lack of optimum public or private investment and non deployment of technology in City Infrastructure. The toil and tribulations of a Mumbaites is equally shared by people living in Karachi and Dhaka; if not more. This is a huge and big business opportunity that India Incl. can’t afford to miss. I live in a small city like Bhubaneswar and wish to live in garbage free city with spotless roads and with smooth traffic flow in and around the city with designated parking place and planned vending zones in all business and residential districts; and, am ready to pay little more in city taxes and same holds good for the residents of all cities in South Asia. A few top India Incl. with deep pocket can apply their mind and persuade GoI and State Govt. to make enabling policies for outsourcing the “City Management” services to the private sector; even, private sector could become the implementing agency for State Govt. & GoI programs in a transparent mechanism drawn for the purpose. With domestic experience in City Management Services, Indian Incl. could also export such services and expertise in South Asia and beyond for a fast buck while enhancing the soft power of India.

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ANTI INCUMBENCY FOR REAL

Congress Party must be very happy to receive a land slide victory in Karnataka. However, in the same logic it should be prepared for a land slide drubbing in the next National Parliamentary Election. And, BJP may get the entire benefits of UPA’s anti-incumbency; if, the proposed Third Front did not take off with an alternative and a new model for faster Development; keeping in view of the aspirations of Young People. Third Front should come out with a vision in which it should also include a plan to make Bureaucracy-the engine of Indian growth story.

Bikash Choudhury

Bhubaneswar

A TRIBUTE TO KHULANA BADA MAA

Bikash Choudhury(Julu)

  “Khulana Bada Maa” was the darling of our joint family at Gokhapada in Kendrapada District of Odisha. She was illiterate but possessed extraordinary intelligence, ready wit and humor. She hails from a decent Zamindar family of Kendrapada and married at an early age to Gangadhar Choudhury(elder brother of my father) one of the prominent Zamindars of Dasamauji Area of Mahakalapada Block. Even today villagers recognize us in 10-20 K.M radius through his name (apparently that proves Indian’s feudalistic mindset). Our family lost the trapping of wealth and power during the ‘Bhudan’ movement; but, some villagers by default show deference to members of our joint family even today. Adulation of ordinary people gives a ‘High’ feeling though that has got nothing to do with your contribution to society.

Khulana Bada Maa was the chief manager of our ancestral home made of wood and mud with a high attic (modern false ceiling). She was a short and lean lady but workaholic to a fault. Her responsibility was to maintain the entire house and feed a brood of 24 children of the joint family. She was always remembered for her Love and Compassion for all and more particularly for we the children of that time. She had a photographic memory which registers who likes what and she serves food in such a manner to all, that every body goes back happy with limited resources at her command; she used to do this for years without complain and meticulously managed the household impeccably which touched many of us; who received her love and affection in equal measure and never seen she being partial to her 7 children. She passed away on 4^th of May 2013 at 9 P.M after brief illness; the image of her serving food with graciousness in the dinning area of our ancestral home flashes in the mind. She is no more but her life, her work and her love and compassion for us would stay in our mind for a long long time. 

TIME TO TEACH CHINA A LESSON

Bikash Choudhury

Chacha Nehru passed away a broken man; courtesy Chinese aggression of 1962. Nehru Ji personally invested so much on ‘Panchaseel’ and on Non-alignment foreign policy of India and yet China did strike India hard as it was least prepared for a military confrontation in the northern reaches of Himalayas then and not well prepared even now. Our gentle man Prime Minister says “we can resolve the current dead lock in Ladakh through dialogue and we have a plan”. May be PM is right now; but, can he buy an insurance against future aggression from China? China is playing geo-politics in the region for a long term and it can not be contained by appeasement or sweet talk. Their intention is very clear now and they consider India as a threat to their future hegemony in Asia and beyond. India can’t afford to seat complacently any further. Die is already cast and apparently China would make an attempt once again to strike India in 2-3 yrs time to bruise its Global standing and capture some territories like Arunanchal Pradesh which it claims as its own. India has very little option now than the policy of ‘offence is best defense’. Indians have to move quickly and get an International Coalition in place comprising of Japan and South Korea to give the Dragon Country a run for its money by suitably targeting its economic sectors and defense establishments in the costal belt; while preparing for a medium term trade embargo on all its goods and services to choke its economic advantages. But, simultaneously India has to strangulate China by actively promoting pro democracy movements inside the country while drawing Global attention to its track records on Liberty and Free Press. Hard nosed Chinese Communist Party bosses could be tempted to repeat the “Tiananmen Square” incident once again which might subsequently become the death knell in the coffins of last communist bastion. And as a result of which we can once again have “Tibet” as the neutral buffer State between India and China. Sooner India takes a call on this it would be better for its security and territorial integrity. Indian Foreign Minister must now cancel his trip to China and also communicate its unwillingness to host any dignitaries from China till such time the border dispute is   resolved.

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NAVEEN SHOULD PLAY THE KING

Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha

“Naveen should play the king and not the king maker” a wish shared by millions of Odia people. Arun Maira, the member of Planning Commission of India recently said in a memorial lecture at Bhubaneswar “this land has the potential to change India and the World”. He must have good reason to say so. With a withering UPA and shrinking NDA; the Third Front Idea looks very promising once again. But, without a cohesive organization; Third Front, as an alternative could be worse than the Problem as political history of last fifty years witness to countless failures on this score. Therefore, Regional Satraps should do well not to wait and watch for the election results of 2013-14 to cobble together a Third Political Alternative for this vast Nation as that attempt would be fraught with danger as conflict of interest of diverse political formation could be its undoing. It is said “power unites Congress Men while divides Non-Congress Opposition”; therefore, if not Ideological Cohesion, at least the Third Front should be given shape on the basis of one Goal and a set of common programs for the Nation on which a broad consensus could be built. India is a young Nation and the aspiration of its young people is sky rocketing each passing day; they not only wish to start their life with an SUV, but wish to live and belong to a powerful Nation whose write runs through the World. And, therefore, Third Front could pursue a goal like “Sampurna Bharat and Samparna Bharat” and could even seek a mandate from the people of India on the issue. This goal alone could unite diverse political formations in Third Front with a ‘Fevicol’.

The current electoral arithmetic forecasts a tie between the two National Parties which could create a minor stir in both the National alliance and which piece would go where, depend upon which formation is closer to the seat of power; here, Third Front stands a better chance as it would be without any baggage of Governance at the centre and at the same time it would be a brand new alliance with freshness which may be of liking of electorate. However, the Leadership of Third Front would remain crucial for its success- a leader who should be acceptable to diverse political mosaic of the proposed Third Front and at the same time he should have tacit blessings from the two National Parties. Naveen Patnaik, the three times Chief Minister of Odisha fits the bill very eminently; having led coalition Govt. twice and single handedly decimating the opposition inside the party and outside having scored 100 plus seats in the State Assembly in the third term. He has also very strong base/network in New Delhi and known to people who matters globally. And, this could be the second best opportunity for Odisha to bid for Delhi Durbar. And, why not? If a Bengali can be hosted on the Raisina Hills; then, why not an Odia at the 7 Race Course Road Residence?

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“Ideas to Execution”

How to make Bhubaneswar an Entrepreneur Friendly City?

“Ideas to Execution”

BIKASH CHOUDHURY

One cool morning met an unusual young man in the living room of a prominent architect in the

city; apparently, he came to persuade the Architect for sponsorship and in the din of the moment he drew our attention to his venture which was no doubt impressive and Idea was brilliant with a dynamic business model. But, he was desperately searching for a last mile funding to launch his product on 1^st April 2013. Later, it was known that he got the last minute funding in the zero hours of 30^th March 2013 from a salaried employee who  withdrew cash from his savings  earmarked for his son’s education and daughter’s marriage; while many stinking rich person, business men turned down the request for Investment on a genuine and path breaking business proposal. Where does one go with a bright business ‘Idea’/ proposal in the city? Banks would ask for assets and documents which most of the time no entrepreneur could comply with. Risky investments normally abhorred by middle class white collar group and Govt. remain inaccessible to an educated entrepreneur even today.

There is an urgent and immediate need to have an Angel Investment Network in the city of Bhubaneswar; that could fund entrepreneurial initiative and at the same time can create an “Institutional Mechanism” in the private sector to assist new entrepreneurs with organizational issues like HR, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Logistics ect., by deploying available talent pool in the city in each domains. There are Entrepreneurship Development agencies in Govt. sector; but, they fail to attract entrepreneurs and guide them in the uncharted territory of creating a new business enterprise. Need a ‘plug and play’ arrangement; wherein an entrepreneur would come just with a “Business Idea or a Business Plan” that should be given a concrete shape by a private institution so created for the purpose to make ‘Bhubaneswar City’ an entrepreneur friendly one, to Global Standards; where dreams are brought into the real world.

Practicing ‘Chartered Accountants’ of the temple city could get together to constitute an organization named “Bhubaneswar Angel Investors Group” that would have mandate to create an Investment Fund in order to deploy in the start up firms in MSME sector. They can easily rope in their clients having surplus funds to create a corpus of Rs.50-100 Crore annually to give a fresh lease of life to Business in the city. There can be a series of collaboration possible with Institutions working in the domain Nationally and even Globally. Any takers? 

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