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Banner: Yash Raj Films
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Parineeti Chopra, Dipannita Sharma
Cinematography : Aseem Mishra
Lyrics : Amitabh Bhattacharya
Dialogues: Habib Faisal
Screenplay : Devika Bhagat
Music : Salim-Sulaiman
Producer : Aditya Chopra
Director: Maneesh Sharma
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International, Kenya, Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, India, Sarah Kelly, Anchor-at-Large, Deutsche Welle, USA, Subramanian Rangan, The Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court Endowed Chair in Societal Progress, INSEAD, France, Hilary Cottam, Author and Entrepreneur, Centre for the Fourth Social Revolution, United Kingdom; Young Global Leader and Robert E. Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC International, PwC, USA capture during the Session "A 'Fourth Social Revolution'?" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2019. Congress Centre - Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, India captured during the Session:"Re-engineering Bureaucracy " at the India Economic Summit 2017 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Amitabh Bachchan records his voice for the English and Hindi language versions of the TeachAIDS animations at BR Studios in Mumbai, India.
Photo credit: TeachAIDS (TeachAIDS.org)
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International, Kenya, Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, India, Sarah Kelly, Anchor-at-Large, Deutsche Welle, USA, Subramanian Rangan, The Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court Endowed Chair in Societal Progress, INSEAD, France, Hilary Cottam, Author and Entrepreneur, Centre for the Fourth Social Revolution, United Kingdom; Young Global Leader and Robert E. Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC International, PwC, USA capture during the Session "A 'Fourth Social Revolution'?" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2019. Congress Centre - Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
As the Indian Foreign Service is already a shadow of its former self, India should not fritter away its strengths by diluting its specialised and professional character
Whether at the time of uncertainty over foreign policy before the Lok Sabha elections, or after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reinvigoration of foreign policy, foreign service reforms have focussed on expansion, lateral entry of officers and general dilution of the service’s elitist character. But no attention is given to the fact that the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is already a shadow of its former self, and does not appeal to civil service aspirants. Most of those who join the IFS are those who did not qualify for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). If IFS has to perform effectively, its elitism should be preserved, its attractiveness enhanced, and it should be brought to the centre of international relations as it was originally intended to be.
Partners in foreign policy
Nobody disputes the academic Amitabh Mattoo’s argument that “India’s foreign policy must be seen as a shared partnership across departments within the government of India, and academia and think tanks outside the traditional corridors of power” (“A new foreign policy agenda”, The Hindu, April 8, 2014). But the answer is not to merge the various partners while destroying the identity of each, but to allow each of them to develop in their own spheres and provide inputs to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). No one seems to suggest that the IAS and Indian Police Service should be expanded through lateral entry to improve their performance. The logic of this argument for the IFS seems to defy the need to preserve a specialised and professional foreign service. IFS, it should be noted, is no less professional or specialised than the other services.
Foreign policy is framed by various departments of the government, academia, think tanks and the media. They should all have their own defined roles in drafting foreign policy and must remain independent of each other. The MEA should not absorb them into a monolithic institution that has no diversity. Think tanks and the media should shape foreign policy from outside rather than from within the government. Is the right remedy to recruit media experts into the IFS in order to get their inputs on foreign policy? Would they fit into the bureaucratic milieu with its hierarchical and political constraints?
The usual lament is that the IFS is smaller (900 officers) than Chinese (4,000) and American (20,000) diplomatic services. This number is insufficient to meet the requirements of our 120 missions and 49 consulates. It is a fact that India started off with more missions than it could manage. It is not easy or politically correct to close down missions once they have begun; India, therefore, maintains them with a skeletal staff in marginal posts. Its larger missions are well-endowed and it does not need to be envious of bigger missions maintained by the U.S. or China. The right mix of need and affordability must determine the numbers. The information revolution should lead to a reduction, rather than an increase, in the number of missions abroad. The size of the service should not by itself detract from the efficiency of diplomacy.
Those who argue for expansion and lateral entry seem unaware of the fact that in most of India’s important missions, the IFS is in a minority, as it is staffed by officers of other Ministries. Many Ministries have preserved positions in the name of specialisation, but most of them are IAS officers, who may have been recruited specifically for assignments abroad. They may not even have gained experience in the concerned Ministries before being posted abroad. When there is such a practice, there should be no need to induct them into the foreign service itself. Moreover, Ministries such as Commerce, Finance, Industry, Environment, Science and Technology, Atomic Energy, Space and the Cabinet Secretariat have officers who specialise in various international negotiations. The missions are merely asked to service these delegations; even the heads of mission receive only a courtesy call and a cursory report. These officers function, in effect, as diplomats, and they should be added to the strength of the IFS when functional requirements are taken into account. In other words, we have more diplomats in action internationally than the strength of the IFS indicates.
If officers who claim their seniority on the basis of their services in totally unrelated areas enter the IFS laterally, this would only dilute the service’s quality. Past experience has shown that such entrants do not leave the service after a term or two, but remain to claim higher positions, spending their whole careers in diplomacy. If there is a need to induct officers from outside, the procedures available should be used rather than induct those who had once spurned the IFS. The expectations of advancement in the IFS should not be belied.
The MEA has already begun to recruit more officers every year, and that is the only way that such a specialised service should be expanded. If necessary, there are retired officers with proven ability, to fill the gaps without claiming high positions and salaries.
Reforms needed
The suggestion here is not that reform of the diplomatic service is unnecessary. First, it should be made more attractive so that the best candidates are chosen. Like Jawaharlal Nehru did, the aptitude and readiness of the selected candidates should be ascertained before they are chosen. It is patently wrong to take in officers who qualify without English proficiency. No amount of language training after entry into the service would equip them for the rigours of the work abroad. The recruitment of a large number of doctors and engineers is by no means negative, particularly in the context of the growth of technology. Some of India’s best diplomats have come from the medical profession. But we should not lose sight of the recent trend in management to deploy more graduates of social sciences and humanities. Training should be constantly revamped to equip officers to deal with different regions.
The present practice of posting on an ad hoc basis should cease. Officers should develop expertise in countries and regions. Multilateral postings should not be meant for rotational blessings, but for those who have the talent and experience. Instead of rotating officers so that they retire comfortably, we should give them other incentives to stay in tough assignments. Those in difficult places must be compensated financially. Postings, an art at present, should be made a science, with a clear criteria. There should be no vagaries of political influence or acceptability.
The real shortage of officers is not in missions abroad, but at the headquarters. Many heads of divisions cover whole continents with very little support. Temporary deputation of officers from various disciplines can strengthen the headquarters till we have a sufficient number of IFS officers to return. The style of the present Prime Minister seems to be to rely on a small number of people to work intensively on issues; this method could be developed into a system.
The role and relevance of the policy planning and historical divisions are often exaggerated. Policy planning cannot be done in a vacuum; it is the territorial divisions which can help formulate policy. The historical division should be a service unit, helping policymakers, as it is functioning right now. Nothing prevents the Ministry from drawing on the experience and wisdom of people from other fields, without absorbing them into the Ministry.
Many youngsters who aspire to the IFS have begun to believe that it really does not call the shots in foreign policymaking, as decision-making has passed on to the technical Ministries. They believe that the MEA has been reduced to a post office. Unless this impression is removed by concrete action, real talent cannot be attracted to the Videsh Bhawan. Foreign services are elitist in most countries, and India should not fritter away its strengths by diluting its specialised and professional character.
(T.P. Sreenivasan is an IFS officer of the 1967 batch. He is former Ambassador of India and Governor for India of the IAEA.)
Photo :photo shows Indian Foreign Service probationers call on President R. Venkataraman at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi in 1990
These are costumes that I designed for Big B Mr Amitabh Bachchan and Govinda , David Dhawan was the director and Vasu Bhagnani of Puja film was the producer..Bade Miya Chote Miya was a Bollywood Block buster .
I worked for Mr Nitin Manmohan the producer who had a fashion store called Prachins.
Later I went on my own and it was Govinda who gave me the title of Bollywoods Most wanted Designer No1.
Aishwarya Rai-bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman & Shahrukh & Aamir & Saif Ali Khan,Kajol & Rani Mukherj(i)ee, Lara Dutta, Priyanka Copra, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Bipasha Basu,
Vivek Oberoi , Sushmita Sen, Arjun Rampal, Ajay Devgan & Preity Zinta
Dans la vitrine derrière le Bouddha historique, les 3 Bouddhas : Amitābha (A-Di-Da) : le bouddha du passé, Sakyamuni (Thich Ca) : le Bouddha de notre ère, Maitreya (Di-Lac) : le Bouddha de l'avenir.
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Située sur la rive gauche de la rivière de Parfums, à cinq kilomètres du centre-ville de Hué, la pagode de Thien Mu domine la colline de Ha Khe. Selon une légende locale, la pagode a été appelée "Pagode de la Dame Céleste" ou "Pagode de la Déesse Miséricordieuse".
Construite en 1601, puis restaurée en 1665, elle fut complétée d’une cloche en 1710 et d'une stèle déposée sur une tortue en marbre en 1715. Elle fut restaurée à maintes reprises avant que n’y soit érigé le stupa octogonal (Phuoc Duyên) en 1844 à la demande du roi Thieu Tri.
Dans le monastère, se trouvent plusieurs temples, des maisons occupées par les bonzes, des salles de réception des visiteurs, et des jardins floraux.
La voiture du premier bonze vietnamien : Thich Quang Duc, qui s'immola par le feu, le 11 juin 1963, à Saïgon, lors d'une manifestation contre les USA et contre le gouvernement de Diem, est exposée. Etant originaire de Hué, la voiture du bonze a été restituée au monastère.
Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush starring in new Bollywood movie "Shamitabh", the name of this movie has no meaning in terms of dictionary because it has been written in an innovative way that reads "DHANU-SHAMITABH-BACHCHAN". Shamitabh posters and Teaser audio has been...
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left > right: (back row) Nain Singh Rawat, ???, James Amitabh, Anil?, Punita Singh; (front row) Manik Chauhan, Ashima, Nishi Bhasin, Poojag. DK India, New Delhi, 2000.
Vikram Chandra, Founder, Editorji Technologies, India, Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, India, Shobana Kamineni, Executive Vice-Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, India, Gautam Kumra, Managing Partner, India Office, McKinsey & Company, India and Vani Kola, Founder and Managing Director, Kalaari Capital, India speaking during the Session "Bigger, Faster, Better?" at the India Economic Summit 2019 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, India at the India Economic Summit 2016 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, India, Lee Kai-Fu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sinovation Ventures, People's Republic of China, Nicholas Thompson, Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine, USA, Amy Webb, Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business, Italy, David Siegel, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder, Two Sigma, USA and Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman, Siemens, Germany speaking during the Session: “Setting Rules for the AI Race“ at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018. Congress Centre – Aspen 1.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, India capture during the Session "A 'Fourth Social Revolution'?" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2019. Congress Centre - Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
BOLLYWOOD'S SUPERSTAR.
Amitabh Bachchan
Son of well known poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan..
The trademark deep baritone voice, the tall, brooding persona, and intense eyes, made Amitabh Bachchan the ideal "Angry Young Man" in the 1970s, thereby changing the face of Hindi cinema.
He left films in 1985 to become a Member of Parliament from Allahabad constituency as a Congress party candidate, as a favor to his family friend Rajiv Gandhi - the new Prime Minister of India.
He’s been awarded all over the world with prestigious titles and medals like the Legion d’Honneur.
He presided over the last ‘Bollywood Oscars’ in Dubai, this year’s held in Yorkshire, yes he’s back in town!
The first Asian actor having a wax model of his likeness displayed at Madame Tussaud's in London.
Was named Actor of the Millennium in a BBC News Poll ahead of such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, Sir Lawrence Olivier and Marlon Brando. Here he’s often called the Asian Sean Connery. (For more go to Amitabh Bachchan Wikipedia).
He is also the most well known Indian together with Gandhi.
We photographed the great man, the big B as he is called… He allowed us to take portraits of him.
It is indeed the height (1, 91) and elegance, the voice and the penetrating look that leaves a lasting impression of this extremely kind and distinguished gentleman.
I saw a few hairs slightly over his eye and brow, walked up to him, gently put it back in place, we smiled at each other…
Have a wonderful day and thanx, M (*_*)
PS: Two soft boxes and a backlight with honeycomb.
I only wanted some rim or edge light, but he moved his head, hence the highlight on his check, no matter...l loved the pose and intensity, took it... it is my personal favourite. You know how for me... IT IS OFTEN ABOUT THE EMOTION MUCH MORE THAN THE THECHNICAL PROWESS!
Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman on Durbar Square, acting "Pyar Mein Dil Pe Maar De Goli" for the film " Mahaan", Bhaktapur, Nepal.
> Read the story with Amitabh Bachchan retro-blogging.blogspot.fr/2014/04/amitabh-bachchan-and-z...
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, India, speaking during the Session "India 4 0 Making Technology Work for All" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2019. Congress Centre - Jakobshorn
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Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International, Kenya, Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, India, Sarah Kelly, Anchor-at-Large, Deutsche Welle, USA, Subramanian Rangan, The Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court Endowed Chair in Societal Progress, INSEAD, France, Hilary Cottam, Author and Entrepreneur, Centre for the Fourth Social Revolution, United Kingdom; Young Global Leader and Robert E. Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC International, PwC, USA capture during the Session "A 'Fourth Social Revolution'?" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2019. Congress Centre - Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary