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 Le Gentil Garçon (aka The Nice Guy) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice mixes sculpture, drawing, video, performances, and installations. He has had an artistic practice since 1998. His work is shown internationally and since 2006, he has also been chosen several times to design artworks for public art commissions. In 2020, he showcased his artworks under the title ‘Stories Bloom’ in Trivandrum and ‘Anima’ in Kochi in collaboration with Alliance Française de Trivandrum and Kochi Biennale Foundation. Using the traditional practice of Kamishibai, visual and participatory storytelling titled ‘Chronicle of the Past World’ was also presented by the artist in Kerala. The Rick-show project was developed by Le Gentil Garçon during a residency in Kerala in 2020. It consists of a mobile cinema that fits within a box transported on an auto-rickshaw. When it is unfolded, all the elements necessary for the screening and mediation, as well as public seating, “pop up.” The idea of this ...

The Reserve Bank of India has released the Report on Currency and Finance (RCF) for the year 2021-22 today. The theme of the Report is “Revive and Reconstruct” in the context of nurturing a durable recovery post-COVID and raising trend growth in the medium-term. The Report reflects the views of the contributors and not of the Reserve Bank. The precondition of the RBI's "Revive & Reconstruct" Report is based on Price Stability A Pre-Condition For Growth.  Highlights The blueprint of reforms proposed in the Report revolves around seven wheels of economic progress viz., aggregate demand; aggregate supply; institutions, intermediaries and markets; macroeconomic stability and policy coordination; productivity and technological progress; structural change; and sustainability. A feasible range for medium-term steady state GDP growth in India works out to 6.5 – 8.5 per cent, consistent with the blueprint of reforms. Timely rebalancing of monetary and fiscal policies will lik...

  Its 26th April. Thought of starting my first Vlog today and sharing with you all. This is a part of the electronic city, Kolkata Sector-V, Shot recently.  It's been over ten years started this platform, renamed multiple times. It started with 'The Rookies" blog and changed over a multiple times.  Thanks for some of the comforting messages. Some folk ask why this only blog doesn't really say anything about digital. I write whatever I see and observe not necessarily from a marketing standpoint. 

Consultant  Mr. Prashant Kishore humbly declined 'membership' of the INC - Indian National Congress today. Widely reported that a 600 pager. PPT PowerPoint was presented spliced in multiple meetings, Hindi Express India report.   Pic source ndtv My question is what happens to that "Report", the content? It's basically a plan and am sure not a 1 man job.  Presuming that coming from PK, the consultant, the matter is rich with insights. Way forward, backed with relevant data.  Humongous amount of time, efforts and hours if not days or months must have gotten in creating, which essentially is a 'pitch', to bring confidence at first go.  India Today reported that "no one has seen the complete report." Are there idea or brainstorming  copyrights over lunch or breakfasts? Intellectual Property of ideas, defined maybe KPIs backed by years of I-PAC's proven credibility.  Now the offer has been declined, what happens to that 'report...

Facebook is now Metaverse or Metaverse was Facebook, we are heading towards a more digitized system complete with AI. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta backed by its financial arm Meta Financial Technologies has already laid down plan to get into the crypto business despite its initial failure. As FT.com reports of launching virtual coins, tokens and lending services to its apps, as Facebook’s parent company aggressively pursues its finance ambitions. This is in view of falling popularity of its main products Facebook and Instagram. Collectively it’s an $118bn-a-year ad-based business model. Apparently the new currency from FB's stable is called “Zuck Bucks”.  The following are the expected changes in years to come • Agility: 65% of marketing organization leaders As companies move from one moment of uncertainty rate their speed of acting on insights as ‘strong/ very strong’, versus just 22% of mainstream and 5% of laggard organizations.  Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP •  Experimen...

Picture of St. Olav Church taken in April 2021 during a personal visit at Serampore Thanks to the National Museum of Denmark, Chandannagar and Serampore municipal plus the local administration, the history surely came and is coming alive before this generation. During my vagaboundish trips last year during covid pandemic, multiple rides, crossing the Bhagirathi,  Hooghly, Adi Ganga or just the river, once the world trade center of the earth in terms of "richness". They've done it. Even the Old Denmark Tavern  by The Park is driving people, post pandemic. The old court house (a portion) can be leased  out to government and private people, The Telegraph India reported.   True, the Danish heritage is getting back its sheen and vibe and "the new wave of restoration projects is doing wonders by bringing back a slice of history to the present generation.", the paper reports. The next would be around my trips to the places and shall dwell a little deep then...