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If you in Kolkata today and enjoy Piano, Jazz, the Dalhousie Institute, Ballygunge in the evening today.  Piano Tales Enrico Zanisi, the 26 year old from Italy is now in India to showcase his Jazz stories by the name of Piano Tales , an information received by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura New Delhi (ITALIAN EMBASSY CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI) Here are the 11 songs from Mr. Enrico Zanisi which he is going to play across Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai and Pune.  PIANO TALES (2016 Cam Jazz) Ouverture Uma Historia Mirage Cut It Out Mà Palabras Stairs No Truth Morse Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most O Du Mein Holder Abendstern He was the highest scorer at classical degree in piano.   His interest in jazz music started at the age of 15; he attended many jazz clinics around Italy studying with K. Werner, J. Calderazzo, L. Grenadier, P. Markowitz, M. Stamm and other great American and Italian musicians. He can be reached here.  ...

‘Lives of Data’ Workshop, 06-07 January 2017, The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.  Call for Abstracts ‘Data’ has been recently termed as the new oil, new soil, new world currency and the raw material for the new industrial revolution. It has been hypothesised that the era of Big Data will finally see the ‘end of theory’. This hyperbole has it that the new technologies being developed today can produce truth based on computations of large amounts of machine readable digital data. Beyond such deterministic claims, the ‘Data Revolution’ indeed poses compelling theoretical and methodological challenges in all fields with stakes in knowledge. The present conjuncture, we would argue, is loaded with possibilities for rethinking ‘data-driven knowledge’ through longer histories of classification, enumeration, quantification, techno-scientific practices, and forms of media storage, retrieval, computational analysis and use. Scholar...

The concept of One Nation and One TAX is certainly one of the biggest tax reform, we have seen in recent decades, perhaps after the independence. Our Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, had announced the demonetization of old Rs. 500 and Rs. 100 bank note denominations on November 8th (last week) and before that, in our previous session, a common consensus on GST was unanimously passed in the Indian parliament.  Now people can enroll their business on the official GST government website-  https://www.gst.gov.in/ starting now to avoid last minute rush.  According to the PMO official website , Modi said that in the last session, a major decision on #GST was taken and the parliament did made a major contribution towards realization of the dream of "One nation, One tax.". He added by saying that when all parties work together in the larger nation interest, positive outcomes and results emerge. The press note adds, "The consultation process has been going on ahead of ...

By now all of us must have visited your nearby ATM and gotten your own money. Thanks, to an unprecedented move by the GOI in the month of November, Rs.500 and Rs.1000 Rupee notes are no longer valid and not to be legal tender anymore, after the midnight of November 9th.   In a Press Release   issued by the RBI- Reserve Bank Of India, combined by a nationwide address by Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, the Issuance  of ₹ 2000 Banknotes and scrapping of the old notes came as a surprise, shock and people were clueless what they need to do next.  The Reserve Bank of India has issued new ₹2000,  ₹500,  ₹1000   denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series, without the inset letter, bearing signature of Dr. Urjit R. Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and the year of printing '2016' printed on the reverse of the banknote. The notes also have "Swachh Bharat Campaign logo.The new denomination has Motif of Mangalyaan on the r...

Women Across the World should break stereotypes and demand fair & equal treatment. They also need to strive for a balance actualize potential, says Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in New Delhi NEW DELHI, July 2, 2014. Ms. Sheryl Sandberg, In her second innings as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook, today underscored the importance of women in the Indian economy. She said that it was imperative (of recognizing women) for any economy to grow and prosper. Adding the essentiality for  women to realize their full potential. Addressing an interactive session of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on ' Lean in: Women, Work and Will to Lead ', Ms. Sandberg said this could be achieved by ensuring equal and fair treatment of women at home and the workplace and attaining more balance at home. Women, she emphasized, should never underestimate their potential and ability. They should enforce their will and must develop a sense of confidence in themselves. Speaking about br...

Indian advertising has witnessed dramatic changes like no other country has, in the world. The transformation reflects the socio-economic changes the world is going through. In the last 50 years advertising has also underwent a lot of changes as far as consumer durable goods is concerned. Post 1943, when India was about to gain independence was still reeling under the euphoria of freedom, its people were facing acute fundamental problems such as food and other shortages, inflation challenges, ongoing war (Indo-Bangladesh)/China/Pakistan/Srilanka/The North East Insurgency India was in fact a reality, the harsh one, such more than the current, then politicians, like Morarji Desai, Indira Gandhi, must have imagined. Poverty and political unrest buoyed the uncomfortability and even more. The 70’s Show Business- It started here Untill the mid 70’s more professionals from the advertising industry started entering the advertising scene. MBA grads from the IITs and IIM’s almost half of...

New Year's twit Happy new year folks and I wish all of you a warm welcome to the new year. If 2013 was about tera and mera this year would be ‘pehle aap’ .   I wish Schumi my wishes for recovery and as I get into 33 in a few hours for now. “Get well and stay floated.” Stay safe