DK Kapila The Oracle

Eavesdropper Me! Absolutely Not!. By Dinesh K Kapila Eavesdropping is understood as defined as the act of secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent. It is commonly thought to be not really ethical and there is an old adage that "eavesdroppers seldom hear anything good of themselves...eavesdroppers always try to listen to matters that concern them’. Now maybe I ought to be discussing overhearing, but we will discuss this aspect later. The problem is that people seem to have forgotten the art of being discreet, of whispered or low voiced discussions or at least watching out as to who is around. Now take this gem, a young newly married couple is walking in the park at the same pace as I am, I assume newly married as the bride is still wearing the bangles (churra) indicating her newly acquired marital status. Now the guy is cribbing about his lack of acceptability by his in laws and their culture and ...

Rural Transformation and Sustained Growth of Agriculture. By Dinesh K Kapila In India the composition of the poor, primarily concentrated in rural areas, has been changing and rural poverty is getting concentrated in agricultural labour and artisanal households and urban poverty in casual labour households. Agricultural labour households account for 41% of rural poor in 1993–94 as well as in 2004–05. The share of the self employed in agriculture among the rural poor had fallen from 32% to 21.6%. Casual labour households accounted for 62.6% in 1993–94 in urban areas and 56.5% in 2004–05. The occupational composition of rural poor varied across the States. In general, in developed states / regions poverty was highly concentrated among agricultural labour households, and in contrast in backward states / regions poverty extended to other occupational groups including the self-employed in agricultur...

Business Communication In Organisations – Concepts, Barriers, Challenges and Relevance to the Governmental Sector. by Dinesh K Kapila, AGM NABARD Shimla (written for a journal, yet to be published) A. Concepts - Communication as such is inherent in all phases of managing, though it is one of the most important components of effective leadership. It can be defined as the process of transfer of information from the sender to the receiver in such a manner that the information is understood by the receiver. Any attempt at discussing the process of communication has to focus on the sender of the communication, the transmission of information itself and the receiver of the message being transmitted. The barriers to effective communication and the mode of feedback also need to be discussed in any analysis of the process of communication. It would be quite appropriate to state at the outset that the communication function is the means to bring about a ...