Thursday, January 27, 2011

About Me

A Professional Manager and Business Economist during 1970-2002 in Commercial Banking, Coal Mining, Development Banking, Investment Management and Investment Banking Companies. Born in Calcutta (Kolkata), Alum of University of Calcutta (M.A. Economics), Indian Statistical Institute (Ph.D.)and Harvard Business School(ISMP), comprehensively enjoyed executive life: 11 years in Kolkata (United Bank of India and Coal India), next 18 years in Mumbai (Industrial Development Bank of India and Unit Trust of India),and finally 2 years in Kolkata as Chairman and Managing Director of Industrial Investment Bank of India. Since 2002 enjoying lively association as Independent Non-exccutive Director of companies (currently with ITC Ltd, Mahanagar Gas Ltd, Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Ltd, Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd, SREI Venture Capital Ltd, Sumedha Fiscal Ltd and Himadri Chemicals & Industries Ltd. Interests: economics/ economists, globalisation, uncertainty and risk, financial markets, Stochastic Destiny Principle, cosmology, Individual liberty and freedom, and love. Contributed articles to verious journals/ financial papers and associated with the management education.

Blog Directory

1. Blog Directory http://basudebsen000.blogspot.com/
2. My Prayers http://basudebsenpoetry.blogspot.com/
3. Essence of My Own Gita http://senland.blogspot.com,
4. My Retranslation of Gita http://gita18.blogspot.com/
5. Stochastic Destiny http://basudebsenland.blogspot.com,
6. Sen's Amusement Economics http://senkonomix.blogspot.com/
7. Economics Concepts http://wondereconomy.blogspot.com/
8. Sensing Investment http://senfinvestment.blogspot.com/
9. Entertaining Kolkata http://senskolkatamonitor.blogspot.com/
10.Democratic Exploitation & Oppression http://basudebsen05.blogspot.com/
11. Religion: Intellectuals & Politicians http://courtingreligion.blogspot.com
12. My Articles http://sensarticles.blogspot.com/
13. Origins & Uinverse http://senhomeland.blogspot.com/
14. My Life Unfolding Voyage http://myunfoldingvoyage.blogspot.com/
15. Cosmology: Universe of Ignorance http://universeofignorance.blogspot.com/

Sunday, May 3, 2009

A List of My Articles

My Articles/Speeches

[This is essentially a list. Those readily available in Word form are posted at http://sensarticles.blogspot.com/. Should one be interested in reading any of the others not in http://sensarticles.blogspot.com/, I would be glad to send copy by mail or refer source for access- as many articles were published much before computers and internet technology were available.]

A. Period 2001 – 2004
36. Savings & Investment Market, RS Bhatt Memorial Lecture, Surat University, Surat, 2001
37. Performance of Mutual Funds, Workshop, Jadavpur University, 2002
38. Future of Financial Markets, Vyapar, Mumbai, 2002,
39. Organisational Mind, International Journal of
Human Resource Development, Inderscience Publishers, January 2003.
40. Indian Experiment in Development Banking for Industry,
Artha Beekshan, 2003
41. Beyond Developing, Vyapar, 2003
42. Cost of Delays, Design Deficiency and Implementation Inefficiency, 2003
43. Scope, Design And Accountability of Financial Regulation,
UNDP Round Table on Financial Sector Regulation, April 24, 2004, organized by National Law School University, Bangalore, India.

B. Period 1992- 2000
31. Benefits of Competition, Economic Times, 1994
32. Banking In Search of Strategy, Economic Times, 1999
33. Corporate Governance, Business Standard, 1998
34. Interest Rates & Indian Economy, Economic Times, 1999
35. A critique of Old Age Security System in India, Workshop
Paper for OASIS at Goa, 1999


C. Period 1974-1990

1. Lead Bank Scheme And Area Development, Econ, 11, 1973
2. Inter Branch Flow of Funds and Transfer Price System, Prajnan, National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), July-Sept,1974
3. Progress under Lead Bank Scheme, The Commerce Guide, March 1976
4. On Multiple Transfer Price System, Prajnan (NIBM), Jan- Mar, 1976
5. Performance of Bank Groups since Nationalisation, The Banker, July 1976
6. Linkages Among Business Planning Activities in Banks, The Commerce Guide, July 1977
7. Management Information System in Banks, Business Standard, Feb. 11 & 12, 1977
8. Banks and their Research needs, Business Standard, October 11 & 12, 1977
9. Scheduling Repayment of Term Loans, Prajnan (NIBM), April-June 1978
10. Bank Finance for Rural Development: Some Issues in Planning and Evaluation of Credit, The Commerce Guide, June-July 1978
11. Planning Models in Bankers’ Aid, Business Standard, 1978
12. Finance for Sick Units, Business Standarnd, Feb.13 & 14, 1979
13. Finance & Industrial Restructuring: A Consistency Approach, Paper for Seminar organized by Economic Development Institute at New Delhi, March 1990 ( with S. M. Palia)
14. Branch Performance: Comparative Evaluation Through Transfer Price System (1990)
15. Project Selection Criteria: Few Comparisons, The Commerce Guide, June 1977
16. Some Aspects of Project Appraisal: An Informal Review, The Commerce Guide, April-May 1977
17. Rediscovery of Black Diamond – A Lesson in Economics of Exhaustible Resources, The Commerce Guide, Jan.1978
18. Pricing of Coal: A Historical Account, Coal India bulletin, 1979
19. Energy Prices and Policy, Business Standard, Sept. 6 & 7, 1978
20. Some Lessons from Coal Crises, Business Standard, Sept25, 1978
21. Energy Implicated Decisions/ Operations & Internal Audit, Society of Internal Auditors, Annual Conference, 1981
22. Accounting For Nuclear Power, Economic & Political Weekly, Oct.10, 1981
23. Corporate Planning: A De-conceptualisation, Business Standard May 13 & 15, 1978
24. Banking Responses to Energy Pinch, Business Standard, 1978
25. Management Organisation: Unequal to Goals, Business Standard, Jan 31, 1979
26. Factors in Efficient Use, Allocation of Capital, Business Standard, May 12, 1979
27. Analysing Objectives of Coal India for Corporate Planning, Minetech, Vol4, Nos. 3&4, CMPDI, Ranchi
28. Corporate Planning in Public Sector: Economist Planner’s Dilemma, Decision, IIM Calcutta, July 1981
29. Inter Coal Mines Efficiency Comparison, Management in Government, Vol. XIV, No.3, Oct-Dec, 1982
30. Towards an Economic Theory of Corporate Planning (mimeo), 1981

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Blog Directory

There are now 9 (Nine) places to click from this place and return back. These are listed on the right for easy accessibility and latest posts.

1. Basudeb Sen's Unfolding Stochastic Voyage is the postscript diary of the still incomplete voyage.
2. Basudeb Sen's Stochastic Destiny Process is about God, Gossip and the Stochastic Destiny Principle
3.Basudeb Sen's Essence of Gita is the weird 21st century guess on the scientific theory of God. This is best referred to along with the Dialogues with God in Basudeb Sen's Stochastic Destiny Process as also
4. The n-th Translation of the 18 Chapters of Gita in Gita: A Basudeb Sen Voyage.
5.Amusement Sensekonmix is the Amaging Real World where everyone is an economist guided by the public intellectuals and the media as the naturally gifted,impressively talented GRUS of Economics.
6. Democratic Science of Exploitation is about the nature and foundations of Democracy, Republics, and Socialism in the 21st century.
7. My Prayers
8. My Articles - mostly those since 2002 available in word file

There are obvious duplication and overlap. Enjoy or get disgusted or ignore the weird reasoning and in-Sen views.