The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the best description of it. The Bureaucracy of Beauty begins with nineteenth-century Britain's Department of Science and Arts, a venture organized by the Board of Trade, and how the DSA exerted a powerful influence on the growth of museums, design schools, and architecture throughout the British Empire. But this is only the book's literal subject: in a remarkable set of chapters, Dutta explores the development of international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design pedagogy, the technological distinction between craft and industry, the relation of colonial tutelage to economic policy, the politics and technology of exhibition, and competing philosophies of aesthetics. His thinking across these areas is ignited by engagements with Benjamin, Marx, Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, Kant, Mill, Ruskin, and Gandhi. A rich study in the history of ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, The Bureaucracy of Beauty converges on the issues of present-day globalization. From nineteenth-century Britain to twenty-first century America, The Bureaucracy of Beauty offers a theory of how things - big things -change.

The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the best description of it. The Bureaucracy of Beauty begins with nineteenth-century Britain's Department of Science and Arts, a venture organized by the Board of Trade, and how the DSA exerted a powerful influence on the growth of museums, design schools, and architecture throughout the British Empire. But this is only the book's literal subject: in a remarkable set of chapters, Dutta explores the development of international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design pedagogy, the technological distinction between craft and industry, the relation of colonial tutelage to economic policy, the politics and technology of exhibition, and competing philosophies of aesthetics. His thinking across these areas is ignited by engagements with Benjamin, Marx, Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, Kant, Mill, Ruskin, and Gandhi. A rich study in the history of ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, The Bureaucracy of Beauty converges on the issues of present-day globalization. From nineteenth-century Britain to twenty-first century America, The Bureaucracy of Beauty offers a theory of how things - big things -change.

This book is an intensive reconsideration of the very first site-specific installation staged in India. Vivan Sundaram, one of India's most innovative artists, located his History Project, marking fifty years of Indian independence, in a hugely visited and popular public institution, the Victoria Memorial and Museum in Kolkata. The artist's choice of setting was by way of a challenge: to 'occupy' an imperial edifice and change its orientation; to reflect India's struggle for independence and the emerging nation's stake in modernity through an anachronistic mirror; and to engage with postcolonial contradictions through recursive narration. It needed an artwork scaled to the proportion of these issues and the book examines how Sundaram met this challenge. His ideology and aesthetic, his formal choices and method, are critically investigated in a series of essays contributed by distinguished authors: cultural theorists, art and architectural historians. The book carries abundant, well-annotated illustrations of the complex installation.

I started my journey as an entrepreneur sometime mid 1972. Just a few months previous I had enrolled for my M.Sc. degree in Physics at the Banaras Hindu University - BHU as is commonly known. After my graduation in Physics - B.Sc., end 1969, I and my friends discussed at length our possible goals. We were a bunch of guys still at 19, with no clue what life was out there. What little we knew was from our seniors who were whiling away their time after their degree doing precious nothing as no jobs were forth coming. Calcutta particularly was in turmoil owing to a radical communist group indulging in violence of all kinds. Our goal looked pretty obvious, a post graduate degree and hopefully a tenure ship at some community college. Looking back after 43 years I find four in the bunch of five went into teaching and/or research. I refused to tow that line. It not only sounded cliche, I was never cut out to be a teacher. But before I venture into what I did, let me share a secret. One in the group Subir was an excellent student and a skilled person in electronics. I spent hours with him planning and dreaming about projects and devices we were competent to fabricate and sell. Now he too is a teacher at a University near Frankfurt, Germany. I am extremely disappointed. Not because he became a teacher and is fairly happy. But what an opportunity both of us let go by. Would his life been better and happier as an entrepreneur? I will never know the answer. After some 40 odd years as an entrepreneur, I needed to tell my side of the story. Every non-fiction author does that. Therefore mine was no different. But there is a difference. That was when I put pen to paper trying to get across to this segment of the people who are somewhat muddled in their thought process. My narration takes one back to 1972. However, India has economically opened up to the global markets from 1996, though the government policies were liberalized from 1992. Therefore the first 24 years were sort of the 'dark ages' that I speak of in my book. Post 1996 we happen to see a number of knowledge industries blooming - Information Technology, Bio-Technology, Hospitality, Retail Trade etc. The newer industries have created enormous employment opportunity for the educated youth. That is surely the silver lining. The dark clouds have suddenly become darker sometime in 2006/7 when associations of business and industries made public that majority of the technology graduates were un-employable. This statement also brought forth the stark reality that large sections of the population - focusing on the youth - who are not technical graduates have no skill of their own to make them employable. The 70% of the 1.20b people that inhabit India are those below the age of 35. For the political parties it raised a number of red flags. The government scrambled to correct the situation through measures like National Skill Development Programs. Skills are not taught in classrooms. It takes years to inculcate skills in any trade and needs exposure to BEST PRACTICE. I remember a V.P. of a global BPO referring to attitudes of their employees. Yes, the employees were reasonably good in English as a language. But when one customer defaulted in payments, the conversation went something like this - 'Ma'am, your payments are overdue'. Customer, 'Sorry I had a miscarriage and was hospitalized'. Call center, 'That's not our problem.' I too was shocked as it was narrated verbatim. Can we set things right in the next few years for the youth that number 840m? Do you think it is doable? My book tries to walk you through the various hurdles in our country. It will be simplistic to conclude that with new policies of the government, issues on the ground are far better now. That is for you to DECIDE. All I say 'Look before you Leap'

This book examines various approaches, methodologies, and issues related to evaluation of the impact of health programs in developing countries and ways to make program evaluation more rigorous. Health interventions that are effective in developed countries may not be as effective in developing countries given the differing social, economic, cultural, and infrastructure factors that may affect a program's implementation and outcomes. This monograph is intended to promote an understanding of why program evaluation is a critical component of any health intervention and to stimulate discussion on ways to make evaluation of health interventions in developing countries more rigorous.