Game of phones Facebook, Twitter and Apple get into the television business Tech firms are splashing out on new series Print edition | Business Aug 24th 2017 | NEW YORK incredibleendeavour.blogspot.com ON AUGUST 27th the season finale of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”, one of the most expensively produced series in television history, will air to an audience of more than 10m Americans. When it ends, viewers can switch to one of the most inexpensively produced shows in the industry, “Talk the Thrones”, in which boffins sit around and discuss HBO’s show. Hundreds of thousands are expected to watch. Besides the obvious gap in entertainment value (one has dragons, the other has people talking about them), there is another distinction between the series. “Game of Thrones” is available only for a subscription on pay TV. “Talk the Thrones” is free on Twitter, produced by a digital site called The Ringer and sponsored by Verizon, a telecommunications giant. Al
Far from the madness of metro life, a child lies lifelessly on the floor of a public hospital distant from his village, hovering somewhere between the brutality of life and the sick, sad humor called democracy. A destitute mother is praying to the almighty; will he survive and fulfill his dreams? This could be the story of any child in India who lives in villages, small towns, and remote areas of cities. Now the question arises: what went wrong, who was responsible for the same – the government, me, or you? In India, there are approximately 600 million people with little or no access to healthcare. India has a private system where you pay out of pocket, which drives accountability, but a significant percentage of the population simply can’t afford it. Currently, the doctor-patient ratio in India is 1:1,700; the World Health Organization stipulates a minimum ratio of 1:1,000. There are 387 medical colleges in the country, with 181 in the government and 206 in the priva