Masood Rezvi is writing a new book on #Inflation

Masood Rezvi, the Chairman and Managing Trustee, author of "Tightening Noose of Poverty" is writing another book on inflation.

Inflation, as a macroeconomic phenomenon is not only known to all of us but its effects are felt in our day to day  life. Broadly speaking it is a regime of increasing general price levels. It is caused when supply fails to keep pace with speeding demand. You can imagine two cars in a race one is demand and the other is supply. When demand starts speeding up and supply fails to accelerate at a matching pace the distance between the two goes on increasing. This is what economists call inflation.

The great depressions of 1929, it is said, was reigned by following the recipe suggested by John Maynard Keynes. He firmly believed that demand creates its own supply  and to achieve full employment governments must boost demand by encouraging investment and expenditure even through deficit budgeting. True as it might be it has resulted in a never ending inflation. Inflation has at times turned into stagflation but never a full control on it.

Inflation however is a re distributor of wealth. It shifts wealth from fixed income earners to profit earners and from salaried employees to governments. Inflation, it is said, is a sin. All governments denounce it and all governments indulge into it ...

If interested in keeping a regular watch on the progress of reference and related material collection on the subject, you may regularly visit our page Literature Reviewed for Masood Rezvi's Book on Inf...

Ms Asma Jawed Advocate: Trustee

A law graduate from University of Lucknow, Asma is pursuing her Masters in Social Works. She has great passion and respect for sports and outdoor activities, has participated in many sports events like National Sports Festival Maharashtra(2007),State Games Lucknow (January 2006), Dr Rajendra Prasad Memorial All India Ranking Tournament Patna (December 2007), National Sports Festival Jammu & Kashmir (December 2004) State Games Agra (September 2004), All India Inter-University Tournament Bangalore (2003-04), Aita Inter-State Tennis Tournament Gurgaon (November 2004) National Sports Festival  Punjab (October 2003), All India Ranking Tournament Patna (January 2005) All India Inter-University Tournament Jaipur(2002-03), Hindalco AITA Super Series Tennis Tournamnet Renukoot (May 2003), UPLTA State Tennis Tournament Lucknow (June 2002), ELDECO AITA Chanpionship Series Lucknow (2004) and Dr Rajendra Prasad Memorial All India Ranking Tournament Patna (December 2008). She has attended camps at Gymkhana Club Lucknow (2002) and National Tennis Academy Gurgaon (2005). She won the 3rd Sameer Misra Memorial Teachers' State Badminton Championship organised by the B.S.N.V Institute Lucknow (Feb. 2015), got First Prize in the State Games Lucknow (January 2006) and in the State Games Agra (September 2004). She emerged as a Quarter Finalist in All India Ranking Tennis Tournament Patna (January 2005), Semi Finalist in All India Ranking Tennis Tournamnet (2003), Pre-Quarter Finalist in Dr. Rajendra Prasad Memorial All India Ranking Tournament Patna (December 2007), Quarter Finalist in Dr. Rajendra Prasad Memorial All India Ranking Tournament Patna(December 2008) and Semi Finalist in AITA Talent Series(2004). She has been associated with La Martinière Girls College, Lucknow in the capacity of Physical Education Instructress and Tennis Coach since 2007, and is the Sports Coordinator at Unity Degree College. She is also a member of the GB of Unity Technical Institute Society.

Mr Murtaza Hasnain Khan Advocate: Trustee

Mr Murtaza Hasnain Khan is an Advocate by training and profession, heading the Max Law Firm at Lucknow. He is a member of the Management Committee of Unity Technical Institute Society and Unity Degree College, is the Secretary at the Justice Murtaza Husain Educational Charitable Trust and is the Chief Coordinator at the Unity Degree College.

Mr H. K. Mazhari IAS (Retd): Honorary Trustee

He is a Civil Engineer and a City Planner by training, having obtained his Bachelor of Engineering Degree from National Institute of Technology Allahabad and Masters in City Planning from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is also an Alumni of International Institute of Aerial Surveys and Earth Sciences Enschede, Netherlands. He is a fellow of Institute of Town Planners India and life member of Indian Institute of Public Administration New Delhi. He has nearly 45 years of experience of working in the field of Urban Planning, Urban Development, Urban Management and Urban Governance. After his retirement from the Indian Administrative Service as Commissioner and Secretary Urban Development, Government of Meghalaya, he took to consultancy and worked as a free lance consultant in projects funded by Multilateral Agencies like Asian Development Bank besides projects supported by Japan Bank for International, Cooperation where he worked as Institutional Expert, Team leader, Urban Utility Management Specialist, Urban Governance Specialist.

Hon'ble Mr Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza: Patron

His Lordship is a former Senior Judge of the Hon'ble High Court of Judicature, Allahabad (Lucknow Bench). Much like his illustrious father, Hon'ble Late Mr Justice Murtaza Husain, he too has a great inclination for serving the less fortunate human beings. He is chairing the Unity Technical Institute Society, an NGO founded by his father which is running the Unity Degree College at Lucknow, as well as the management committee of that college. He has also started a girls school at village Sidhnath, Asiwan, Unnao for destitute female children in the name of his mother Late Mrs. Shahar Bano Begum Sahiba. That school is being managed by Justice Murtaza Husain Educational Charitable Trust which is an NGO dedicated to this purpose, chaired by the Hon'ble Justice.

Prof B. N. Singh: Patron

Prof B N Singh is a passionate Agricultural Scientist. He Started his scientific career as an Assistant Professor at GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. Then he joined Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa as an Associate Professor Cum Senior Rice Breeder. He subsequently headed the Plant Breeding Department of that University in the capacity of University Professor cum Chief Scientist. He, then, worked at the International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philipines and  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria. On his return to India, he got the prestigious chair of the Director of Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack. Later on he worked as Director Research at Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi. After retiring from BAU Ranchi he started his own NGO the "Centre for Research and Development" at Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and is busy in helping farmers through his breeder seeds and guiding young agricultural scientists.

Mr Masood Rezvi: The Chairman and Managing Trustee

Supported by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, through their Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), Masood did his M.Sc .Agriculture, from Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa under the guidance of Prof B. N. Singh, and won the University Gold Medal for his batch. His thesis Genetical studies in semi-dwarf indica rice (Oryza sativa L.) under different environments is available for reference in the library of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.

He was immediately selected as Agriculture Officer at the Erstwhile New Bank of India. He served ENBI and Punjab National Bank in different management grades and at different places for seventeen years. During his banking career, he closely interacted with the farmers, rural artisans, glass workers of Firozabad, carpet workers of Bhadohi, and embroidery workers of Lucknow. He passed the Certificated Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (part I) examination and is a life member of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, Mumbai. He has had his training in Rural Development Projects at the College of Agricultural Banking, Pune. During this training he worked on a project for Sericulture (silk growing) farmers in the Karnataka State in association with the State Bank of Mysore. He is also a trained Internal Quality Auditor, trained by Det Norske Veritas and the Bureau of Indian Standards.He coordinated the ISO Certification of the Gorakhpur Regional Office of Punjab National Bank, as the Dy. Management Representative. He also helped in the quality drive at PNB as trainer facilitator and motivator for ISO Certification at Regional Offices at Faizabad and Varanasi, the Zonal Office at Lucknow and many branch offices.  

After taking voluntary retirement from his banking career, he was nominated a member of the State Level Committee for Monitoring and Implementation of Prime Minister's 15 Point Programme and Multisectoral Development Plan for Minority Concentration Districts by the Government of Uttar Pradesh. On the exhortation of his close friend Late Mr. Jawed Murtaza advocate, and at the behest of its founder, Hon'ble Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain, he joined the Unity Technical Institute Society, and is a member of its GB. He did his MBA (Finance) and M.Com and passed the UGC-NET examination. He also served at the Unity Degree College as the Administrator and OSD. He is a member of the Commerce and Management Research Association, Lucknow and a dawami member of Anjuman-e-Wazifa-e-Sadat-wa-Momineen, Aligarh.

He has authored the book "Tightening Noose of Poverty" and compiled the book "Growth with Justice". He has also written many articles and papers in English, Hindi and Urdu, which have been published by different journals and newspapers. He has presented many papers and chaired technical sessions in many seminars.His next book "Inflation" is also on the anvil.