The best people to make laws for the press are journalists themselves.

In a democratic set up, free speech works like oxygen. In a country like India where a number of cultures and languages prevail, free speech and expression plays all the more a very important role. It would be equivalent to a murder if somebody puts restrictions on the fundamental rights of speech and expressions and do not allow someone to communicate one’s thoughts in its original form. Media is considered as the fourth estate of democracy, the other three being, judiciary, executive and legislative. Hence, media should be a totally independent body without any control or regulation from outside. The word ‘Journalism’ itself represents the freedom of thoughts and expressions. The ‘Press’ played a very important role in our freedom struggle and has been quite successful. One should not even think of locking them into any kinds of regulatory chains.

When Siba Sankar Mohanty, Head of the Department of Economics, Doon University, asked me to prepare a review of the Department and the career potentials of the pass-outs of the School of Social Sciences, I was under the impression that he wanted me to prepare a promotional write up on the department. But in the course of preparation of this article I realised that the motive was rather to highlight 'Economics' as a trade in the career training of young professionals and to prepare an analysis of the extent to which, the Department of Economics, Doon University, is committed to cater to the need for fusion of the complex social and personal aspirations of young minds with the political and business aspirations of an emerging economy. What I have attempted to present here is an outcome of a month long exercise of collection of information, review of different universities in India and elsewhere, review of literature, interviews with students- parents and other faculty members of the Department and numerous sessions of discussion with Prof. Mohanty on the issues emerging out of such exercise. The task that was in no way  lesser than a research on contemporary debate on career goals and choice trade-offs, finally got shaped in the form of what follows. The author is only responsible for a compilation of secondary information and some perceptions, and is thankful to all who participated in the activity.