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Manmohan Singh : Nominated PM in Parliamentary Democracy

A cowardly world we are creating? The new dictators might be terrorists or the nuclear adventurers? Time to  look at our democratic pretensions very critically! The world thought that after 1989,the world  would turn on to a new civilisation. The “end of history” and the dawn of a liberal democracy, the world believed with confidence. Now, we see the new dangers. Democracies, says a new book, from Singapore to India to China to Russia... 

March 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Jyoti Basu and Left legacy in West Bengal

Whenever a high personality, a very senior ideological patriach like Jyoti Basu, 95, passes away, it is natural we tend to become emotional... 

February 19 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Republic Day Speeches

Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh call for best and brightest people to politics What is really happening today? Who should make the... 

January 29 2010 / 3 Comments / Read More »

India must create Asian Democratic Union

The new Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama is seen as diplomatically active.  In India he spoke his mind, he urged India to comply... 

January 13 2010 / 2 Comments / Read More »

Economics

Prime Minister on the drought and his response inadequate!

Finance Minister’s response too seems not pro-active either! FM’s approach to rural regional bank branch expansion must be more comprehensive and more target-focused! There is a severe drought hitting the agricultural sector in a serious manner. The heart-rending stories are difficult to read. There are farmers’ suicides from many states, notably in AP, it is really unbelievable. The TV channels beam visuals that must have hurt our pride and our many claims on many fronts. So, then... 

Aug 7, 2009 / Read More »

Philosophy

Philosophy, Politics, Economy and Society

Academic knowledge is not enough! Also economic knowledge is also not enough! The world needs more interactive civil society activism! There is A Knowledge Commission deliberating about creating a knowledge society. But what is knowledge precisely. Knowledge is a word first coined by a management guru, Peter Drucker, 30 years ago. So also came the knowledge worker. And now the talk of competitive advantage for a more knowledge-based economy and society. But there is a deeper meaning to knowledge.... 

Mar 15, 2007 / Read More »

Agriculture

We welcome US co-operation in modernisation of Indian agri sector!

Why does one go for a secret new agribusiness  pact with the USA? Why the secrecy, why this below radar deal? A five column  news report appears in the national daily on such captioned  title. The government only last week, that is, just a week before the presentation of the budget “quietly secured a Cabinet approval with the United  States that aims, among other things, at promoting the privatisation of agricultural extension services and facilitating  collaborations between American... 

Mar 3, 2010 / Read More »

Education

The world is now a better educated place

Thanks to technological revolutions and tools Every country has its own education traditions and cultures Dominant cultures dominate! Education in the New Year? What Indian education is like? Have we made progress in the education front? Yes, India has made a lot of progress in education. The New Year must give us some new ideas and new beliefs. Education is now expanding and everyone is also talking about education. So, education is a vast subject and a vast ocean. This magazine is being read by... 

Jan 13, 2010 / Read More »
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