Kalam for a second term? »
Presidential elections in India have always been marked by political controversies!
Abdul Kalam’s chances for a re-nomination looks slim to impossible!
India’s President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam is soon to lay down office. The political parties have already taken up the issue of the next Presidential candidate in all its seriousness with an eye on the ongoing UP Assembly [...]
Outsourcing, the Bangalore’s cutting edge money spinner! »
Changing nature of outsourcing-let us understand!
The world is flat and India is at the epicenter of the flat world!
Outsourcing is Bangalore IT industry’s new cutting edge opportunity. It started in several forms, business process outsourcing to now so many other more focused areas.
The current mood in Bangalore is one of restlessness of youth employed in [...]
A study of Indian character needed »
Indian character, the Indian mindset have haunted and disturbed me for long. Unless we study and understand how the Indian character had evolved through the ages, how our character is shaped by our long history of oppression and suppression, we can’t understand ourselves fully. We can’t in turn understand the world outside also fully!
We are [...]
Dravidian era: a great illusion? »
The coming of the Dravidian politics is seen by many uncritical elements as a great blessing. I consider the opposite is true! The illusion of Tamil supremacy stands disproved!
Pawar throws the tool! »
Confesses India would lose self-sufficiency in food!
The Government must make a strong commitment to make India self-sufficient in food!
Sharad Pawar, the agri minister, is in the news lately for all the wrong news! Poor man, he should be worried about India’s growing food deficit. Yes, he seems to be worried. Not so overtly. For all [...]
“Trust me” stance of the Prime Minister doesn’t impress the Indian opinion. »
“Trust me” stance of the Prime Minister doesn’t impress the Indian opinion.
On such critical issues like US- Indo nuclear deal, Indo-Pak negotiations or China or Sri Lanka hasn’t won friends and supporters for him. The PM is relying on select officials and has no stomach for educating public opinion. An M.K.Narayanan, Sivashankara Menon or Shyam [...]
“Who is Who” of the Madras Legislative Council »
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Madras Legislative Council is perhaps the first legislative body set up in India in the then Madras Presidency. So it has a enviable pedigree and commanded great prestige and attracted great talents. I was elected [...]
Saiva Siddhanta - Journal »
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I was always interested in Indian philosophical issues. There is a close affinity between Tamil language and Saiva Siddhanta philosophy. In the year 1966 I was asked to write an article comparing western and Indian [...]
The future of politics and liberty »
100 responses from the intellectuals and writers
The British magazine for writers and intellectuals asked its contributors the question: Left versus right defined the 20th century. What’s next? 100 Prospect contributors responded (Prospect March 2007) and what are their responses like? There is evident pessimism! Almost nobody expects the world better in the coming decades, and [...]
We need a full-time agriculture minister! »
So too a full-time PDS minister!
Also a full-time co-operatives minister!
Agriculture is becoming more and more hopeless and unviable. It is a great national shame that farmers and their families undergo in Vidharba. Readers, please go through the editorial, for details. As we write, there is another heart-breaking n new from Karnataka.
A fairly successful farmer who [...]