Congress Party “Internal party reforms urgently needed”
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Who says rural India is in shambles? »
Rural India is now a changed place!
50% of the GDP now comes from rural India. Also, nearly 50 % of the rich and very rich are rural households.
This is how a leading national newspaper headlines its story! Rural India in shambles! Rural India had been a game for long. It is both good politics and [...]
Manmohan Singh’s difficulties! »
The PM hasn’t allayed India’s fears about American defence relations!
Fears about Indo-US co-operation on our strategic defence not allayed by the PM and his advisers.
The Indo-US nuclear deal has created a deadlock for the UPA. The Left is posturing. Everyone who knows the history and the mentality of the Indian Communists says that the Left [...]
India after 60 years of freedom »
India must articulate our own global vision and an independent strategic broad picture Indo-US nuclear deal is clearly for India’s advantage So,why this running away from realities and our weakness for factionalist politics?
It is a great pity that after the Left threat to withdraw support for the government,Prime Minister Manmohan [...]
Women empowerment in India »
How to assess Sonia Gandhi’s leadership?
Kiran Bedi can’t have the cake and eat it too! While serving in uniform, you can’t play a Medha Patkar or a Mamata Banerjee!
Women empowerment is taken, mistakenly,as putting women in political office! This is just an empowerment by accident! The “widows syndrome”! In the Western societies [...]
America needs India’s strategic friendship »
India should respond magnanimously and with confidence in the future!
The USA is a super power not in the ordinary sense of the term in which it is always couched and understood.To understand the current world developments,the globalisation and all that we need to have a look at the past,a look at history of the long past [...]
Can Dr.Manmohan Singh take India into the 21st century world? »
Thoughts on the new crisis that grips the Prime Minister
The US,in alliance with UK,still think of winning the war in Iraq.That is the assumption.But major powers, the G-8 and other powers,think otherwise.The point is that to fight the war against terror is also fraught with problems,as the terrorists constitute an invisible state!So,America needs many more [...]
PM takes up agriculture only when other difficulties face him! »
Agriculture, a soft topic or soft target?
The magic 4 per cent farm growth will elude the Prime Minister,we warn!The Independence day came and the Prime Minister could not feel free to speak! Yes,he was faced with a major crisis!The Left allies in the UPA threatened to withdraw support for his government on the Indo-nuclear deal!So,he [...]
Tirupati, Kalahasti and the Chandragiri fort »
Mass tourism is welcome! But provide more infrastructure!
Preserving heritage sites,visiting the monuments and appreciating the same is what constitutes man’s search for identity,a link with his past.Heritage education, cultural heritage must be integrated with the religious and spiritual quest of the pilgrimage in the new age of mass tourism.Some thoughts. India has a rich history [...]
Thoughts on 60 years of independence! »
Time for introspection!We are celebrating 60 years of Independence! What thoughts grips the minds of citizens?Of course India has come a long way. Our first five year plan had only Rs.20,000 crores as the plan expenditure!We had just 25 universities!The best salary of the best brains,be it ICS or the corporate CEOs then were mere peanuts!Today,the [...]
Let us understand the dynamics of societies! »
An unequal and inequitous society?
Our society is inegalitarian; hierarchical only!
Only social sciences can give us that rare insight into human behaviour,human psychology and also much of the social dynamics without which we can’t talk possibly with any deeper sense about the future.
A new Liberalism in times of so much terror and destruction and violence?
The [...]
