American elections: Democratic Primaries »
Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton prove
Race and Gender don’t matter in American democracy!
In India? Modi and Mayawati win: Religion and Caste still wins elections here!
In America the election of the President is clear from day one. Only one wins and he or she wins through a process of open election. The election process is very [...]
PM’s China visit likely to produce what results? »
I shook hands with Chouc-En-Lai!
PM’s moves and priorities won’t help the Congress!
Prime Minister’s asking China’s co-operation to help India in the civil nuclear power programme looks a bit untenable. USA might help India because of strategic advantages. But will China help? And, pray, is the Prime Minister right in pushing for nuclear power that leads [...]
Indian National Congress-its future »
Bangalore
Date : 08.1.2008
Mrs.Sonia Gandhi,
President, Indian National Congress,
24, Akbar Road,
New Delhi
Dear Mrs.Gandhi,
Sub : Indian National Congress-its future
Let me wish you a happy new year. I also wish you a speedy recovery of health.
I am sure the series of reverses in the state elections, more so after the Gujarat verdict, must have been a troubling thought for [...]
Sciences, the social sciences and humanities »
Reason and Faith
How to create a secular India, a secular democratic society?
“Two extravagances: to exclude Reason, to admit only Reason”
Blaise Pascal
Modern life is as much about sciences and religion, as they ever was at any time. Also, reason and faith. They too are as much about our life, our everyday life as ever!
But there is [...]
What Sonia Gandhi must do? »
Reward Prakash and Siddaramiah!
All leaders from Karnataka, who are surrounding around Sonia Gandhi in Delhi, must be sent out to distant places with some new jobs!
Trusting new comers is often better than trusting the old timers!
Karnataka is in a political turmoil. Who has turned the once model state, much-admired for its many progressive policies into [...]
Inclusive growth? »
Without agri sector being part of it?
PM confesses it is a “peculiar puzzle”!
The next general elections will be won or lost on farmer’s issues?
The PM is clueless and might not care for!
Yes, the next elections are looming large on everyone’s mind. The 54th National Development Council meeting saw enough to doubt whether the PM is [...]
Prof.Amartya Sen, Prof.Tapan Raychaudhury on rural India »
Rural Indian can be saved, for sure!
Rural India needs a new focus
Institutional changes are called for
There is no room for any complacency about rural India.
There is much that needs to be done.
To reduce the number of people under poverty trap.
The National Commission on Enterprises in Unorganised Sector headed by the competent Dr.Arjun Sengupta could be [...]
How to draw people and resources to agriculture? »
World economic slow-down affects Indian growth
Food prices on the rise world over and so our food self-sufficiency goal at risk
Climate changes can impact India’s agriculture prospects and we need a new agriculture strategy
These are now the world scenario as far as India’s agriculture prospects are concerned.
Yes, as for the economic growth rate for India to [...]
How is our economy evolving? »
Are we creating a just society? Or an unjust one?
Are we a liberal democracy? A liberal society? Isn’t the Prime Minister confused about subsidies? Indian economy may be growing fast.
But it is still an unjust and an iniquitous economy and society that we are pursuing in India. There are faulty economic policies, especially for the [...]
An unstable rural India emerging! »
Why our villages remain as they are?
Why our agriculture neglected? It is Gandhi-Nehru legacies of an idealistic or unrealistic world views?
C.K.Prahalad, the management guru had put forward the thesis of “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”. Who the BOP? The poor, right? But then, where does the real rural India come in? The various [...]