Congress Party “Internal party reforms urgently needed”
Barack Obama“Will Obamaism catch on with the Indian politics?”
The Congress makes moves for signing the nuclear deal! »
Left Adventurism: time to call the bluff!
The Left has really become a pain in the neck. The time has come to call its bluff. It is blackmailing the UPA government almost from day one. It imagines it has the key to unlock the world. Or, to the world’s wisdom!
Such is its self-imagined arrogance that it [...]
Salute to Sam Bahadur! »
Government of India must have conferred the Bharat Ratna
Even on his deathbed, he deserved the highest honour!
Sam Bahadur as he was lovingly and with much indulgence called by one and all is no more. Salute to his memory. He would be remembered for a long time to come.
It is nice to remember that he chose [...]
Public Sector Banks ready with the debt waiver list! »
PSBs badly managed! Inefficient, wasteful of customers’ time and resources!
You can’t but revamp the co-operative credit institutions if you are serious about saving the farmers! Serving the farmers’ long-term interest!
The Finance Minister must revamp a whole lot of banking and financial institutions!
The debt waiver scheme is okey but not the end of the road. It [...]
Literature and culture »
Elusive Terrain: culture and literary memory
By Meenakshi Mukherjee, 200 pages, OUP, 2008
Now and then, it is nice to read a book by specialist on topics like literature and culture. Meenakshi Mukherjee is a veteran academic specialising in contemporary Indian literature. Both in the Indian languages and that is more important than just talking about the [...]
China produces record harvest for the 5th year in a two! »
Almost more than double the size of food grains!
What is the secret of the high Chinese farm production and productivity? We have so many experts and so many travellers to China. They must bring back some useful insights into the Chinese farming development strategy.
It looks there is a heavily subsidised farming practice, there seems to [...]
Manmohan Singh’s tenure will end when? »
Congress party must become more democratic.
If you live in Delhi, perhaps, you might become immune to any new winds of change. May be you would be a government servant or a politician, even a minister or an MP, from outside Delhi from one of the states. Or, otherwise, you might be one of those small-time [...]
West Bengal panchayat elections: violence and losses! »
The great humbug of democratic power devolution!
The rural poor continue to be neglected!
Luckily, the West Bengal’s long-time claims of fame for its ideological purity stands exposed. The Left managed to brainwash a whole generation or two about its real intentions.
It has never been a patriotic front. The CPI was better. The CPI (M) became the [...]
Oxford academic programme for India’s development? »
And a Chinese scholar who hasn’t visited India to lead the research team?
Oxford University is doing some innovative programmes on India, it seems. We should wlecome it in India for such innovative programmes, planned and run from far off, from a vantage academic background must surely give us, in India in particular some rare insights.
First, [...]
Jaswant Singh’s secularism has disheartened me! »
Not long ago on a visit to Delhi, I chanced upon Jaswant Singh, the former foreign minister under Vajpayee at the India International Centre, on the Lodi Road. It was nice to see a very urbane and erudite man, I thought. I had read his books, the latest being his deeply moving autobiography and I [...]
Asian nations and India »
India must have its own well-defined foreign policy!
India must have its own well-defined self-perception!
China will always be our troublesome neighbour and big brother
Mr.Pranab Mukerjee, our foreign minister made a recent visit to China. What did he do there and what did he achieve?
Not much. There are criticisms in the press that he went almost [...]
