Needs to be raised high! Prime Minister out of hospital and still recuperating! Yet unwilling to delegate authority to his colleagues! Eight or nine Cabinet positions kept vacant! No deputy Prime Minister nor independent Finance Minister! What is happening in India? To the Indian democracy? To India’s image abroad? Sending out routine officials as ambassadors…
Month: February 2009
Celebrating Charles Darwin’s bicentenary?
What our schools and universities teach in the sciences? This is the year of Charles Darwin’s 200th year anniversary. February 12, 2009, was Darwin’s 200th birthday. And the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species falls this autumn. There are a spate of articles and even books on Charles Darwin, about his theory and also…
UPA alliance disintegrates?
Sharad Pawar juxtaposes his moves with Congress and also with Shivsena and Samajwadi Party! What really Sonia Gandhi knows about the Congress party position in the States? She depends upon immature and selfish elements as well as undependable allies like the DMK. NCP leader Sharad Pawar held a meeting with Shif Sena working president Uddhav…
US to reduce farm subsidies?
Yes, says the new US President! See, agriculture is not just a job! It is a way of life, a belief system, you know? Yes, we have been running this magazine for years now. What is our experience? We find that agriculture in India is being neglected by all sections of society. The government is…
De facto Prime Minister & Finance Minister!
Incipient power struggle in the Congress Party? Yes, Pranab Mukerjee raises the question in time! The next General elections are near, who would lead the Congress Party’s election campaign? Yes, it will be Sonia Gandhi! Then what is the party’s manifesto? And the Government’s policies on various issues? Indian polity today is beset with a…
Receiving degree from Pandit Nehru at Santiniketan, 1958
All India Congress Committee, 1967
I was a frequent visitor to New Delhi from the year 1961 onwards. At the end of that year or at the beginning of 1962 I landed in Delhi from Oxford through a circuitous route travelling through the then Soviett Russia, via Sweden and Finland and from Moscow to Taskant, then flying over the Hindu…
All India Congress Committee
In 1967 I was called by Atulya Ghosh, the then Treasurer of the Congress Committee to head the General Election Campaign literature writing committee. I was under the guidance of Sadiq Ali,the then General Secretary of the party and T.Manean,another Secretary under Sri Ghosh. My another Oxford friend,Rudolf DeMello was the then Secretary of the…