Jan
31
A performing government?
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There is a huge credibility gap for the government Manmohan Singh government is now in an unsustainable dilemma The government is there now for quite a time and it hasn’t started any of its promises into real action. No programme had captured the imagination of the people so far. The poor, the farmers, the minorities [...]
Jan
31
How to understand China?
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Life after the Nobel Prize Or, an afternoon at Santiniketan! Why this title! The other day I was speaking to my long-time friend in Santiniketan. What can you do when you are caught up in a remote village where you don’t have Internet Broadband connectivity. Accustomed to live in hightech Bangalore where latest technological gadgets [...]
Jan
31
One of the Oxford’s enduring institutions is the Oxford Union. It had produced leaders who went on to build an Empire, fight the World Wars, establish international standards in all walks of life. Here is how I was able to fulfill my life’s ambition of participating in this august body. I a way, I imagined [...]