May
30
We need a bold new vision!
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Agriculture is an economic and political power! There is now a new sense of urgency to do something in the agricultural sector. That is a welcome development. But do the public also know why this sense of urgency? The most obvious explanation is the current mood of despondency of the ruling UPA, more so the [...]
May
30
Who says rural India is poor?
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Only 6 MPs attend Lok Sabha debate on poverty! MPs absent themselves often! Only six members were present, to start with, in the Lok Sabha, which was to discuss the issue of eradication of hunger in the country. The attendance was less than one per cent. The current strength of the House is 540. Jairam [...]
May
28
Paul Johnson, the little Englander?
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Book Review: Paul Johnson Creators -from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Victor Hugo to Picasso and Disney Harper Collins,2006,pp300 The English people of today seem to be caught in an identity crisis of their own.Lost their empire and with that has gone their assumed plumes of hauteur and bluster.The English,more than the ordinary Brits,the so-called establishment [...]