PMO bereft of work or lack of focus? »

There are an exodus faces and talents from the PMO!
What is really happening? Where will this cowardly new situation take us?

The PMO is an exalted office where the country’s “chief executive” operates. The Prime Minister in a Parliamentary Democracy occupies a very unique and aura-driven position. Whatever little or not so little event or activity [...]

A weak Prime Minister, a weak Foreign Minister »

A retired foreign secretary, an over-ambitious Home Minister
Foreign Security and internal security
Are things clear in New Delhi?
There seems to be some disarray in the Central government functioning. Already Sharad Pawar, the agri minister has been adding fuel to the rising food prices. After sugar prices, the food minister has indicated that milk prices would go [...]

Japanese Prime Minister’s visit to India »

India should take it as a departure for a new policy for Asia
Kuldip Nayar, the veteran journalist and a thoughtful Indian of some stature has written a New Year eve column in a newspaper. It is all about the current scene in South Asia, more so in India and Pakistan and  by extension what is [...]

Barack Obama’s address to the joint session of the US Congress »

What lessons for India?
India’s democracy?
US democracy is vibrant and politics there is truly democratic!  Here, we have, yes, democracy. But our Chief Executive is who? Prime Minister or the Party President?
Yes, India must become a strong democracy. India must become a great democracy.
In the USA we see this happening. See the latest joint session of [...]

Amartya Sen’s wisdom »

How does it benefit India?

Amartya Sen is the much admired Indian intellectual today. His latest book, The Idea of Justice, is just now released.
He was in India and gave several interviews and talks promoting his book.
We have already posted our review on our weblog (www.isvarmurti.com) and twitter/isvarmurti). Here we publish the same for our readers [...]

N.R.Narayana Murthy talks of Maybach and Beaujolais wine! »

How funny, one wonders!
N.R.Narayana Murthy is a great corporate icon! He is much admired and almost held in high esteem, not only by his peers but in the rest of the society. So, he has accumulated lot of fame and also carries the burden of living up to his own earning of this vast goodwill [...]

Yeddyurappa can earn enduring fame! »

Yeddyurappa must think big and bold!
He must drop any partisan agenda!
Give co-operative institution full autonomy!
No interference, please!
Karnataka Milk Federation elections raise issues
Co-operatives institutions must enjoy great autonomy
Yeddyurappa must ensure great care and observe norms in good governance
Yeddyurappa is doing well, in fact very well. We can’t attest to this observation.
The first BJP government in Karnataka [...]

HDFC chairman »

Deepak Parekh must be made the Planning commission chairman!
Narayanamurthy or Nandan Nilekani must reform the electoral system!
Yes, the Manmohan Singh team is in place. That doesn’t mean that everything with the economy or the polity will go smooth.
Already we see the consonance and the dissonance!
The Presidential address to Parliament was full of the Women’ [...]

New Manmohan team will have a purposeful sail? »

The euphoria dips fast!
Small minds and small considerations seem to create problems?
Yes, not even the ink dried as they say. Within the first days of Parliamentary session, we saw the lineup of issues and the minds.
The BJP raked up the defence deals and the middle men with a link at the PMO.Though the PMO promptly [...]

Reading Stanley Wolpert’s Gandhi »

Both insightful and also depressing!
Stanley Wolpert is a distinguished professor and scholar and had written some of the more in-depth books on Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
All these three figures have shaped the destinies of the Indian subcontinent. So, wolpert’s three books have become classics and anyone interested in India must be [...]