Manmohan Singh : Nominated PM in Parliamentary Democracy »

A cowardly world we are creating?
The new dictators might be terrorists or the nuclear adventurers?
Time to  look at our democratic pretensions very critically!
The world thought that after 1989,the world  would turn on to a new civilisation. The “end of history” and the dawn of a liberal democracy, the world believed with confidence.
Now, we see the [...]

Jyoti Basu and Left legacy in West Bengal »

Whenever a high personality, a very senior ideological patriach like Jyoti Basu, 95, passes away, it is natural we tend to become emotional and sentimental.
Jyoti Basu is a man from another age, as seen now in the context of current West Bengal politics and the sort of hotch-potch politics that rules in the name of [...]

Republic Day Speeches »

Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh call for best and brightest people to politics
What is really happening today?
Who should make the first moves, so to say?
Our Republic is not reflecting the socio-economic visions yet.
Crisis of faith and legitimacy
Governance is not just a mediating role of the rule of law
Governance is a moral legitimacy?
Do you or have [...]

India must create Asian Democratic Union »

The new Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama is seen as diplomatically active.  In India he spoke his mind, he urged India to comply with CTBT terms, stop nuclear proliferation and engage in nuclear disarmament and promote peace.  India was polite and only diplomatic.  India displayed lack of a positive vision.  American economic decline might [...]

India’s approach »

To Pakistan, China and Sri Lanka must have new perspectives!
There is a widespread feeling in India about how things are going in politics and economics.
Even in economics, things are not going in the right course.

The government under Dr.Singh, in the phase UPA-II, is somewhat confused as far as its approach to many key issues.
In reviving [...]

Indira Gandhi Raj and after »

After 25 years what we see?
Degeneration of polity, a non-functioning democracy?
Or a very alive and kicking oligarchy of moneyed class everywhere?

I write this on the 25th death anniversary of India Gandhi’s death. It was a gruesome death and the anniversary truly brings out the various reflections and comments on the person and her achievements and [...]

What is National Calamity Fund? »

Can someone explain to the country?
Karnataka flood havoc, once in hundred years disaster!
Why the Centre and the Congress party shows such lethargy? Such take it or leave it attitude?
A flying visit by Air Force plane and then a late announcement!
The Congress party President visited Andhra Pradesh and she didn’t visit Karnataka, is the refrain!
And pray, [...]

Indian democracy is turning into oligarchy? »

How the Sonia-Singh dispensation has brought about a corrupt political class nexus with corporate power.
P.Sainath in The Hindu says how the top two CEOs helped to save the Singh government survive the trust vote in 2008!
What values drive our national vision? Anyone spelt out?
Reflections on European political parties and elections
There are clear political ideologies!
Here [...]

What is happening in India? »

Economic reforms, economic recovery or any sense of economic growth?
In international arena?
In foreign policy we have to move away or move forward from Sharm-el-Sheikh and Nuclear deal to other more pressing issues like wars, oil, energy, climate change and UN reforms and much more issues of the day.
India has a place in the sun?
Manmohan Singh [...]

The “Delhi Game”? That is what AP politics is all about? »

Yes, that is how the new political forces centering around Mr.Jaganmohan Reddy are talking about in Hyderabad. This is just a warning signal to things to come in AP. Hopefully it is not a pattern that could engulf the Congress in Delhi.
The point is that any great mind or a great leader or a great [...]