Indian democracy reaches for a new paradigm shift? »
Unprincipled opportunists, all?
Opportunistic Communists to prop up Mayawati as the next Prime Ministerial candidate!
Yes, it looks like an open season for the unprincipled politicians of India. Even the veterans, the former Prime Minister and the CPI veterans are forgetting that history won’t forgive and forget!
They are expected to show the right path, the right means, [...]
Arjun Singh doesn’t have a clue to how to reform the higher education system! »
Mr.Arjun Singh, the HRD minister, in his position for the second time. A two-term HRD minister must be seen as a man with a vision and a mission.
The minister doesn’t display both these assets.
All we can hope to remember about the minister is his penchant for playing his card as a pro-Marxist minister. That is [...]
Indo-US nuclear deal would make India a stronger economic power! »
Jyoti Basu’s stance is unpardonable!
Jyoti Basu must put India’s supreme interests above party line!
Even to be seen as Mr.Somnath Chatterjee is seen with a stoic silence after his return and consultation with Jyoti Basu, even for a day or two, seems to us, as unjustifiable. Thank god, the Speaker had seen wisdom not to succumb [...]
Ashis Nandy’s provocative views and the Supreme Court intervention! »
Much of Nandy’s language is fine but the insights are not wisdom enough!
Prof.Ashis Nandy is a high profile academic. He is variously described as psycho-analyst and political psychologist. I don’t really know much to make any distinction between the two disciplines. With this confession, let me say what he has done to clarify what he [...]
The Congress makes moves for signing the nuclear deal! »
Left Adventurism: time to call the bluff!
The Left has really become a pain in the neck. The time has come to call its bluff. It is blackmailing the UPA government almost from day one. It imagines it has the key to unlock the world. Or, to the world’s wisdom!
Such is its self-imagined arrogance that it [...]
Manmohan Singh’s tenure will end when? »
Congress party must become more democratic.
If you live in Delhi, perhaps, you might become immune to any new winds of change. May be you would be a government servant or a politician, even a minister or an MP, from outside Delhi from one of the states. Or, otherwise, you might be one of those small-time [...]
West Bengal panchayat elections: violence and losses! »
The great humbug of democratic power devolution!
The rural poor continue to be neglected!
Luckily, the West Bengal’s long-time claims of fame for its ideological purity stands exposed. The Left managed to brainwash a whole generation or two about its real intentions.
It has never been a patriotic front. The CPI was better. The CPI (M) became the [...]
Jaswant Singh’s secularism has disheartened me! »
Not long ago on a visit to Delhi, I chanced upon Jaswant Singh, the former foreign minister under Vajpayee at the India International Centre, on the Lodi Road. It was nice to see a very urbane and erudite man, I thought. I had read his books, the latest being his deeply moving autobiography and I [...]
Asian nations and India »
India must have its own well-defined foreign policy!
India must have its own well-defined self-perception!
China will always be our troublesome neighbour and big brother
Mr.Pranab Mukerjee, our foreign minister made a recent visit to China. What did he do there and what did he achieve?
Not much. There are criticisms in the press that he went almost [...]
India’s future vision »
Sonia Gandhi has considerably lowered the image of India
Manmohan Singh collaborated in this fall of India’s image and democratic credentials
I think it was some time in the year 1965.
I was then very much active in politics and I used to be in New Delhi off and on.
I used to be associated with Atulya Ghosh and [...]