Our Parliament is a great institution but lately, its debates and discussions are much distorted. And there it’s less light and more heat and a great Parliamentary institution must adhere to certain norms and decorum. In the recent Parliamentary debates, there was much heat and saber-rattling between the BJP and the Congress party members, especially…
Category: Politics
So, Bihar is, still the mirror image of India!
In all the realities, politics, economics and all the social realities! Bihar state which had just gone to the Assembly polls preceded by one of the intense election campaigns, of course in the earlier lines of most extensive use of abusive rhetoric. Never before we saw certain desperation on the part of even national leaders…
Democracy and its practice!
From Parliament to the Panchayat Raj institutions! Democracy has a long and hoary history. From Athens to the entire world, for over 2500 years on a tiny hillock, what today we call the ancient Agora, today a neglected part of Athens to the last corners of the world, democracy has resonated and turned mankind into…
US President’s visit to India
Any trade deal with USA should secureIndia’s agri goal of food self sufficiency! As big agricultural economies, be it India, China and the USA, we can’t manage world economy without trade. More so the agricultural trade. So, India has to have a trade negotiation with America whose agricultural economy too needs a trade deal. But…
Democracy’s golden moments!
Sharad Pawar’s finest hour!A leader of unmatched character and why, even moral fibre at a time of such a serious crisis situation! Maharashtra developments, by any reckoning, is a watershed moment in the way the incumbent Central government demonstrated its new governing principles and strategies. The pre-dawn coup and the swift movements of exchanges of…
Dynasty politics wins in a big way in democracy!
An appeal to younger generation of politicians! What are the lessons from the Maharashtra-Haryana by elections?Many lessons! One is the lacklustre show of the BJP party Two: the lacklustre outcome of the campaign. Yes, The Congress and the NCP have gained some lustier in denting the aggressive campaign of the top two stars of the…
Agriculture in times of floods fury, climate change and policy confusion!
The Prime Minister in his Independence Day Speech made many bold and new announcements to lift the economy from the slowdown. These schemes like empowering the farmers with several hopeful positive supports are welcome.Considering the tone and temper of the day and mood with the Jammu and Kashmir developments heavy in the background every Indian…
So, Narendra Modi is here once again for a second term!
What are the lessons of 2019 elections?What are the implications for the second term?So, it is death for the Congress party? The exit polls have been dampening for one section and the NDA might be too much to be ready for their impact on the Indian mind! Yes, the 2019 elections have been a watershed,…