His Excellency A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, Rashtrapathi Bhavan, New Delhi Dear Your Excellency, Subject: Promoting Indian talent, recognising great individuals I take this opportunity of writing to you, once again, on a subject that has been agitating my mind for long and I am sure that would be equally agitating some of our fellow countrymen and women….
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Politics is pragmatism, at best
Economics is not everything, of course! New Chief Ministers, new mindsets? Yes, there is still a long way to go to ensure fast economic growth and reach critical human development indices. There is still a visible urban bias and a rural neglect. There now new Chief Ministers, after the new elections and of course are…
Mrs Reena Ganguly
Mrs Reena Ganguly (right) seen with her daughter Kushi at Santinikathan. Reena was my classmate during all my four years at Santinikethan. She is an eminent researcher in Chinese topics. She has retired from Cheena Bhavan after a distinguished career in teaching and research. She now lives at Santiniketan.
After the PM’s Vidarbha package fiasco.
At least do something more constructive this time! Jairam Ramesh package on raw materials ban, co-operative institutions look promising! Minister of State Jairam Ramesh’s idea of ban on raw materials exports, be it agri raw materials, or marine exports or mineral ore exports is welcome. Except the initiative comes from a lightweight minister and we…
Inflation rate hits rooftop!
Government resorts to desperate steps! Inflation rate hits a two year high of 6.73%.It was just less than half this rate last year this time. Inflation can be a good thing, if it is at a moderate rate. Inflation keeps prices on the upswing and that is a lot of incentive for a lot of…
Gap widening from Delhi to the grassroots!
There was this delightful column: Lunch with FT! The fun-like but more insightful column in the famed London Financial Times weekend review. This time it was with one 25-year old heir apparent of the famous Italy’s Fiat Empire! An interview with the heir of the biggest industry conglomerate! What he said? The dashing youngman, very…
CPM’s dilemma in West Bengal!
Its past sins visit its present predicaments? Now, Mr.Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tells, as he did to the NDTV, that there is a generational change, village youths don’t want to engage in agriculture and they want non-agri jobs. That can be created, as the CM said only through rapid industrialisation. Now, Rs.25,000 crore worth of investments are…
C.K.Prahalad breaks new ground in agri reforms!
Policy is not working! Logistics could break the impasse in agriculture! Who believes the Central government when it says it can reform agriculture? Agri reforms is much tougher, it seems, than we imagined, to be a much more a high priority of the economic reforms. Even in economic reforms we don’t see any unity of…