High Inflation comes to haunt the Government! Coalition politics to populist policies lead to inefficient economic management? To borrow a historic phrase from Karl Marx, “the spectre “of inflation is assuming serious dimensions! There is an intriguing silence at the top. Everyone is clearly worried and we assume there is desperate action, though behind the…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Moily’s Utopia? Or, a set of impossible recommendations?
Mr.Veerappa Moily, the former Chief Minister of Karnataka and now a senior Congress leader and trouble shooter for the PM and Sonia Gandhi(he is in charge of the Tamil Nadu Congress affairs) has headed a second administrative reforms panel and now submitted its proposals to the government. From what we have seen from newspaper reports…
Punjab and Gujarat
Rich states, rich politicians! Poor track records, negative images! The NDTV show on the Punjab farmer’s suicides came as a rude shock! The heart-breaking scenes, the tears and misery of the women who lost their husbands were too much to bear viewing for long. Yet, the feature did a great national service for highlighting what…
And now, Russia!
How many Indians know of Russian society and politics as it has become lately? Russia evokes a confused image today. For most Indians of this generation the present Russian society and politics might not mean much. The image of Russia we have is one of the recent past that is the Soviet Russia of the…
India’s agriculture’s future
May be the market forces might dictate the new agri policy!There are so many reasons to worry about the Indian agri crisis.This sector fails to respond to the many pious hopes(yes,there is no visible active agri policy as such as of now) and there is a steady decline in all major crops.The outcome?An all-time high…
Understanding China
China: Still an unknown quantity?China always evokes some uneasiness.Not just for its neightbours but also for even distant powers like the USA.Why?First,it is the only Communist state in the world.Its economic might is growing fast.Its foreign echange reserves,at one trillion,the lrgest in the world.Its fast economic growth,ranked the fourth largest economy in the world,predicted to…
Emerging India faces challenges and opportunities too!
Understanding economic issues calls fora knowledge of our economic history ,certain analytical skills and a bold articulation of certain vision!Indian economists have all become stereotypes! Timid,withdrawing,self-effacing, till yesterday all leftists and Marxists.Today all liberals and economic reformers! Manmohan Singh’s government,after the mid-term in office,seems to be facing many unsure goals!Indo-nuclear deal’s future seems uncertain.After Bush…
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s troubles far from over!
Farmers are agitating over their farm lands being taken over by big companies.With the active or passive collusion of the state governments. India is set to see radical changes in its rural landscape.The new national highways are all already changing the contours of the countryside.Even in Bengal where the current agitations against takeover of the…