India needs a whole new world view! PM at Havana and the usual anti-American rhetoric won’t make news anymore. After 5 years of 11/11 the world today is a wholly new place! Foreign affairs are first and foremost recognition of the global realities. To adjust constantly the emergent realities! To play the role in war…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
It is time we create A National Co-operative Bank!
To make the co-operative bank network to become more efficient and compete! To attend to the co-operative banks and to accelerate credit to the farm sector. Yes, this was an old proposal but somehow left behind in the current fashions of economic reforms. Even now, see the neglect of agricultural development in the over-all scheme…
How States can become economically advanced?
The new competition among the States is welcome! Intelligent Chief Ministers can make the difference! Economic development is now on everyone’s mind. Only fast economic growth, intelligent use of govt funds, adoption of new technologies, use of human resources, in what is often seen as the merging knowledge economy, we need knowledge workers, to earn…
Driving through the Bengal countryside
Agri sector in Bengal disappointing! Bengal has to go a long way before it can transform the agri sector into a commercially thriving sector for any new agro entrepreneurship. Just to compare Maharashtrian agri sector with that of Bengal is like to compare two different worlds! West Bengal was once the richest State but it…
West Bengal Chief Minister : Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s change of heart
Retreat from Revolutionary Rhetoric! Charting a New Capitalist Path! Yes, there is a new air of great expectancy in Bengal. A new optimism and a new sense of purpose in all walks of life. But this expectancy, this confidence is still in the hearts and minds of some people at the top. May be in…
Vande Mataram came and gone!
Why our leaders made themselves invisible? Sonia Gandhi wrongly advised! I terribly felt let down when on the day India celebrated Vande Mataram’s centenary, our leaders chose to hide themselves from public view! What message we sent out? India needs a robust type of leaders! Yes, when the President of India, the Prime Minister and…
Visiting Santiniketan again
My China connection is long and enduring! China is not an easy country to know and understand! What Narayanamurthy doesn’t tell! Yes, there is the latest news about India-China mutual suspicion persisting. No one tells the whole truth. That is diplomacy and in our national interest, everyone will tell you. That is okay. But what…
Common School System? A pointless debate!
Government-funded vs. private-funded education systems! All have become “exploitative”! Lost their value focus! Every time the education debate comes alive, there is this much-talked about promoting a common school system. The big names are all here: experts like Yash Pal, Krishna Kumar, Anil Sadgopal, social activists like Aruna Roy and others. What they say? Make…