The Hindu carried out a survey about the youth aspirations and where they are moving forward. It gave new insights and new thoughts. Here are some of the basic findings. First, the urban/rural information divides. Newspaper reading habits had grown up dramatically. 55% read newspapers and this 74% for the urban readers. On the other…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Bringing back fresh thoughts from Bengal!
Heroes of yesterday and today! My visit to Bengal this time came after a very long gap. So, what I learnt this time while I spent a few days in Calcutta city and also when I paid a visit to Santiniketan, after a day out, driving through the Bengal countryside, what I read afresh from…
Magsaysay awards, Bharat Ratnas and the civil society movement
Just now we read that one Indian, that too a civil servant, Arvind Kejriwal, had been awarded the prestigious Magsaysay award for community leadership, for fighting for the Right to Information Act. To fight corruption in India is not a joke anymore, as everyday we witness the growth of corruption. Not a day passes in…
Is the BJP articulating its policies better this time?
The publication of Mr.Jaswant Singh’s book, A Call to Honor, had justly created a storm. Apart from the more sensational disclosures about the existence of a mole or a spy in the PMO of Narasimha Rao and the circumstances that led to the IC-814 hijack to Khandahar, the other details about the Pokhran-II, Kargil, 9/11,…
Zest for Living
Thoughts on class structure, material wealth and cultural attainments. Creative ideas, creative energy that keeps my enthusiasms alive! As soon as I finished typing this essay I went out and put on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by Herbert Von Karajan. What an impact it made on me, on my mood! There was this sudden reaction and…
Bombay blasts more serious than price rise!
Ministers’ competencies come for criticism! The Bombay blasts had devastated the nation.200 dead, 700 injured in a few minutes in several places! This is too much. But distressed the country much more is the sort of response and the sort of immediate explanations from the Government. Tavleen Singh, the veteran columnist, writing from her Bombay…
Cauvery Waters Tribunal ends its work in confusion
Kerala seeks control over five dams! Supreme Court directs the raising of the height of Narmada Dam! Yes, the inter-state waters disputes are no more news. They make news whenever the state politicians have no other purposeful jobs on hand! So, comes the news of persisting inter-state rivers disputes, from one state or other. Now,…
Foreign Direct Investment in Agriculture
Economic nationalism in industry and agriculture The India-born Lakshmi Mittal’s takeover of the Europe’s biggest stall maker, Arcelor, now Arcelor-Mittal Steel, made lots of headlines for months. The major European governments, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, the Presidents and Prime Ministers of these countries raised a hue and cry over their own nationalistic industry (they held…