I read with much sadness about the passing away of Ravi Dayal my friend from Oxford days. I had read the many obituaries and tributes to his memory by some of his friends who had worked with him at the Oxford University Press in India and I learnt much about the many endearing qualities of…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Lakshmi Mittal takeover of the world’s second biggest steel company!
Image of Indians changes, old prejudices die in Europe! French President Jacques Chirac put up a brave face! It was a humiliating climb down for him. French national pride was touched! The “unfriendly” takeover became suddenly “friendly” takeover! The French and Luxembourg governments suddenly had to change course and come round to accept the Indian,…
Wishing V.P.Singh a long life!
Wishing V.P.Singh a long life! V.P.Singh turned 75 and we wish the former Prime Minister a long life. Though much is made of his recent political pronouncements, and New Delhi politics now revolves around certain key personalities like Vajpayee and Sonia Gandhi, V.P.Singh makes his role for the current political scenario relevant by his recent…
What India owes to Britain?
Indians themselves don’t know! This review has to be read in the context of the criticism made about the speech of the Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh when he accepted a Hon degree from Oxford University. Discovering India’s past for the sake of Indians! The Buddha and the Sahibs The men who discovered Indian’s lost religion…
Fuel price rise by a helpless government?
Then, what about the nuclear deal with USA and our own energy security strategy? There is a steep rise in fuel prices. They Congress play a cynical drama by Sonia posing as the savior of the poor, the Left and the BJP does what they know, taking a procession on the Delhi streets! Is this…
Why the 52 Food Parks failed?
Contrast the Food Processing Ministry with others! It is agriculture that doesn’t make news for the right reasons? It is in the news for the wrong reasons! That should explain the failures on the agriculture front. We are saying this with a sense of mission, with a sense of sorrow and with a sense of…
Importing 3 million tonne more wheat!
Sonia Gandhi’s letter to Prime Minister Two years achievement? This massive import? This government seems to have lost steam and might drive the country into an irreversible trend! Sonia Gandhi chose to write to the Prime Minister and places it on record on his moves to enter into a free trade agreement with the Asian…
Musical evolution in South India
Classical music in democratic times! From the Tanjore Court to Madras Music Academy A social history of music in South India By Lakshmi Subramanian, OUP, 2006, pp 196 The rise and fall of classical music? Not necessarily! It is always great to be a connoisseur of classical music, arts. Only a high society that appreciates…