Finance Minister’s response too seems not pro-active either! FM’s approach to rural regional bank branch expansion must be more comprehensive and more target-focused! There is a severe drought hitting the agricultural sector in a serious manner. The heart-rending stories are difficult to read. There are farmers’ suicides from many states, notably in AP, it is…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Critical infrastructure needs critical policy innovations!
Yes, this is the time of difficult governance and decision-making Considering the world recession, internal challenges, swine flu scare and widespread rought, there is an emerging crisis on a large-scale. There is no use and it doesn’t serve anyone’s purpose to ignore the ground level realities. Critical infrastructure, power, mining, steel, roads, civil aviation, to…
Yes, drought shouldn’t panic us!
But then we need a wide debate, criticism and even dissent What is the role of corporate social responsibility in such a time? So that government is on the alert and in a pro-active mode? This year monsoons are poor, half the country, 246 districts, nearly half the country are drought hit. There has been…
N.R.Narayana Murthy talks of Maybach and Beaujolais wine!
How funny, one wonders! N.R.Narayana Murthy is a great corporate icon! He is much admired and almost held in high esteem, not only by his peers but in the rest of the society. So, he has accumulated lot of fame and also carries the burden of living up to his own earning of this vast…
After reading Prof.M.N.Srinivas
Family values I am just a bit embarrassed by this theme! Why? Just before I typed this page, I saw a new book with the title:”Family values”. By whom? By one Jain muni and Dr.Abdul Kalam! They don’t both have familes! Then, how they can talk genuinely? So too our other greats: Mahatama Gandhi, Nehru…
Nobel Prize Committee can also do foolish things!
It awarded the economics prize in 1997 and now the word pays a high price for it! Foolhardy speculations led to the current economic crisis. The Ascent of Money A financial history of the world by Niall Fergusson, Penguin, 2009, pp441, paperback. The book, the paperback edition has come out only a month ago. The…
The new Planning Commission constituted!
What is new about it? Not much! The same old faces are here again. The newly constituted Commission has once more the same deputy chairman, namely, Montek Singh Ahluwalia. There is again the old list with Ms. Syeda Hameed and Mr. Abhijit Sen from the old panel. The Prime Minister has administered the oath office…
Why the hurry for the Free Trade Agreement with Asean?
Prime Minister’s case seems weak and taken in haste! Kerala Chief Minister raises objection for the right reasons! Yes, trade talks are critical for any country, more so for India. Asean is India’s fourth-largest trading partner after the EU, US and China. Indo-Asean trade is growing at 27 % and stands at 38.37 billion in…