This middle class obsession must be moderated! Education is all about finding out about own personality and developing the same! Let the government introduce a one year of national social service! A gap year before students enter college would make a great deal of change in the Indian education. Indian education has done much good…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Reading Stanley Wolpert’s Gandhi
Both insightful and also depressing! Stanley Wolpert is a distinguished professor and scholar and had written some of the more in-depth books on Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah. All these three figures have shaped the destinies of the Indian subcontinent. So, wolpert’s three books have become classics and anyone interested in India…
Youth power wins this election? Who are this youth?
TV channels overdid their jobs! They played up the youth victory theme rather too far and too unbalanced way! Who are these youths are? They are neither from the poor or the middle classes. They are from the privileged families. Let us see what this means for the emergence and the evolution of democracy in…
Indian election results
What it points to? The ideological perspective and the media perspective The 2009 Lok Sabha elections have certainly given a sweep of sorts. There is an all India perspective to the outcome of the elections. There is a vote for a strong and a stable India. Also, there is a vote for a secular India….
Is it caste or development, the vote-winner?
Development agenda doesn’t win voters! Not yet! The 2009 Lok Sabha elections make a definite paradigm shift. There is a new emphasis on development and government performance. The Congress harps on its performance and cites the Bharat Nirman and rural employment guarantee schemes as the two flagship development schemes and appeals for the aam aadmi…
What is our vision for rural India?
Rural governance is not more of the same, right? Election results is not just vote banks changing sides. We must see election outcome in some deeper perspective. It is time for some soul searching and introspection. More so when we consider some fundamentals that remain unchanged in the rural environment. A range of reforms, panchayat…
A beaten and weakened Pawar back in Krishi Bhavan!
What new he would do in agriculture? Sharad Pawar is back in Krishi Bhavan. This is not the old Pawar. This is a new Pawar. The old Pawar was the most swaggering and more ambitious leader who thought his eye on the Delhi throne was very much within his sight. Alas! Politics is a cruel…
A positive vote for a confident India!
What the election results mean to the Congress? To the BJP and other big parties? Any general election is a major political event. The 2009 Lok Sabha elections and the results are no different. That is no different from the past trends. May be in the last two decades we saw the unstable coalitions and…