Thailand, Cambodia and Egypt and Russia Nexus of power in a country and society decides the sort of political system that prevails there! Is India a full-fledged democracy? Some hard questions of our times! Indian democracy is the largest and the most populous.1.21 billion people. A democracy has survived and even we can say (why…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Indian media at the cross roads
Is the Indian media mature or immature? See their reaction to Kejriwal’s gimmicks and Rahul Gandhi’s latest interview Rahul Gandhi gave an interview to the high profile Times Now channel, widely broadcast and widely viewed on 27th January 2014. Conducted by the garrulous anchor Arnab Goswami. It was billed as the big interview of the…
We seem to be living through an uncertain time?
Where are our sense of freedoms? Security? A hopeful world? All these questions arise, mainly owing to the leadership vacuum at the present time of the world? The USA is led by a very capable leader in Barack Obama. But he seems to be giving a feeble signal to the rest of the world. We…
Education of the people, the aam aadmi!
Education of public opinion! Aam Aadmi Party: before and after the Delhi Dharna! An appeal to the Indian middle classes and the Indian youth! Is this the Indian democracy you wanted? To fight corruption and usher in good governance? This is not a political journal. This is an education journal. As such we have to…
President’s appeal to MPs to behave responsibly in Parliament!
The President must send a strong message on the dangers ahead, if things go like this! Just words won’t do. Decorous words! More ineffective! But then, we have to move ahead and use some plain words. The present day MPs come from a very much changed social strata. Why, the very same leaders of many…
Cambodia : It’s great past,troubled present!
Indian democracy must inspire South East Asian countries! Is India doing enough? Are we waking up to our Asian fraternity? Inside India, we have our own problems, yes. But outside India, the world looks at us as a great democracy.Are we,Indians doing enough to realise our own past contributions to the rise of Asia in…
How to live with the USA?
It is time Indians must wake up to certain realities! India can’t remain a mute witness to the reality of sending cheap labour to the American market! Some three million Indians live in the USA. Some, one lakh Indian students study there! These are the latest data. Yet, India seems to have difficulties to understand…
How much Indians are attached to their own individual freedoms?
Why such a question now? There are a few books that have come out in England about the British nostalgia for their bygone days. They, the Brits, now realise that their own imperial glory had gone, their country has sunk into a small island, its economy battered and there is no growth and also not…