Need for speedy action for the short and long term challenges. Sugar is now an international commodity and therefore the Indian domestic crisis has many dimensions. Starting from UP where we saw farmer’s agitations and even violence and direct action against some reputed mills, the crisis has now spread far and wide. Chief Ministers of…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Appoint an interim Prime Minister!
After the 2014 election results a likely coalition Prime Ministers can be either Nitish Kumar or Naveen Patnaik! Letter to Sonia Gandhi Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, President, The Congress Party, 10, Janpath, New Delhi Announce a Kamaraj Plan Let key ministers resign and go on a mass contact programme, undertake padayatras etc! Dear Mrs. Sonia Gandhi….
What do we know of China?
What do we know of Russia either? We in India seem to know much about the West, about UK and Europe and the USA. But we don’t seem to know, or don’t care to know about other big nations? I am sure we know pretty little about what life is like inside China. Much more…
How to understand our times?
How we can impact on our times? Indians must stand up and learn to speak for themselves as free citizens. The many hang-ups, the legacy of the British colonial low-confidence mindset and also the new political bosses who don’t practise any known Constitutionally-mandated norms of public behaviour have sapped the energies of the common man…
Prime Minister, Parliament and the Constitution
Prime Minister is the supreme political authority under the Constitution. Unfortunately, things are turned upside down! What a surprise! I was to write on the Prime Minister’s current difficulties over the Coalgate scam and the way he is almost hounded by the media and the Opposition parties and a variety of vested interests. Poor man!…
Right to food security?
It is possible because our agriculture is modernised by industrial strength and economic growth! Food bill is not election rhetoric? The Central government legislation, Right to Food Security Act is a welcome development as other welfare schemes. In the present context, there are so many state-level welfare schemes, so many, almost covering every aspect of…
Eluding justice to the common citizens?
Lalu Prasad Yadav in jail The pending cases are pending for political reasons? Special courts to try political corruption must function on day- to-day basis! How many courts and how long years wait for trying political, economic offences? We are a democracy and other countries like Russia and China are not so openly democracies. But…
Narendra Modi : will he make it in the 2014 elections?
Rahul Gandhi’s chances any better? The 2014 general elections in India has generated much heat and many expectations. Expectations that this is the first time that the BJP is pitching for a high stake claim by projecting Narendra Modi, the Gujarat Chief Minister for the powerful office of India’s Prime Minister. India is no more…