Change Kapil Sibal from education! Create two ministers, for education and the Universities! No one Indian university in the world’s top 100 universities, you know? Yet, no one, let alone the Prime Minister or others mention this disgraceful fact anywhere. Not even in the numerous convocation addresses! Indian character is notorious to talk smooth, indulge…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Anna Hazare must stick to Lokpal!
He or Team Anna must not stray into political issues! Then, they must join a political party or float a separate party! Parliamentary democracy has its own structure and imposes limitations of Agitations or individual action. Civil society is just one more forum for individual freedoms and freedom of expression, right!. Team Anna must display…
Indian Democracy in an unprecedented crisis mode!
New questions and new uncertainties stare at our polity! Our Parliamentary democracy hides too many ethical and moral issues! A series of scams and scandals have impacted democracy and democratic practices into dangerous crisis mode. Not just the scams and scandals alone trigger the many other equally newer questions at the future of Indian democracy….
The Rajat Gupta and Rajarathnam case!
The whole of the corporate and elite world is shocked by the arrest of Rajat Gupta, the high profile McKensy head and his friend Raj Rajaratnam (who is now in jail, for the next 14 years and Rajat Gupta is facing trial for his insider information charges. The point here I want to raise and…
Our Parliamentary Democracy
Challenges to tackling corruption in public life and the corporate world Ignorance or arrogance no more affordable! No one is speaking of the critical issues! No one is also speaking out! Our Parliamentary democracy is changing. Our Parliament is no more seen as supreme. Though it is now asserted that our Constitution is supreme, we…
Make Pranab Mukerjee The Deputy Prime Minister!
We haven’t commented on the Finance Minister for long! Let us make him the Deputy Prime Minister at once! Don’t burden him with the routine finance minister’s job! He can serve the nation much better with his vast experience in the government! He can be a real asset for better governance today! The time has…
Anna Hazare’s movement a turning point
Is Parliament Supreme? A new awakening in Indian democratic evolution! It is a victory for the people of India! A historic victory, a historic moment too! Anna Hazare, soon after Parliament in an unusual sign of unanimity and even magnanimity passed a united resolution to uphold the demands of the people’s movement to pass the…
NGOs: what they do?
What the government can’t do, the NGOs do, more often! Can they transform society? Save rural India? NGOs, the non-government organisations are aplenty in India. They have lately gained much clout after Sonia Gandhi started her National Advisory Council (NAC, with some of the high profile members drawn from various fields. Of course, every member…