Ramesh rhetoric cools! Environment ministry changing its direction? Development realities hit hard environment concerns? Posco, the South Korean steel giant gets clearance for its 12 billion dollar investments in steel and port projects in Orissa. This is the biggest FDI in India and waited for 6 long years of gestation before the ministry was forced,…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Democracy is what? Democracy is for whom?
Democracy is for the people, the masses? Yes, it is for their freedoms! What chance is there for the freedoms of the people to reach them? What are the stumbling blocks for the freedoms to reach them? For them to realise the freedoms? Or the benefits of their freedoms to reach them? We seem to…
Kapil Sibal is a disaster!
What is happening in education? Or for that matter in his new assignment, telecom? We need a healthy debate in education! Why, even on sports, culture and media etc.! There is a hell of a noise and much on the coming cricket cup series and already much money and much hype are made of the…
Cognitive dissonence of our times?
This denial of what is reality, what is the tursh? This is an intellectual journal, you should realise! So, we have to ask hard questions, use words that are new and also critical for our cognition and much intellectual self-doubt and also much searching for new issues and the answers that issues might call for….
Kapil Sibal : A Neoliberal, a Market Fundamentalist?
Why he alone? May be, all his colleagues and the boss are just this? See their Bhopal gas tragedy deals? They are, to quote one senior editor and journalist, M.J.Akbar, with slight variation of the words and phrases, the protegees of the Prime Minister and the MNCs. Ranking leaders of the World Bank Alumni Association…
British aristocrats symbolised patriotism!
French faced the Bastille! What about India? Indian aristocrats a bunch of cowards? Now, a bunch of self-seekers? Aristocracy is all about more than money and breeding! You must fight for the country and the values! Who are all the aristocrats? Who can become the aristocrats? Rich men are no aristocrats; they are jeered at…
Bankers let down our farmers?
Why Microfinance is now a bad word? Finance ministry must introduce a regulator for the agricredit monitoring Yes, microfinance companies have now come under a cloud. Andhra Pradesh government brought out an ordinance in 2010 end and asked the RBI to probe the scandals that have come out now in the open. There have been…
Barack Obama talks of education, often!
In India no one talks of education! Why? Our leaders engaged in other activities? See what is the state of India as a country and people? In the UK the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister both talk of education! For the Liberal Democrats education is an article of a creed, a faith! Of course,…