Why does one go for a secret new agribusiness pact with the USA? Why the secrecy, why this below radar deal? A five column news report appears in the national daily on such captioned title. The government only last week, that is, just a week before the presentation of the budget “quietly secured a Cabinet…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
PMO bereft of work or lack of focus?
There are an exodus faces and talents from the PMO! What is really happening? Where will this cowardly new situation take us? The PMO is an exalted office where the country’s “chief executive” operates. The Prime Minister in a Parliamentary Democracy occupies a very unique and aura-driven position. Whatever little or not so little event…
Manmohan Singh : Nominated PM in Parliamentary Democracy
A cowardly world we are creating? The new dictators might be terrorists or the nuclear adventurers? Time to look at our democratic pretensions very critically! The world thought that after 1989,the world would turn on to a new civilization. The “end of history” and the dawn of a liberal democracy, the world believed with confidence….
Agriculture is not all about crops!
It is also about people, issues and new strategies! Yes, the very country’s varied demands are all part of the total growth, not just agriculture or industry. The latest interest in climate change is one such latest development. Climate change control concerns everybody and farmers and farming sector needs much sensitisation and sensitivity. Natural forces…
Republic Day Speeches
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh call for best and brightest people to politics What is really happening today? Who should make the first moves, so to say? Our Republic is not reflecting the socio-economic visions yet. Crisis of faith and legitimacy Governance is not just a mediating role of the rule of law Governance is…
2010-a year that can look back the decade!
The world is a better place to live! In spite of the new challenges! There is plenty of optimism for the world! A series of breath-taking technological revolutions and new tools Our life becomes more easy and more productive. Wealth creation is becoming more equally based and widespread. Computers came, now it seems, a very…
The world is now a better educated place
Thanks to technological revolutions and tools Every country has its own education traditions and cultures Dominant cultures dominate! Education in the New Year? What Indian education is like? Have we made progress in the education front? Yes, India has made a lot of progress in education. The New Year must give us some new ideas…
Reliving the 1989 years of Europe!
Just now, I have come back from a visit to Cochin in Kerala where I visited the famous Jewish Synagogue. Cochin Synagogue? Heard of it? It is a heart warming and even at times when you read the pictures on the walls displayed for visitors, heart-rending experience. I have been there more than once, once…