Certain ethical, moral and constitutional questions! The CVC appointment issue doesn’t die down! The CVC issue comes alive once again! The Kerala Chief Minister and his Maharashtra counterpart, V.S.Achuthanandan and Prithviraj Chavan are fighting a proxy battle for the Prime Minister? Serious questions remain unresolved! Democracy evolution at a critical stage Is the Prime Minister…
Category: General
Congress-DMK alliance breaks up?
The DMK has just now passed a resolution withdrawing its ministers in the UPA-II. The provocation is the Congress sticking to its stand of asking for 63 seats in the May Assembly elections. The DMK’s resorting to their known blackmail tactics. The DMK is weak and its minister is in jail and the DMK family…
Why this desperation?
Combating corruption in a democracy Calls for adhering to time-honored conventions and decisive actions! There is much desperation in New Delhi. There is much heat on the Prime Minister. Nor is Sonia Gandhi at ease. We needn’t bore the readers. Everyone seems to be not doing what conventions in the past were followed and not…
Fighting corruption, black money and adhering to truth and honesty!
Prime Minister’ image suffers! Senior ministers must not surrender their self-respect! The 2G spectrum is now a test for national integrity, truth and honesty in public life. It won’t go away easily. This time at least. That is the national mood this time. The appointment of the CVC, the Central Vigilance Commissioner P.J.Thomas has brought…
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…
A Watergate-type crisis emerging?
A mid-term crisis or a mid-term poll syndrome? Ministers don’t perform and more scandals strike! It looked when the UPA-II was formed it was a sort of some improvement over the previous UPA_I. For one thing, some really corrupt ministers from the allies were kept out of the ministry and the DMK, even then created…
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh tied themselves in so many knots!
Indian polity is an unexpected crisis! Parliament adjourns without transacting any business The Congress remains adamant Opposition’s demand for JPC justified? Parliament adjourned after three weeks without functioning. Now, the situation is developing towards a crisis of unpredictable nature. The Supreme Court is almost directing the government on several matters. This is not good at…
Scams and Scandals!
Agriculture and much of development issues It is all about dispensing natural resources! We, in India, in particular have to a stage where many issues have taken critical shapes. Take the very latest scams and scandals. What they about? They are about, in a more sense of gravita, ethics and equity or justice in the…