What chances for the employment guarantee and such populist schemes to succeed? New Delhi environment is lately very tentative. Though the Congress-led coalition government is in office for 20 months, the focus and direction of the government is not purposeful. Instead of any cohesion, there is a weakening of the collective will of the government….
Category: General
Our democracy’s success story
Some unasked and unanswered questions! India should get prepared for new roles in this century! Not look to the UK or USA for guidance. So, India has to maintain its friendly relations and talk things out and solve some of the outstanding problems with China, Pakistan and neighbours. The 58th Independence day came and gone….
India needs a new liberalist creed
Decline in Values? Compromise with Evil? Yes, everyday we find that our society, polity and even much of our education and culture are faced with so much of compromises with values. What we hold as dear to our sense of truth and morality. Yet we have learnt to, live with life as it goes on!…
National traits, attitudes and character
A series of scandals ! Yet Indians deny themselves all truths! What about the special Indian traits? Our attitudes? Our character? Why we don’t talk so much about our Indian weakness for double talk and double standards? Each nation and culture has its own special traits, attitudes and character. US President George Bush talks and…
Migrant Bihari labour in Assam!
Ethnic issues and uncertainity of the future. That Indian development is uneven, is recognised but no one speaks out. That is the tragedy of our leadership. The Congress party was in power for long and it is the party that brought about centrally-sponsored development planning and yet in its long years of power, it has…
Moily’s Utopia? Or, a set of impossible recommendations?
Mr.Veerappa Moily, the former Chief Minister of Karnataka and now a senior Congress leader and trouble shooter for the PM and Sonia Gandhi(he is in charge of the Tamil Nadu Congress affairs) has headed a second administrative reforms panel and now submitted its proposals to the government. From what we have seen from newspaper reports…
Punjab and Gujarat
Rich states, rich politicians! Poor track records, negative images! The NDTV show on the Punjab farmer’s suicides came as a rude shock! The heart-breaking scenes, the tears and misery of the women who lost their husbands were too much to bear viewing for long. Yet, the feature did a great national service for highlighting what…
And now, Russia!
How many Indians know of Russian society and politics as it has become lately? Russia evokes a confused image today. For most Indians of this generation the present Russian society and politics might not mean much. The image of Russia we have is one of the recent past that is the Soviet Russia of the…