Surely, US President has to seek an international consensus! That only can save his legacy as a Peace President! India’s voice must be more positive and assertive! This sort of weak responses, often too late in the day, doesnt helps enhance India’s foreign policy legacy and our own sense of worth and meaning in an…
Category: People
Obama’s silences intriguing!
Not good for the world! Not good for him either! Are we all living in a surveillance-ridden world? Inside India too, there are worrisome trends! That could trip India into unexpected territories! US President Barack Obama is now in the mid-term of his second term! Increasingly, he seems to be more silent that he used…
Rare audience with Pope Benedict XVI!
What a surprise and miracle! Soon after this rare event comes the pope’s voluntary retirement! First time in 600 years of such a unique history such a thing happened! The Pope we saw and got his blessings, within a month went on to announce his resignation! Yes, the year 2013 held out so many unexpected…
Thoughts on the occasion of Barack Obama’s second inauguration address!
We are talking of only of the next elections! Not anything of any big deal growth agenda? See Barack Obama’s second inaugural speech. Obama has outlined a vision. A vision for all-round growth, universal healthcare, big spending and also promoting global stability and global peace. Fighting climate change challenge etc. We are basically a talking…
Dr.Verghese Kurien passes away!
What new to be said about him? Dr.Verghese Kurien, the public face of India’s milk revolution, is no more. He had left his imprint on the lives and fortunes of every Indian village, every rural household in a very significant manner that Indian villages, Indian rural landscape won’t be any more poverty stricken, thanks his…
Once an admired Prime Minister!
Now, a lonely figure of pity and much sympathy? Who thinks of India? Who thinks for India? What is the big picture for India? Indian democratic system in crisis? Big bang economic reforms made news. This was for a brief time. In just 2 years! From 2010 to 2012, what a fall! Then he was…
News in pictures/magazines
India, America and China Democracy is expanding in the world! Freedom is also expanding in the world? Yes, seems to be the current mood we find in large parts of the world. Even in the former Communist, Soviet Russian states, we find there are elections and also of course, internal tensions and even violence. The…
Two Nobel Laureates: One American and one Bengali!
Prof.Joseph Stieglitz speaks about Mamata Government’s land policy Prof.Amartya Sen keeps mum for far too long! Prof.Sen has a duty to West Bengal! When the state is burning, almost! Prof.Amartya Sen is typically a Bengali bhadralok, that is, he is well-educated and a Nobel Laureate at that and as such he had brought to much…