Is Parliament Supreme? A new awakening in Indian democratic evolution! It is a victory for the people of India! A historic victory, a historic moment too! Anna Hazare, soon after Parliament in an unusual sign of unanimity and even magnanimity passed a united resolution to uphold the demands of the people’s movement to pass the…
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NGOs: what they do?
What the government can’t do, the NGOs do, more often! Can they transform society? Save rural India? NGOs, the non-government organisations are aplenty in India. They have lately gained much clout after Sonia Gandhi started her National Advisory Council (NAC, with some of the high profile members drawn from various fields. Of course, every member…
Ratan Tata appears before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament!
Lessons for the corporate world and the government Ratan Tata, the iconic chairman of the Tata group of companies has recently come for some adverse attention. It is a great pity that Tatas whose name symbolizes the very prestige of the Indian economic strength and in a way, give s a sense of pride and…
Prof.Amartya Sen makes equivocal comparison of India and China
He must help make Indian public opinion in a morally upright and forthright manner! Prof.Amartya Sen is a great thinker. As he often calls (consciously or unconsciously?)he is a great argumentative Indian! Now, in his latest article (The Hindu 14th February 2011) he writes on “Growth and other concerns”. The gist of the article is…
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…
Beware of foreign writers and foreign journalists writing on India
Or more dangerously on Hinduism! I hesitate to write on Hinduism! Hindutva is one reason! Foreign writers, foreign journalists another hindrance! There was this news item in the newspapers recently. A new book has been published in New Delhi and that has this shocking title: Hindutva, Sex and Adventure. Why such a title? The author…
Jyoti Basu and the Left legacy in West Bengal
Whenever a high personality, a very senior ideological patriach like Jyoti Basu, 95, passes away, it is natural we tend to become emotional and sentimental. Jyoti Basu is a man from another age, as seen now in the context of current West Bengal politics and the sort of hotch-potch politics that rules in the name…
Right to Information ACT is kicking!
Know the new dream heroes! The ones who expose the chicken-hearted secrets of the high and mighty! Subhas Chandra Agarwal, RTI activist, no, a zealot leads the way for the no lesser mortals! Wajahat Habibullah, the Chief Information Commissioner! Shailesh Gandhi, the Central Information Commissioner! They, among themselves, the trio have obtained from the Central…