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…
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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…
Dantewada massacre and after
Why the intelligence failed? No place for egocentric “I know-all” policies! Tribal India and the current Maoist upsurge calls for a more broad based policies and approaches. Digvijay Singh’s alternative view needs some examination Mr.Digvijay Singh, currently the General Secretary of the Congress and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh have created some stir, a…
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…
Japanese Prime Minister’s visit to India
India should take it as a departure for a new policy for Asia Kuldip Nayar, the veteran journalist and a thoughtful Indian of some stature has written a New Year eve column in a newspaper. It is all about the current scene in South Asia, more so in India and Pakistan and by extension what…
Barack Obama’s address to the joint session of the US Congress
What lessons for India? India’s democracy? US democracy is vibrant and politics there is truly democratic! Here, we have, yes, democracy. But our Chief Executive is who? Prime Minister or the Party President? Yes, India must become a strong democracy. India must become a great democracy. In the USA we see this happening. See the…