Both insightful and also depressing! Stanley Wolpert is a distinguished professor and scholar and had written some of the more in-depth books on Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah. All these three figures have shaped the destinies of the Indian subcontinent. So, wolpert’s three books have become classics and anyone interested in India…
Category: People
David Miliband visit to India is a disaster!
The brash young Englishman and the cringing Indians. India has many lessons to unlearn and learn! Let us stand up and talk more boldly and confidently! Mr.Ratan Tata didn’t do India proud by welcoming the British Foreign Secretary at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai and honouring such an immature man just for the fact…
Public mood remains restless
The Home Minister has resigned. One Chief Minister has resigned. But is this enough? What about the bureaucrats and officials – from National Security Adviser downwards – whose actual job it was to act and prevent this tragedy. Its more important that they are made accountable if this system needs to be truly overhauled. The…
K.Chinnappa Bharathi, Tamil writer
What is progressive literature today? Many of Chinnappa Bharathi’s own friends and vast readership might not know the one important fact about this distinguished Tamil writer of progressive views. He is a committed Communist and a Marxist and had given the best of his years to the Party work and propaganda. What is the one…
For the cause of India!
I was nurtured by Pandit Nehru! I have all the credibility to certify genuine leaders and Congressmen! Just now I have read through a book titled, “The 100 best speeches of the pre-Independence India” edited by one D.C.Sharma(Rupa),2007. The book was a comeback for me. I went through the momentous years from the day of…
American banking collapse and the lessons
What lessons for Indian bankers and the government? Bankers are never popular! Why this is so? One has to think for an answer. Now, the American banking system is in turmoil. The big Wall St.Bank, Lehman Brothers, collapsed. Those who are specialists in the banking and financial system know well that it is the critical…
P.Thooran, the noted Tamil writer and poet
His birth centenary year celebrated recently in Chennai and Coimbatore. The Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, has funded the centenary of this highly acclaimed Tamil writer in Coimbatore. I thought the Akademi President, Sri Sunil Gangopadhyaya, the great writer and poet, novelist and editor in the Bengali language and letters must have been invited to preside…
Remembering H.Y.Sharada Prasad
Media adviser to the Prime Ministers Development journalists, progandists and even Geologists! The recent passing away of H.Y.Sharada Prasad, the long-time media adviser to Indira Gandhi, gave rise to a spate of moving tributes to his memory. Prasad very much deserved all the fulsome praise for his remarkable qualities. We also knew him for a…