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…
Contemporary Britain
by John McCormick, Palgrave macmillan, 2007 Decline of Britain? Yes, certainly, it looks like that! I was surprised and saddened to read this book. Surprised to see that Britain as most Indians know it for all these years, the Britain of the great empire is now shrunken into a small nation of just 6o million…
Amartya Sen’s wisdom
How does it benefit India? Amartya Sen is the much admired Indian intellectual today. His latest book, The Idea of Justice, is just now released. He was in India and gave several interviews and talks promoting his book. We have already posted our review on our weblog (www.isvarmurti.com) and twitter/isvarmurti). Here we publish the same…
Jaswant Singh’ expulsion from the BJP on the issue of a scholarly book on Jinnah!
He is clearly the hero and would prove to be a hero for the future too! BJP acts in a childish manner and behaves in rash ways and that spells doom and disintegration of the major Opposition party. There is a crisis within the BJP! This crisis, as pointed our by Jaswant Singh himself on…
Please let us have a change of the agriculture portfolio!
New situations demand new ideas and new radical thinking in policy making! There are radical developments on the agricultural front! Yet Indian agriculture policy has become very much out of date! The world economic crisis has led to crisis in agriculture sector. Our agri exports are declining. Sensitive items, namely even the critical India-origin items…
Agriculture and rural development
What new revolution in India possible? Nothing new anymore? No one is speaking about these days! Aam aadmi, Nrega are the only two new words? Here are some bold new thoughts and a bit sceptical opinions! We have almost seemed to have exhausted by doing politics. Call it populist politics or democratic politics. We seem…
Biotech Brinjal approved by the government
Farmers’ bodies oppose! In October beginning, the Indian government’s high level committee, namely, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the department of biotechnology gave its approval for the country’s first GM crop, the bt brinjal. All the heall broke loose last week in the capital. A massive rally of farmers, of the four largest…
Indira Gandhi Raj and after
After 25 years what we see? Degeneration of polity, a non-functioning democracy? Or a very alive and kicking oligarchy of moneyed class everywhere? I write this on the 25th death anniversary of India Gandhi’s death. It was a gruesome death and the anniversary truly brings out the various reflections and comments on the person and…