None! None at all! You can’t have altruism unalloyed at the grass roots democracy, can you? Forget about it! For quite sometime! The hold of bureaucracy is total and unbreakable! Unfortunately, our current crop of leaders also doesn’t believe in empowerment, seriously! Yes, this election will be as like any other election. The other day…
The decline and fall of Tamil Nadu
The infrastructure of development twisted and turned into crooked selfish one-person agenda Where the development issues cry for attention Just travel around in Tamil Nadu by road. You will notice that the roads are so old, so old world fashioned with all their zigzag returns and twists. You can’t enter and exit any of the…
Yeddyurappa can earn enduring fame!
Yeddyurappa must think big and bold! He must drop any partisan agenda! Give co-operative institution full autonomy! No interference, please! Karnataka Milk Federation elections raise issues Co-operatives institutions must enjoy great autonomy Yeddyurappa must ensure great care and observe norms in good governance Yeddyurappa is doing well, in fact very well. We can’t attest to…
New Delhi! New world of make-believe?
Aam aadmi! Political rhetoric or hat-trick? Monsoon might play havoc and so spend more on agriculture! Agriculture is the critical issue! Yet, how many in the government know this? Or, you know who are all, in the government, sensitive to agriculture issues? What new hopes for a new generation economic reforms? Pranab Mukerjee has played…
Kamalnath wants to build 20 km of National Highway everyday!
You have to build another seven new Mumbai’s by the next 12 years! There is a new urgency and a confidence among the ministers of the Prime Minister’s team. Every minister is supposed to announce their favourite targets. The first to come and the first to withdraw were Veerappa Moily and Kapil Sibal. The gay…
Pranab Mukerjee’s populist budget
A sweet revenge against his boss and rivals? Is there any hidden agenda? A hidden agenda could mean many things. It could be a hidden economic agenda or it could well be a political agenda as well. However you interpret the agenda, the hidden meanings could take different hue and meanings and messages. One thing…
HDFC chairman
Deepak Parekh must be made the Planning commission chairman! Narayanamurthy or Nandan Nilekani must reform the electoral system! Yes, the Manmohan Singh team is in place. That doesn’t mean that everything with the economy or the polity will go smooth. Already we see the consonance and the dissonance! The Presidential address to Parliament was full…
What Rahul Gandhi is doing now?
What is his karma? He can help electoral reforms? Help judicial reforms? Can help Parliamentary reforms? Not the least help reform the Congress party! There is much expectation from Rahul Gandhi after the recent elections which brought the Congress party to near absolute majority. This happened after 20 years and at a time when Rahul…