Family values I am just a bit embarrassed by this theme! Why? Just before I typed this page, I saw a new book with the title:”Family values”. By whom? By one Jain muni and Dr.Abdul Kalam! They don’t both have familes! Then, how they can talk genuinely? So too our other greats: Mahatama Gandhi, Nehru…
Nobel Prize Committee can also do foolish things!
It awarded the economics prize in 1997 and now the word pays a high price for it! Foolhardy speculations led to the current economic crisis. The Ascent of Money A financial history of the world by Niall Fergusson, Penguin, 2009, pp441, paperback. The book, the paperback edition has come out only a month ago. The…
The new Planning Commission constituted!
What is new about it? Not much! The same old faces are here again. The newly constituted Commission has once more the same deputy chairman, namely, Montek Singh Ahluwalia. There is again the old list with Ms. Syeda Hameed and Mr. Abhijit Sen from the old panel. The Prime Minister has administered the oath office…
Why the hurry for the Free Trade Agreement with Asean?
Prime Minister’s case seems weak and taken in haste! Kerala Chief Minister raises objection for the right reasons! Yes, trade talks are critical for any country, more so for India. Asean is India’s fourth-largest trading partner after the EU, US and China. Indo-Asean trade is growing at 27 % and stands at 38.37 billion in…
Do you know this side of America?
A racially charged atmosphere prevails there? Yes, it looks the US is a society, with all its great strengths and maturity still feels vulnerable when it comes to the age-old racial issues. There is still, it seems a simmering undercurrent of unease when it comes to racial equality. It is very much like India’s own…
PM must give way to new leadership!
A democratically elected leader must become the Prime Minister A Prime Minister is a leader. A genuine leader leads and he believes in a set of hardcore beliefs. What are Manmohan Singh’s beliefs? What is his belief system, his ideology? Time and tide wait for nobody? Yes, in politics too this seems to be the case. Now,…
Empowering the people? Who cares? Who believes in?
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…