How to assess Sonia Gandhi’s leadership? Kiran Bedi can’t have the cake and eat it too! While serving in uniform, you can’t play a Medha Patkar or a Mamata Banerjee! Women empowerment is taken, mistakenly,as putting women in political office! This is just an empowerment by accident! The “widows syndrome”! In the Western societies women…
America needs India’s strategic friendship
India should respond magnanimously and with confidence in the future! The USA is a super power not in the ordinary sense of the term in which it is always couched and understood.To understand the current world developments,the globalisation and all that we need to have a look at the past,a look at history of the long …
Can Dr.Manmohan Singh take India into the 21st century world?
Thoughts on the new crisis that grips the Prime Minister The US,in alliance with UK,still think of winning the war in Iraq.That is the assumption.But major powers, the G-8 and other powers,think otherwise.The point is that to fight the war against terror is also fraught with problems,as the terrorists constitute an invisible state!So,America needs many…
PM takes up agriculture only when other difficulties face him!
Agriculture, a soft topic or soft target? The magic 4 per cent farm growth will elude the Prime Minister,we warn!The Independence day came and the Prime Minister could not feel free to speak! Yes,he was faced with a major crisis!The Left allies in the UPA threatened to withdraw support for his government on the Indo-nuclear…
Tirupati, Kalahasti and the Chandragiri fort
Mass tourism is welcome! But provide more infrastructure! Preserving heritage sites,visiting the monuments and appreciating the same is what constitutes man’s search for identity,a link with his past. Heritage education, cultural heritage must be integrated with the religious and spiritual quest of the pilgrimage in the new age of mass tourism.Some thoughts. India has a…
Thoughts on 60 years of independence!
Time for introspection!We are celebrating 60 years of Independence! What thoughts grips the minds of citizens?Of course India has come a long way. Our first five year plan had only Rs.20,000 crores as the plan expenditure!We had just 25 universities!The best salary of the best brains,be it ICS or the corporate CEOs then were mere peanuts!Today,the…
Let us understand the dynamics of societies!
An unequal and inequitous society? Our society is inegalitarian; hierarchical only! Only social sciences can give us that rare insight into human behaviour,human psychology and also much of the social dynamics without which we can’t talk possibly with any deeper sense about the future. A new Liberalism in times of so much terror and destruction…
Why Ethics matters?
Impact of ethics on society and politics Ethics is all about the moral personality of man. About our conduct in society and politics! Ethics brings out our moral strengths, moral courage in our actions. And imparts to civilised society some well-defined moral behaviour and values. Ethics touches every aspect of our lives, personal and the…