V.Isvarmurti

Senior Indian Congressman, Thinker and Intellectual

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Poets and philosophers : Their lives and their troubles!

Posted on June 26, 2007October 7, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

Poets and philosophers! When you think of them, what thoughts immediately spring to mind? They seem to give much life and light to society.Much of our sense of culture and pure aesthetic pleasures, it m is poets and writers seem to be capable of providing.A society without some intellectual strength cant be a society and…

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Conscience vote in Presidential election

Posted on June 26, 2007June 26, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

Will the call for conscience vote in the upcoming presidential election in India trigger some unpredictable outcome? An internal rebellion in the Congress? The nomination papers of B.S.Shekhawat,the Opposition candidate for the Presidency by Natwar Singh,till the other day a leading light of the Sonia Gandhi’s inner circle points to a new development.Mr.Singh is still…

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From a subservient Prime Minister to a subservient President?

Posted on June 26, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

Presidential election loses its dignity and gravitas? Is democracy only a numbers game? If so, then, is politics is all about mere political survival for some persons or some families? It looks Sonia Gandhi’s approach to matters of high state, the legacy of the Congress party and its ideals and much else seems to be…

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President of India must rise up.

Posted on June 23, 2007June 26, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

How a high Constitutional office was dragged to a low common denominator! The Presidential contest between Mrs.Pratiba Patil and the incumbent Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has taken some ugly turns.This is most unfortunate. Given the high office of the President under the Indian Constitution,an office that is both ceremonial and symbolic of the hopes and…

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The current tragedy of agriculture policy making!

Posted on June 11, 2007June 11, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

India would turn into a food importer? Yes, says our Agriculture Minister! Our policy makers have become smug about agriculture! They don’t in fact know what to do to turn agriculture as India’s strength. That is the current tragedy of policy making. All our top ministers are able men. They are widely seen as the…

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Biltin Toker, my friend

Posted on June 9, 2007June 28, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

Biltin Toker, my friend Biltin Toker was my friend at Oxford, he was from Istanbul, Turkey. He studied architecture at Oxford and we became close friends. He used to win prizes for his innovative architecture designs and he and his designs used to be flashed at the Oxford towns local paper, Oxford Mail. After we…

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Third Front in Indian politics

Posted on June 9, 2007June 9, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

How it would transform Indian politics? A new Indian political flavour, this new coalition of regional and smaller parties? Yes, it looks like that. So long it was the two big national parties that headed the coalition politics in India. Now, it is the regional parties, the smaller parties that are converging towards a new…

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Why some write autobiographies?

Posted on June 7, 2007October 6, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

What price earthly glory ! No man is immortal! An autobiographical odyssey? Not quite!Here are certain random thoughts on why some choose to write autobiographies,while more prominent leaders don’t do the same? An intriguing question?Yes,if you look beyond the superficial writings most autobiographies and biographies are.Some autobiographies are just ego trips.Some others,the ones often by…

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V. Isvarmurti is a leading public figure from south of India. He is a former member of the then Madras Legislative Council. He had his education at such reputed institutions like Tagore’s Santiniketan and Oxford University. Read More

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