Education and healthcare Let us concentrate on time bound targeted goals! Two rural people-focused healthcare programmes make news. All the corporates, companies and corporate hospitals can take up these types of social ventures in all States. Dr.Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister says poverty would be halved by 2015. This goal is set out as one of…
A performing government?
There is a huge credibility gap for the government Manmohan Singh government is now in an unsustainable dilemma The government is there now for quite a time and it hasn’t started any of its promises into real action. No programme had captured the imagination of the people so far. The poor, the farmers, the minorities…
How to understand China?
Life after the Nobel Prize Or, an afternoon at Santiniketan! Why this title! The other day I was speaking to my long-time friend in Santiniketan. What can you do when you are caught up in a remote village where you don’t have Internet Broadband connectivity. Accustomed to live in hightech Bangalore where latest technological gadgets…
How I spoke at the Oxford Debating Society?
One of the Oxford’s enduring institutions is the Oxford Union. It had produced leaders who went on to build an Empire, fight the World Wars, establish international standards in all walks of life. Here is how I was able to fulfill my life’s ambition of participating in this august body. I a way, I imagined…
Men in government
They talk of rural India. We listen! This government is seen progressively as groping in the dark for policies. To tackle several important segment of issues. one is rural India. Agriculture and rural India’s development are interlinked. So too, the many new institutions, Panchayat Raj in particular for rural India’s transformation. So, what have we…
Two big biographies : Winston Churchill, Lord Keynes
Time has come to call the British bluff. The “New Britain” is seen by British people themselves as a nation given to much war-mongering on the part of Tony Blair who imagines himself a second Winston Churchill! More war interventions, more name and fame for Britain. I had read the two biographies of two great…
The use of economics and economists
Economics alone doesn’t save a government Economists in India had enjoyed periods of much recognition and also much neglect. In Independent India, under Nehru, economists came to much public notice. P.C.Mahalanobis, V.K.R.V. Rao and many others, including the foreign economists of the calibre of Nicholas Kaldor and Tan Tinbergen, Oscar Lange (Communist economist) were more…
Even educated Indians don’t bother to know the world!
So,what hopes for our leaders to take India forward? Even highly educated Indians, I mean those with foreign education qualifications and training don’t seem to know how the world is moving forward. Those Indians with foreign qualifications, with MBAs, are employed in corporate world. They are either owner entrepreneurs or employed by businessmen at high…