The recent Malegaon bomb blasts had one fall-out. The home minister, Shivraj Patil, seems to have come out poorer in the wake of Sonia Gandhi’s personal visit. So, there is dissatisfaction and now the news reports have it that Sonia Gandhi has decided to replace Patil. So, the announcement by the PM about appointing anew…
Agriculture? Why everyone avoids the topic!
Govt gets panicky on price rises! Food grains distribution to the States to be reduced! Prices rise steeply for rice, wheat, sugar, pulses and edible oils! Sugar costs Rs.22 per kg! Wheat, sugar and milk prices contribute directly to inflation. So, desperate steps to impose restriction and other actions under the Essential commodities act. The…
India to revive NAM? Better live with the new realities!
India needs a whole new world view! PM at Havana and the usual anti-American rhetoric won’t make news anymore. After 5 years of 11/11 the world today is a wholly new place! Foreign affairs are first and foremost recognition of the global realities. To adjust constantly the emergent realities! To play the role in war…
It is time we create A National Co-operative Bank!
To make the co-operative bank network to become more efficient and compete! To attend to the co-operative banks and to accelerate credit to the farm sector. Yes, this was an old proposal but somehow left behind in the current fashions of economic reforms. Even now, see the neglect of agricultural development in the over-all scheme…
How States can become economically advanced?
The new competition among the States is welcome! Intelligent Chief Ministers can make the difference! Economic development is now on everyone’s mind. Only fast economic growth, intelligent use of govt funds, adoption of new technologies, use of human resources, in what is often seen as the merging knowledge economy, we need knowledge workers, to earn…
Driving through the Bengal countryside
Agri sector in Bengal disappointing! Bengal has to go a long way before it can transform the agri sector into a commercially thriving sector for any new agro entrepreneurship. Just to compare Maharashtrian agri sector with that of Bengal is like to compare two different worlds! West Bengal was once the richest State but it…
West Bengal Chief Minister : Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s change of heart
Retreat from Revolutionary Rhetoric! Charting a New Capitalist Path! Yes, there is a new air of great expectancy in Bengal. A new optimism and a new sense of purpose in all walks of life. But this expectancy, this confidence is still in the hearts and minds of some people at the top. May be in…
Vande Mataram came and gone!
Why our leaders made themselves invisible? Sonia Gandhi wrongly advised! I terribly felt let down when on the day India celebrated Vande Mataram’s centenary, our leaders chose to hide themselves from public view! What message we sent out? India needs a robust type of leaders! Yes, when the President of India, the Prime Minister and…