How much the Indian public opinion will trust US promises? Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh had visited UK and later USA. UK visit didn’t produce any dramatic results, except he got a honorary degree from Oxford. In the USA he got the USA to help Indian in civilian nuclear energy tech. But India had to abandon…
My intellectual evolution
My interests, concerns, tastes and temperaments! Freedoms of man, my critical core belief. I can’t pretend to be other than what I am! What am I? Who am I? Such a question or questions can be posed as a plain simple self-questioning at a more pedestrian life. Or, such a question can be taken more…
Congress party wakes up to rural realities?
Vidarbha farmers’ continued suicides haunt the Prime Minister and the Agri Minister! What needs to be done? Prime Minister must deliver or ……! Prime Minister had visited the farmers’ suicide zone of India, Vidarbha and listened to the farmers’ problem! It is a nice gesture after two years of so much indifference! The CWC had…
Fuel price rise is no news!
Will the nuclear deal with USA ensure energy security for India? That civilian nuclear power is not going to come to help us in any near-term future. There is a steep rise in fuel prices. The Congress play a cynical drama by Sonia posing as the saviour of the poor, the Left and the BJP…
Disenchantment with PM sets in?
Our economy must be managed more efficiently! Two years of Dr.Manmohan Singh Prime Ministership seem to have brought home many weaknesses without much to talk about many highpoints. The management of the economy leaves much room for efficient and alert management. The Prime Minister might have imagined that 2 years in office is a time…
Populism runs riot in rural schemes!
Sonia populism vs state CMs’ populism! Is the National Advisory Council functioning? Aruna Roy resigns, others also lie low? Sound economic principles are needed in rural infrastructure development schemes. A pity such sound economic sense is missing now! The so many populist schemes where heavy subsidy or subsidies or almost freebies, like free ration rice…
Ravi Dayala, my friend
I read with much sadness about the passing away of Ravi Dayal my friend from Oxford days. I had read the many obituaries and tributes to his memory by some of his friends who had worked with him at the Oxford University Press in India and I learnt much about the many endearing qualities of…
Lakshmi Mittal takeover of the world’s second biggest steel company!
Image of Indians changes, old prejudices die in Europe! French President Jacques Chirac put up a brave face! It was a humiliating climb down for him. French national pride was touched! The “unfriendly” takeover became suddenly “friendly” takeover! The French and Luxembourg governments suddenly had to change course and come round to accept the Indian,…