Lessons learnt and unlearnt! A new political horizon seems opening in India at the moment. It is the outcome of the election verdict and the immediate developments.! The Karnataka Assembly election results surprised everyone concerned. There are many stake-holders, so to say. Of course it is another matter that stake -holders also had their own…
K.C.Chandrashekhar Rao
Telangana Chief Minister’s revolutionary farm reforms! Let us congratulate the hon’ble Chief Minister! Agriculture is never easy. It is a tough field. It requires tonnes of nerves and unlimited will power. For politicians lately, agriculture has become a plaything. How many Chief Ministers, the ambitious and the cunning ones, specially have promised instant farm loan…
Mixed signals about the future of the country and our own democracy
Public perceptions and the public opinion! The Prime Minister completes four years in office. The Prime Minister’s office (the PMO) is perhaps the most powerful political office under our Constitution. Our laws are also very different from those of the US government and the US Constitutional practices. See there the role of the law officers….
Agriculture and rural India has no media focus!
So, the problems of farmers and villages continue to suffer We are glad to see the Prime Minister’s visit to the Left-Wing Extremists-affected Chhattisgarh districts is very inspiring and timely. Why not the much talked about technology-enabled schemes, the rural BPO programmes take off in such remote villages? Very fine. We congratulate the PM and…
Landmark legislation too could become out of date!
The SC/ST Act and the many land legislation acts too fall in this category. Indian is known for a country with very many outdated legislation from the British era. In the Independent India too we have enacted some legislation in the time of many in justices and inequities in fast changing socio-economic times. Times have…
Travels in Greece
The Golden Age of Greece! Some contemporary parallels! As I finished this column, a thought flashed through mind like a lightning! It was Tagore, Gandhi and even Pandit Nehru and such great Indian leaders, as far as we can see, didn’t travel through Greece and Rome or studied or quoted from these two great civilisations,…
Culture and Governance!
Any link? Are we lacking in culture and good behaviour in public? In our governance sphere? Are protocols for the people or for bureaucratic bungling? See how the film awards are distributed! The controversy over the President’s film awards! Why are these mismatches over the protocol in ensuring all get the awards from the hands…
Chief Justice of India on media freedom
In a recent apex court plea by The Wire the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra reminded journalists that they can’t write as pore their imagination and deliver sermons like the “Pope sitting in a pulpit”. This was a very important case in which very high profile persons were involved. The son of Amit Shah,…