One Year of Modi government! What are the highlights? Yes, there are some serious letups too! We are a mature democracy, right? What does that mean? We have to be balanced, open-minded and also objective. On these criteria there are some great moments in Modi’s one year and also serious drawbacks when it comes to…
Farmers’s issues becoming more distressing everyday!
Prompt payment of farmers’ compensation should be monitored by the PMO! Reports of farmer’s suicides coming almost everyday and the nonseasonal rains is not the only reason. There is a grim reality of the continuing trail of farmer’s suicides. Over 3,000 farmers have taken their lives in the last three years alone. Over three lakh…
Modi’s one year
What are the assessments by the supporters and critics? Supporters many, few critics are no ordinary persons. Yes, Modi’s one year is being celebrated over much geography. Press conferences and other publicity means. Mr.Modi who has been very much on the international stage all these months and also playing to the theatrical style performances and…
Time for PM Modi to build a national consensus!
On a range of issues! One year performance review of the Indian government. There is a mixed sense of elation as well as criticism over one-year of Modi government. It is time we make a fresh new debate on Indian political and economic ideologies. Our economic future depends upon how our people look forward to…
Indian agriculture faces new challenges
Deficit rainfall this year too? Yes, there is some disconcerting news for the Indian agriculture sector this year also. Last year there was 12% deficit rainfall. And the result was a reduction in grain output by3%. This year too there is the weather prediction dept which says this year also there would be below normal…
Land Acquisition Bill politicised?
Who is pro-poor: BJP or the Congress? Prime Minister Mr.Modi, after his very path-breaking 10-day, three nation tour to Europe and Canada has come to find himself fighting a battle of sorts, this time; it is all about the, public perceptions of his government. All his strenuous efforts so far, from the day he took…
National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)
Notified hardly 48 hours as the Supreme Court takes up hearing the batch of petitions challenging the Act! Confrontation or conciliation ahead? The Modi regime is surely doing things about the independence of judiciary in unusual ways. Much more explicit language might not be appropriate for this journal! There is a batch of petitions challenging…
Indian politics
Churnings in the Indian political parties Congress, Janata parivar and the AAP Splits, imminent splits and also survival unity efforts! Janata Parivar merges into one party! Yes, it is a positive change for more open society Democratic Socialism can be restored! But great efforts in resolving contradictions and fighting the personal ego of leaders are…