How we can impact on our times? Indians must stand up and learn to speak for themselves as free citizens. The many hang-ups, the legacy of the British colonial low-confidence mindset and also the new political bosses who don’t practise any known Constitutionally-mandated norms of public behaviour have sapped the energies of the common man…
Prime Minister, Parliament and the Constitution
Prime Minister is the supreme political authority under the Constitution. Unfortunately, things are turned upside down! What a surprise! I was to write on the Prime Minister’s current difficulties over the Coalgate scam and the way he is almost hounded by the media and the Opposition parties and a variety of vested interests. Poor man!…
Right to food security?
It is possible because our agriculture is modernised by industrial strength and economic growth! Food bill is not election rhetoric? The Central government legislation, Right to Food Security Act is a welcome development as other welfare schemes. In the present context, there are so many state-level welfare schemes, so many, almost covering every aspect of…
Eluding justice to the common citizens?
Lalu Prasad Yadav in jail The pending cases are pending for political reasons? Special courts to try political corruption must function on day- to-day basis! How many courts and how long years wait for trying political, economic offences? We are a democracy and other countries like Russia and China are not so openly democracies. But…
Narendra Modi : will he make it in the 2014 elections?
Rahul Gandhi’s chances any better? The 2014 general elections in India has generated much heat and many expectations. Expectations that this is the first time that the BJP is pitching for a high stake claim by projecting Narendra Modi, the Gujarat Chief Minister for the powerful office of India’s Prime Minister. India is no more…
Will there be villages in the future?
Who can give an answer? There are always either doom stories or boom stories! When it comes to our villages! Indian villages would thrive as ever as anyone can look into the future. Villages have lived in all developed countries. In UK, the glories of the countryside is celebrated. There are any number of legends…
Core sector infrastructure industries report 8 percent growth!
This will do immense good for agri sector! Agriculture and industrial development is closely linked! The current good news about industrial pickup is good for agriculture! Key sectors, eight sectors, coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, steel, cement, electricity rose sharply to eight percent from 3.7 percent, in the first eight months. Agriculture thereby…
USA and UK surveillance of Indian government and citizens!
First, the Britons! Now, the Americans! Indians have to learn to be independent citizens! How to stand up to the brain-washing and other soft power and strong arm tactics? Indians have a long history of brain-washing by the British rulers. From education to scholarship to literature to what Indians believe as an independent nation, we…