Why U.R.Ananthamurthy missed the 2013 Man Booker Literature Prize? There are serious gaps in the British English mindset! The British, though now in decline, is still caught up with their imperial past. The British mindset hasn’t yet woken up. They haven’t realised they are in a stage as Portugal and Span, once empires, now mere…
Letter to Sri M.U.Rajashekaran, MLC
Bangalore Date : 18.6.2013 Sri M.U.Rajashekaran, MLC Hon’ble CWC Member 20/1, Kanakapura Road, Basavangudi, Bangalore – 560 004 Tel : 26576763 / 9448080337/9449001501 Sub: Your letter to Smt.Sonia Gandhi on the working of the Karnataka Congress government – reg: Dear respected Sri.M.Rajashekaran ji, I am glad to write to you on a news item I…
Letter to Sri Sezhiyan
Date : 17.06.2013 Sri Era Sezhiyan Ex-M.P., Guest House, VIT University, Vellore, TN Dear Sri Sezhiyan, Indian Parliamentary practices have been corrupted to the point of ushering in a mobocracy and even worse dangers! A call for some serious political reforms, more than any economic reforms, is in order! Just now I read your very…
The case for Third Front in Indian politics!
The political challenges and opportunities! We need new ideological articulations! So many distortions, so many contradictions! Democracy faces the dangers of a mobocracy! Even the political class seems driven by selfishness and greed! See even the ministers and their kin have indulged in large scale corruption and corrupt deals! Many cases are knocking at the…
Letter to The Hon’ble J.Jayalalitha
Bangalore Date : 10.04.2013 The Hon’ble J.Jayalalitha, President, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Lloyds Road, Royapettai, Chennai-600 014 Dear Madam, Sub: 2014 General Elections-regarding I take this opportunity of introducing myself as a Congressman since a long time. I grew up under the shadow of Pandit Nehru (since my Santiniketan days in the 1950s)…
Letter to Hon’ble Mamata Banerjee
Bangalore 12th April, 2013 Hon’ble Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister, Government of West Bengal, Writers Building, Kolkata Sub: Violence in Kolkata-Presidency University-the future of Indian polity-the future of the Indian National Congress-regarding Dear Chief Minister Mamataji, I am a former student of Santiniketan, Visvabharati for four long years and so I can address you this way…
Letter to Sri Sharad Yadav
Bangalore 16th April, 2013 Sri Sharad Yadav, President, Janata Dal (United), Head Office, 7,Jantar Mantar, New Delhi Sub: 2014 elections-need for forging an alternative front and a political ideology-regarding Dear Sharad Yadavji, Congratulations for your re-election as the President of the Janata Dal for the third time. I am no stranger to you though we…
Rare audience with Pope Benedict XVI!
What a surprise and miracle! Soon after this rare event comes the pope’s voluntary retirement! First time in 600 years of such a unique history such a thing happened! The Pope we saw and got his blessings, within a month went on to announce his resignation! Yes, the year 2013 held out so many unexpected…