What is the rationale? The aim and timing? To accelerate reforms and growth? Or, a gamble, desperation and divert public attention? What about major election-eve issues like corruption, lack of direction and momentum etc? Yes, the recent major cabinet reshuffle, at the face of it, looks like a major change? What is this major change…
A happy development for Indian democracy?
The dilemma facing Indian democracy today America, India and China What is common for them in economic and political arenas? The time seems appropriate for asking such a question. A question that is heavily laden with serious issues of peoples of the respective countries as well as for some of the big global issues of …
Land acquisition bill draft cleared now?
So many controversial features it has? Yes, big corporates have expressed strong reservations and questioned the wisdom of the many provisions Some of the major infrastructure projects are delayed as long as 216 months. First, the very name change. The British enacted old 1894 land acquisition bill didn’t seek the consent of the farmers. Those…
Fighting corruption in India possible?
We have reached a new paradigm shift! Media has become the activist participant in the battle! All sacred cows have been taken out and laid in the open! Every citizen is now drawn into the battle and so it seems this time we might succeed. Very likely this time we might succeed! The way the…
Dr.Verghese Kurien passes away!
What new to be said about him? Dr.Verghese Kurien, the public face of India’s milk revolution, is no more. He had left his imprint on the lives and fortunes of every Indian village, every rural household in a very significant manner that Indian villages, Indian rural landscape won’t be any more poverty stricken, thanks his…
Quality education in Indian schools and colleges?
Inside the curriculum and outside the curriculum! Secondary schools, at least in the most resourceful ones, must be open-minded, open to new ideas and new experiments. Outside the curriculum, a range of activities, from good libraries, high quality journals to travels and visits to historic sites and even foreign countries and also extra-curricular activities like…
FDI in a big way? Welcome!!
But who will be in charge? The current Prime Minister and his team lost their mandate! It is the next government that will decide the FDI in many sectors! This decision claimed and hailed as breaking into the last great China Wall. But the public scepticism, in the context of the series of corruption scandals…
Once an admired Prime Minister!
Now, a lonely figure of pity and much sympathy? Who thinks of India? Who thinks for India? What is the big picture for India? Indian democratic system in crisis? Big bang economic reforms made news. This was for a brief time. In just 2 years! From 2010 to 2012, what a fall! Then he was…