Where Jaipal Reddy failed? Will Veerappa Moily make quick decisions? Why Jaipal Reddy moved out of the from Petroleum Ministry? No point blaming the corporate sector clout. We need quick and positive decision making and also drawing FDI in the sector in a big way! Let us be mature and take pragmatic decisions. Reliance Industries'(RL)…
India Against Corruption?
Challenges on the ideological front! Tatas and Infosys into the donation controversy! What future for the anti-corruption movement? The immediate provocation for this blog is the latest interview I read about by Yogendra Yadav, the political analyst and a much-admired idealist-turned activist who is spearheading the movement headed by Arvind Kejriwal and his team of…
New Ministers at the HRD Ministry!
This is not the time for ponderous editorial writing! Only 18 months left! For the next big election! So, what they can and cannot do? Mr.Pallam Raju, the new minister for HRD, seems to be a very competent man. May be his other two deputies too seem competent. So, our good wishes! But can they…
With Sir William Goodenough Hayter, Warden, New College, Oxford, 1971
A major Cabinet reshuffles?
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…