Why Microfinance is now a bad word? Finance ministry must introduce a regulator for the agricredit monitoring Yes, microfinance companies have now come under a cloud. Andhra Pradesh government brought out an ordinance in 2010 end and asked the RBI to probe the scandals that have come out now in the open. There have been…
Barack Obama talks of education, often!
In India no one talks of education! Why? Our leaders engaged in other activities? See what is the state of India as a country and people? In the UK the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister both talk of education! For the Liberal Democrats education is an article of a creed, a faith! Of course,…
Ethical and moral issues could be devastating!
This is what happened to the Tatas now! Ratan Tata trips and his image battered! Media misconduct and unethical practices Radia telephone tapes revelations! Ratan Tata is the most powerful industrialist of India. He controls a vast empire and his group is claimed to spend about Rs.600-Rs700 crores on advertisement and publicity. So, we can…
Cuncum climate change convention
Climate change now critical for agriculture, food and much else Compromise, optimism and middle ground are the critical words and the way to the next phase of the agenda. Climate change convention, simply called Cancum, the Mexican city, has produced something positive? We must hope so for such a high profile UN meet (UNFCCC) won’t…
Secondary education
Why we need idealist schools/experimental schools? Just now I was going through an old review article, written by A.J.Ayer, the reputed Oxford philosopher in an old issue of the Encounter, and then edited by the poet Stephen Spender. I was an old-time admirer of Spender in those times and also an ardent reader of the…
A Watergate-type crisis emerging?
A mid-term crisis or a mid-term poll syndrome? Ministers don’t perform and more scandals strike! It looked when the UPA-II was formed it was a sort of some improvement over the previous UPA_I. For one thing, some really corrupt ministers from the allies were kept out of the ministry and the DMK, even then created…
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh tied themselves in so many knots!
Indian polity is an unexpected crisis! Parliament adjourns without transacting any business The Congress remains adamant Opposition’s demand for JPC justified? Parliament adjourned after three weeks without functioning. Now, the situation is developing towards a crisis of unpredictable nature. The Supreme Court is almost directing the government on several matters. This is not good at…
Scams and Scandals!
Agriculture and much of development issues It is all about dispensing natural resources! We, in India, in particular have to a stage where many issues have taken critical shapes. Take the very latest scams and scandals. What they about? They are about, in a more sense of gravita, ethics and equity or justice in the…