A grand reconciliation strategy is called for! Prime Minister must hold dialogue with intellectuals and human right activists In two years some 21 massacres! Of innocent, unarmed civilians most of the victims! Even the CRPF jawans innocent only! Home Minister says only limited mandate There is a serious rage and debate! Sonia Gandhi writes an…
Sharad Pawar’s May reply in the Rajya Sabha!
On the farmers suicides! The 2011 population census will give the number of farmers correctly? Or, we will resort to fudge figures like BPL and APL? And also hide figures for the farmers’ suicides? Farmer’s suicides: the eligibility criteria are a great insult to our sense humanity! Farmers’ suicides? A boring news? Yes, it has…
USA, EU and Japan alone give massive 219 billion dollar farm subsidies to their farmers.
This distorts international trade and directly hits Indian agriculture! Reforms in agriculture as urgent as in other economic sectors! Let us think out of the box! Yes, the monsoons seem to be timely this year, after, we are told, nearly three decades! India is monsoon-dependent agricultural economy and 70 per cent of the country’s agricultural…
American optimism
For the Americans and the rest of the world Education’s one more duty! To impart optimism to a people! Just now, we read through a longish book review in one of the international journals. It is about the latest two new books on American history. The 20th century America and to be exact the first…
“Who is the Tribal Affairs Minister of this country?”
Asks Sonia Gandhi’s high power advisory council member! Where to start shedding tears and where to stop? With the spate of killings and mass deaths The Maoists menace needs tough tackling! Armchair talks likely on tribal India development issues! First it was ambush and mindless killings of CRPF jawans. The toll at 76 was thought…
Letter to Mrs.Gandhi : TN Congress
Bangalore Date : 01.06.2010 Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi-100 000 Dear Mrs.Gandhi, Sub: Tamil Nadu Congress Alliance – regarding You must have seen the news report that the DMK’s highest policy making body met and deliberated the Rajya Sabha nominees and also about taking into its alliance the…
One year of UPA-II
Prime Minister after his press conference Faster developments, disasters, unwelcome events and much else! The latest series of Maoist-triggered mass killings tests the state There is urgency for new strategies to combat these senseless killings and to restore the state to its democratic core. This also calls for much soul searching and we have to…
National Advisory Council created!
Sonia Gandhi would head it Is it not a parallel PMO? Is the timing right? One more bureaucratic layer? One more bureaucratic hurdle for the people? Sonia Gandhi is already burdened with a heavy workload! Why not Rahul Gandhi heads the NAC? And the Youth Congress can monitor the government’s various development schemes and programmes….