PM’s US visit seems a prosaic affair! The Prime Minister went on a 7 day foreign trip. This was on security issues, inside and outside India. Inside, the masscare of 76 CRPF jawans created a national furore. Shashi Tharoor IPL scandal hit in a big way. PM’s US visit seems a prosaic affair. Indian diplomacy…
Nitin Gadkari wants Ganga -Cauvery Link of national rivers!
He talks lots of practical sense! He must dilute more his temple rhetoric! Nitin Gadkari, the new president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be a refreshing new air in the Indian politics.Gone seems to be the era of L.K.Advani and his team. Gadkari dreams almost near total secular dream, expect his compulsions…
The draft food security bill
Is it an honest step or election rhetoric? The real players won’t speak! That is the significance of the bill! Yes, in India, lately, with the UPA-II is facing problems over certain sensitive legislations and the Opposition, unexpectedly sensing some opportunity to block crucial legislation, the UPA-II desperate for some radical action. That is the…
Food Riots around the World!
Food crisis on the horizon? The Red Corridor of India now an explosive front! That is where the tribal belt lies and where much chronic food crisis and malnutrition and development deficit looms large! The Right to Food Security is now on the election manifesto, right? So, there is every hope that food distribution and…
Do the humble farmers’ high incomes make headline news?
They dont, why not? 75 FIRs registered against UP sugar mill owners! 19 FIRs registered against mills for procuring cane from farmers illegally! These are all big news and big developments in the current messy sugar business scenario. These UP mills are all very big ones, unlike in the South where the mills are very…
A weak Prime Minister, a weak Foreign Minister
A retired foreign secretary, an over-ambitious Home Minister Foreign Security and internal security Are things clear in New Delhi? There seems to be some disarray in the Central government functioning. Already Sharad Pawar, the agri minister has been adding fuel to the rising food prices. After sugar prices, the food minister has indicated that milk…
An open letter to Sonia Gandhi
The Congress President should visit the State Congress Headquarters whenever she visits Tamil Nadu. We wrote to Mrs.Sonia Gandhi a few days ago a letter in this regard. We are glad she has obviously seen to have responded. She visited Satyamurthy Bhavan on 13 March 2008. First time a Congress President has done this! Bangalore…
We welcome US co-operation in modernisation of Indian agri sector!
Why does one go for a secret new agribusiness pact with the USA? Why the secrecy, why this below radar deal? A five column news report appears in the national daily on such captioned title. The government only last week, that is, just a week before the presentation of the budget “quietly secured a Cabinet…