Know the new dream heroes! The ones who expose the chicken-hearted secrets of the high and mighty! Subhas Chandra Agarwal, RTI activist, no, a zealot leads the way for the no lesser mortals! Wajahat Habibullah, the Chief Information Commissioner! Shailesh Gandhi, the Central Information Commissioner! They, among themselves, the trio have obtained from the Central…
Dantewada massacre and after
Why the intelligence failed? No place for egocentric “I know-all” policies! Tribal India and the current Maoist upsurge calls for a more broad based policies and approaches. Digvijay Singh’s alternative view needs some examination Mr.Digvijay Singh, currently the General Secretary of the Congress and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh have created some stir, a…
India’s power sector: private players do a good job, prices to go up!
Private players seem to have effected a game changing development! They added almost half the total addition to power capacity. There are exciting developments in the power generating sector. It is the big role played by the private players, also called independent power producers, who totally alone produced half of the additional capacity in the…
Right to Free and Compulsory Education!
Right for free and compulsory access to minimum food! How the American experiences can help us? America, the drop-out economy! Where 3 out of 10 American students drop out of high schools as recently as 2006 Less than a third of students finish college! These and many other such startling statistics has been published in…
Democracy, development and security!
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…