Subject the ICAR to social adutdit! By farmers bodies! Even high ceremonial speeches must shed cliches and get to the more earthy and ground level realities! There was this ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the ICAR auditorium in the name of C.Subramaniam. And another to commemorate Annasheb P.Shinde, the two who presided over…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Promoting music and dance!
Amjad Ali Khan says Every state capital in India should have a cultural complex Like London’s South bank Centre or Carnegie Hall, New York One can’t say it any better! One can’t excel also the Western countries when it comes to culture and what it means culture promotion. Amjad Ali Khan is a great Indian…
Arjun Singh doesn’t have a clue to how to reform the higher education system!
Mr.Arjun Singh, the HRD minister, in his position for the second time. A two-term HRD minister must be seen as a man with a vision and a mission. The minister doesn’t display both these assets. All we can hope to remember about the minister is his penchant for playing his card as a pro-Marxist minister….
Indo-US nuclear deal would make India a stronger economic power!
Jyoti Basu’s stance is unpardonable! Jyoti Basu must put India’s supreme interests above party line! Even to be seen as Mr.Somnath Chatterjee is seen with a stoic silence after his return and consultation with Jyoti Basu, even for a day or two, seems to us, as unjustifiable. Thank god, the Speaker had seen wisdom not…
Ashis Nandy’s provocative views and the Supreme Court intervention!
Much of Nandy’s language is fine but the insights are not wisdom enough! Prof.Ashis Nandy is a high profile academic. He is variously described as psycho-analyst and political psychologist. I don’t really know much to make any distinction between the two disciplines. With this confession, let me say what he has done to clarify what…
V.K.R.V.Rao’s birth centenary celebrated!
What is the status of the Social Sciences in India? Why we have forgotten to teach the Political Science? Is it not the king of the social sciences? Gandhi, Nehru and Indira Gandhi legacy we talk about! But we don’t analyse and articulate their legacies or their political ideologies! Some peculiar Indian legacy! In Bangalore,…
The Congress makes moves for signing the nuclear deal!
Left Adventurism: time to call the bluff! The Left has really become a pain in the neck. The time has come to call its bluff. It is blackmailing the UPA government almost from day one. It imagines it has the key to unlock the world. Or, to the world’s wisdom! Such is its self-imagined arrogance…
Salute to Sam Bahadur!
Government of India must have conferred the Bharat Ratna Even on his deathbed, he deserved the highest honour! Sam Bahadur as he was lovingly and with much indulgence called by one and all is no more. Salute to his memory. He would be remembered for a long time to come. It is nice to remember…