Why our villages remain as they are? Why our agriculture neglected? It is Gandhi-Nehru legacies of an idealistic or unrealistic world views? C.K.Prahalad, the management guru had put forward the thesis of “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”. Who the BOP? The poor, right? But then, where does the real rural India come in?…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Sonia Gandhi’s predicament
She has to set her house in order first! Sonia Gandhi was served with a notice from the Election Commission for her use of language”, merchants of death”(maut ke saudagar) in the Gujarat election campaign. Mr.Narendra Modi’s retaliation justifying the “police encounter deaths” as a response to Sonia Gandhi’s this remark also received the EC’s…
An Open Letter to L.K.Advani
Define your vision for India! L.K.Advani, 80, is now named by the BJP as the next Prime Minister, if the party wins the next elections. That’s fine. In a democracy, after all, we must have an Opposition party, a strong enough and a united Opposition that is part of any vibrant democracy. Our polity is…
India’s biofuel policy shouldn’t punish farmers!
As sugarcane farmers punished by sugar factories and the governments! Biodiesel policy won’t work if it threatens food security! PM on his South African tour was publicised as talking of biofuels at the Brazil, S.Africa and India summit. But this is just public rations exercise only. Ethnol, biodiesel and green diesel! Do you know the…
President Pratibha Patil’s first home visit
Proceeded by farmer’s suicide in Amravati! After PM’s Vidarbha package what hopes for farmers even if elections come? President’s prodding’s must help and the public would be interested to know the results! Surely, our economic reforms haven’t worked in favour of the farmers, the disadvantaged who live outside the cities. At least in the cities…
Vision and leadership in business only?
Why not in agriculture and peoples’ growth? This year’s human development index lets down India. India falls two steps downward! From 126 Indian slips to 128 rank! A national shame? We ask the decision makers, the leaders in politics and the corporate world! We read, day in and day out, in the urban press, in…
Our leaders don’t have any imagination!
You dont need a Nobel Prize winner to tell you what to do to abolish poverty and raise living standards! UPA government led by Manmohan Singh might be better than the NDA government led by Vajpayee. But the over all economic development was initiated by the NDA and it is the same road the UPA…
Latest UN Human Development Report
Puts India lower this year! India falls to rank 128, two places below than last year! The UN Human Development index is a clear measurable independent index on any country in the world to look at itself about what is happening in the world. India has been the source for much of the work to…