Indian character, the Indian mindset have haunted and disturbed me for long. Unless we study and understand how the Indian character had evolved through the ages, how our character is shaped by our long history of oppression and suppression, we can’t understand ourselves fully. We can’t in turn understand the world outside also fully! We…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Dravidian era: a great illusion?
The coming of the Dravidian politics is seen by many uncritical elements as a great blessing. I consider the opposite is true! The illusion of Tamil supremacy stands disproved!
Pawar throws the tool!
Confesses India would lose self-sufficiency in food! The Government must make a strong commitment to make India self-sufficient in food! Sharad Pawar, the agri minister, is in the news lately for all the wrong news! Poor man, he should be worried about India’s growing food deficit. Yes, he seems to be worried. Not so overtly….
“Trust me” stance of the Prime Minister doesn’t impress the Indian opinion.
“Trust me” stance of the Prime Minister doesn’t impress the Indian opinion. On such critical issues like US- Indo nuclear deal, Indo-Pak negotiations or China or Sri Lanka hasn’t won friends and supporters for him. The PM is relying on select officials and has no stomach for educating public opinion. An M.K.Narayanan, Sivashankara Menon or…
“Who is Who” of the Madras Legislative Council
Madras Legislative Council is perhaps the first legislative body set up in India in the then Madras Presidency. So it has a enviable pedigree and commanded great prestige and attracted great talents. I was elected when I was barely in my early thirties and perhaps one of the youngest members of the council ever elected…
Saiva Siddhanta – Journal
I was always interested in Indian philosophical issues. There is a close affinity between Tamil language and Saiva Siddhanta philosophy. In the year 1966 I was asked to write an article comparing western and Indian philosophy by the editor of this journal Rao Sahib N. Murugesa Mudaliar, a competent writer in both Tamil and…
The future of politics and liberty
100 responses from the intellectuals and writers The British magazine for writers and intellectuals asked its contributors the question: Left versus right defined the 20th century. What’s next? 100 Prospect contributors responded (Prospect March 2007) and what are their responses like? There is evident pessimism! Almost nobody expects the world better in the coming decades,…
We need a full-time agriculture minister!
So too a full-time PDS minister! Also a full-time co-operatives minister! Agriculture is becoming more and more hopeless and unviable. It is a great national shame that farmers and their families undergo in Vidharba. Readers, please go through the editorial, for details. As we write, there is another heart-breaking n new from Karnataka. A fairly…