The cry of the hour! Every agri sector is getting thoroughly bureaucratised! The way all the other initiatives in the past had turned out to be. Take Nabard itself. It had grown into well-entrenched bureaucracy, no further innovation under the existing Nabard setup is possible. There are on paper Nabard officials at every district. But…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
A Tribute : Dom Moraes, my friend
Poets make news in Britain, Why poets don’t make news in India? He belonged to the early years of Freedom and idealism, when subtlety mattered, reticence was a sign of culture and understated elegance was still a way of life. The more noisy, tabloid variety of celebrity status didn’t become still a new vulgarity! So,…
Listen to grassroots people!
The Prime Minister and his team shouldn’t go for mere bureaucratic exercises! Listen to people who have worked at the grassroots! There are already reports in the newspapers that the Employment Guarantee Bill is watered down. There is also the letter of Aruna Roy and her colleagues in their letter to Sonia Gandhi on the…
Macdonell’s history of Sanskrit literature
Historic facts about Mahabharata & Ramayana Educated Indians, even the best of their kind, might not be able to tell correctly the historic facts about our great classics, our Vedas, Epics, Brahmanas, Sutras etc. Our education is at fault greatly. But more to the point, our traditional gurukula education was based on caste and as…
Parliamentary Committee dissatisfied with crop loans by banks
Parliamentary members are once rated very high in society. Now? One is not sure. There are now reports on how our hon’ble MPs conduct themselves in Parliament. The Rajya Sabha is packed with all sorts of people, there are valid criticisms about how the RS members are nominated. It is even said the RS as…
Old Greece and today’s Greece
Olympic Games in Athens in August 2004 How the current Greek people and the Athenians look at their ancient sports that had staged a comback for the modern world? Afew new books on this ancient sport and the Greek people who today is intolerant of outsiders! If there is a single day when the modern…
Intellectual beliefs for a new century!
What India needs is a critical core agenda! On the day when the just installed Manmohan Singh govt. was faced with its first crisis, when Mr. Karunanidhi of the DMK threatened to walk out over portfolio allocation, I bought two old books in an antiquarian bookshop. One, Hugh Gaitskell, 1906-1963. Two, Anthony Crosland’s Socialism. Now,…
Farmers’suicides in the news
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised a new controversy with his teacher’- like exposition of the finances of the State Electricity Boards. In inaugurating a power station in Himachal Pradesh, the PM said free power to farmers is not justified and also asked for reducing power subsidies to farmers. This has raised a storm. The first…