India’s enlightened national interest? Or enlightened international good? President George Bush was in India. Before this high profile visit came the French President Jaques Chirac’s visit. The French President came to India when India’s nuclear deal with America had created a storm in the Opposition ranks. France as everyone knows is a top nuclear power;…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
A fine piece of chaste Tamil prose writing
An Autobiography Incidentally, no other Tamil district town, as far as I know, has such a well-built cultural and literary meeting place and in this Salem stands out as a unique society of much literary merit. There was one more literary meet in Salem.This time it was the invitation of a leading figure in the…
Can the Govt. afford to be pro-poor, pro-farmer?
Finance Minister’s unhelpful attitudes There is this joke feature on the NDTV. It mercilessly exposes the humbug of our polticians, brings the PM, Sonia Gandhi and others and makes them answer to some plain questions. It brings in all the bigwigs, Vajpayyer, Advaniji and others too! In one recent feature, the month being the budget…
Prime Minister vs Chief Justice of India
Judicial activism ? Or Executive inaction? Executive excesses? Or, executive apathy? How the public mood swings? From helplessness to activism! By brave individuals and dedicated citizens! Judicial activism springs from the fact some bold individuals file public interest litigations on a variety of issues, from land encroachments to environment protection to human rights violations. Only…
India’s nuclear deal’s many unanswered questions
There is an air of complacency and self-congratulation in New Delhi! After the Indo-US nuclear deal everything seems to have been settled for this government. As Kuldip Nayar points out that the nuclear deal has only opened up some unsettled issues for not only India but more so for Pakistan and China. There are so…
Religion for sale? Like Pepsi, Coke?
Neofeudalism in new religious empires building? As I turned on the TV the Sri Sri Ravishankar’s Art of Living Foundation’s Silver Jubilee celebrations at Jakkur Airport grounds came alive! What a fantastic show, I wondered! So, I was caught up by the spectacle, it was all buzz and business from the word go! An estimated…
Central Government has no clarity!
What the next stage in agricultural growth should be! The PM needs to do much more than keeping himself busy with Delhi affairs or visiting the RBI headquarters for old time sake and also simply harping on the subject of the rate of economic growth, fiscal management etc. A Prime Minister has much more to…
My Oxford day intellectuals and scholars
I have written elsewhere, some time ago, about the number of persons who influenced my thought and also the way I think about issues. Those whom I didn’t not know personally but whose books influenced me form one set of such persons. These range from poets to philosophers, journalists, men like Boris Pasternak and other…