The publication of Mr.Jaswant Singh’s book, A Call to Honor, had justly created a storm. Apart from the more sensational disclosures about the existence of a mole or a spy in the PMO of Narasimha Rao and the circumstances that led to the IC-814 hijack to Khandahar, the other details about the Pokhran-II, Kargil, 9/11,…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Zest for Living
Thoughts on class structure, material wealth and cultural attainments. Creative ideas, creative energy that keeps my enthusiasms alive! As soon as I finished typing this essay I went out and put on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by Herbert Von Karajan. What an impact it made on me, on my mood! There was this sudden reaction and…
Bombay blasts more serious than price rise!
Ministers’ competencies come for criticism! The Bombay blasts had devastated the nation.200 dead, 700 injured in a few minutes in several places! This is too much. But distressed the country much more is the sort of response and the sort of immediate explanations from the Government. Tavleen Singh, the veteran columnist, writing from her Bombay…
Cauvery Waters Tribunal ends its work in confusion
Kerala seeks control over five dams! Supreme Court directs the raising of the height of Narmada Dam! Yes, the inter-state waters disputes are no more news. They make news whenever the state politicians have no other purposeful jobs on hand! So, comes the news of persisting inter-state rivers disputes, from one state or other. Now,…
Foreign Direct Investment in Agriculture
Economic nationalism in industry and agriculture The India-born Lakshmi Mittal’s takeover of the Europe’s biggest stall maker, Arcelor, now Arcelor-Mittal Steel, made lots of headlines for months. The major European governments, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, the Presidents and Prime Ministers of these countries raised a hue and cry over their own nationalistic industry (they held…
Dr.Manmohan Singh as an economist
PM’s loss of face, a pity! PM must have educated the people and the allies about his core economic vision and his basic beliefs in economic reforms. This he had failed to do and the consequences for the image of the country, than for his personal stakes, is much more serious. Will the UPA retrieve…
Why UP remains a backward State?
UP is always in the news. For all its political importance. But the State is known for its extreme complexity in all its many dimensions, political complexity, political instability and the big number MPs who make up the composition of the Central Government in all desirable and undesirable ways! UP’s economic and social backwardness is…
Inflation control out of bounds?
Finance Minister can’t do much in such matters! Prices of food items rising, inflation a worry the government most just now! There is now an emerging crisis on the economic front. It is the inflation, rather the rising inflation. The word inflation is a difficult word. We don’t think that except some economist experts like…