Election Commission is weak! How to make it an anti-corruption machinery? The image of leaders is critical! There is a widespread perception that India is becoming prone to corruption increasingly. This issue we have to face boldly and talk about it. It is our view that the public at large is not prone to giving…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Media freedoms, the urban and rural media!
Building a brand name for agri media! Political climate critical for media freedoms to thrive. News is not information! Only controversial news is news! In agri sector there is no scope for controversies, except farmer’s suicides! Even that doesn’t make new3s now! So, agri media must get between social and political recognition. See even the…
Tamil Nadu’s politics
Political stability is critical for good governance! That is what is the common ground between the Governor’s strategy and the Edapppadi government. The factions within the ruling AIADMK government in TN and also the other stakeholders, including the people are showing unusual patience in testing the majority of the ruling combine. As it is, the…
What is this OBC politics, suddenly?
Sociological realities of rural India! Please don’t play caste politics! In the name of OBC quotas! These are old hats. The politics of OBC castes. Right now, the Modi government has come out with a much more narrow mindset than what was prevalent in the Mandal report days. Now, castes are dissolving owing to several…
Opposition in Democracy
How the Indian polity is evolving? How the ground-realities are evaded? Yes, there is also a historical cycle to this phenomenon of holding on to power, from ancient Greece to modern day Indian democratic realities! The Greece we visited recently as a family tour, we mean the journey to the ancient classical Greece of the…
Let us liberalise the agri sector!
Give more freedoms to farmers! That is the way to increase investments and agri production! Indian agriculture is now orphaned! For lack of patronage and awareness! Corporate support is almost nil and the government is no less negligent. Why we say this at this juncture? For the obvious reason that even otherwise, there is a…
Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech!
Media comments are noteworthy! They say fine to the PM’s long term vision. But the short-term is challenging. Two highlights of the PM’s speech were GST and demonetisation. Fine, fine. But then are there only two critical issues for sustained economic growth? We believe that the government economist writers or input givers there are more…
A Progressive education outlook!
That is what India needs at the moment! Internationally comparable standards! In general education and medical education too! See the appalling public health, in Gorakhpur and even in other states! Swine flu threat is also spreading! Education is a public cause, not a private profit! Indian character needs introspection! We are talkers, not doers! How…