Yes, say many: thinkers and others! What about the Indian people? The ordinary citizens and the elite? Yes, there are solid reasons for a New Optimism in India! Of course we need to think much more on positive lines! The media is getting strengthened! See Al Jazeera TV Channel! The number one TV news Channel…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Travels in classical Greece
The life and death of Socrates! The one voice that stood out all through the centuries! What makes Socrates’ life and death? Some reflections on a recent trip to Greece and the historic sites! You see, that since my travels in Greece recently, I have come back and not yet recovered! I am dumbstruck! Not…
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…
What I saw in Greece! Words fail me, I lose articulation!
The world’s first civilization in classical Greece! That gave birth to democracy first! Yes, the visit I had the good fortune to undertake, after a life-long quest and seeking, not just opened my eyes, the visit made me dumb-struck for days and, it looks, even by months! The one side is that I don’t know…
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…
The bureaucratic jungle that is New Delhi!
Who doesn’t know the Indian psychology? Every Indian citizens, not necessarily, the ordinary citizens but only those who are government servants or already in the charmed circle of IAS or IPS officers, the IFS lost its old glory and other services are on the whole a disgruntled lot. Why? It is because the very ways…
Economic policy making in a democratic society
You see that a democratic government is one that is supposed to be a guardian of citizen rights, right? In the current context, how far the citizens cutting across all class barriers feel about their rights and well-being safeguarded by the elected government? Then, also, how do the citizens come to know about what is…
Presidential elections in India
Democracies, as per one estimate, in the world’s most populous states the ruling parties won hardly 40% of the national elections. In the five major nations, the incumbent parties suffer3ed humiliating defeats, France and South Korea and Britain barley escaped defeat. The world economic scene presents a dismal picture; global economy slumped to 2.5 %…