First, the farmers’ suicides hit the new government. Even as we write there is a young farmer had committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh in Prakasam district, ironically when the Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi was on the AP soil laying he bhoomi puja for the new state capital. The CM and other state heavyweights are all…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
S.M.Krishna seeks audience with Sonia Gandhi?
Congress affairs: what is there to talk in secret? Congress crisis needs to be debated openly and in great transparency! Congress government in Karnataka is not in the best of performing states! See the issues that are causing concern to the general public. First, Karnataka is one of the few states in the country under…
Svetlana Alexivich, Tunisian Quartet wins Nobel Prizes
Celebrating Democracy? Yes, but then is Indian democracy winning? This year’s Nobel Prizes for Literature and Peace! They are to vindicate democracy and democratic values in the modern times. So, every country calling itself democracy or a modern nation has to ask some tough questions.In India we seem to take pride in our democracy. Fine….
Use of computers in schools
Not as much as you imagined. How to correct deficiencies? Best ideas don’t come on their own. You have to push it from outside. As in politics, so in education. A brief news item on the use of computers in schools was shocking. In Karnataka, the most IT savvy state the use of computers, in…
Indian Public Schools
Do they live up to their ideals? Do they produce leaders for the betterment of the society? Just now I read in the Financial Times (London) that in the forthcoming London Mayoral election one of the contestants are a millionaire’s son and the other a bus conductor’s son. Zac Goldsmith, a millionaire environmental campaigner has…
Refugees’ crisis hits the world
What does this means for the world today? Tomorrow? Criticism on the US inaction or the controlled silence is enraging the entire world and it is likely soon to erupt in to even a wild cry and outrage. Already voices have come out calling this tragedy is a US making. The US invasion of Iraq,…
Doing business in India. Corruption is still the big problems.
Public perception and private realities! Indian states ranked in term of the ease of doing business Some surprises and shocking ground level realities The so-called advanced states, Maharashtra and TN with good track record in industrialisation find themselves dumped down in the rank with Gujarat retaining its number one rank with AP, the newly carved…
NITI AAYOG’s proposals to make transparent land laws?
It is time we draw investments in farming. It can be done only when we stop populist slogans in agriculture and also curb the corrupt politician’s hypocrisies! Vote-bank politics had ruined farming sector! The latest issue of The Economist magazine carries a special article on agriculture biodiversity (September, 2015). It makes an interesting reading and…