Discontent with the Parliamentary system It would be fought on what issues? Food Bill is not an issue at all! Critical issues are about reforms! What reforms? Not anymore economic reforms! People would only laugh at it! With the current economic scenario! What all your reforms so far had led you to? Rupee fall continues…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Latest war clouds on Syria
Surely, US President has to seek an international consensus! That only can save his legacy as a Peace President! India’s voice must be more positive and assertive! This sort of weak responses, often too late in the day, doesnt helps enhance India’s foreign policy legacy and our own sense of worth and meaning in an…
Obama’s silences intriguing!
Not good for the world! Not good for him either! Are we all living in a surveillance-ridden world? Inside India too, there are worrisome trends! That could trip India into unexpected territories! US President Barack Obama is now in the mid-term of his second term! Increasingly, he seems to be more silent that he used…
Our freedoms, our democratic rights!
Where are they? Not at the Moscow transit airport lounge nor at the London Heathrow! In the world we are living through! Nor at the ports, airports or airport lounges, as demonstrated by Edward Snowden and latest by the Brazilian journalist David Miranda! Why the world is so unconcerned? About our own freedoms or democracy?…
Tariq Ali, you know
The enfant terrible of the Sixties England A Romantic hero of the youth of that European period He continues to play that role, that of keeping up that radical, even a sort of anarchist role in our times. He was in India recently. He spoke on the contemporary world he knows best. Tariq Ali is…
The changing World
What will be Obama’s legacy? What will be the state of freedoms for the people? The changing meanings of freedom in today’s world! A new ode to freedom likely to be sung for our time? In the year 1935, I remember and recall Prof.Harold Laski, the famous British political scientist, in those heady days of…
Letterto Tridivesh Singh Maini
E-mail:tridivesh80@hotmail.com Dear Tridivesh Singh Maini, I was pleased to read through your op-ed page article in the Hindu dated June 25, 2013. You have done a good service by taking up the tough job of articulating the possible scenario in forming a third front or a federal front. I had read through your piece for…
Letter to editor@ft.com
Sir, I read Ft regularly. The latest issue of Saturday July 13, 2013 I read on my blog as well in print the next day in India. On Amertya Se and Jean Dreze, I am afraid what Ramchandra Guha says is only partly relevant and the rest is readable for what it is worth. The…