Category: General

Citizens voices be better organised in India in silent protests like the one just now held in Moscow and Madrid! Pious speeches were made by the leaders who lacked all legitimacy and credibility See the sort of symbolism the celebration carried! First, the President of India who is the very symbol and embodiment of the…

UP Assembly elections critical for the Sonia Gandhi survival So, the Election Commission’s petition to the President goes unresolved on date! So, the Prime Minister won’t interfere! In the Law Minister-Election Commission confrontation? So, Sonia Gandhi calls the shots? See, who are all the decisive spokespersons? All from the same source: 10, Janpath! We don’t…

Comparisons, contrasts and a competitive evaluation! China’s 70 rich delegates to Parliament! India’s 36 richest Member of Parliament! China’s richest support the party and the government! India’s richest too support the party and government? Some comparisons of what is happening inside China and in India! Yes, we seem to imagine and feel a bit complacent…

Supreme Court of India gives a landmark judgement on the PMO. Not on the Prime Minister himself! Future historians would decide what this landmark judgement has for the evolution of democratic practices in India. Will India become a role model for democracies in Asia and the Third World? Just now I read in The Economist…

Malaysian leader and architect of a modern Asian nation How history  will judge him? Megalomaniac? Or, a nation builder? Dr.Mahathir Mohamad  was Prime Minister of Malaysia for 22 long years. He surely transformed this multi-ethnic society of a feudal and backward country into a modern and cosmopolitan people with high living standards. Yet, there are …

Why he doesn’t speak out? Silence is not good for a leader and that took a Prime Minister. Being himself an economic expert and that too as an ex-World Banker of great reputation, surely he must have his own understanding of the great issues of the day. Economic growth  slips to 7 per cent! No,…

He or Team Anna must not stray into political issues! Then, they must join a political party or float a separate party! Parliamentary democracy has its own structure and imposes limitations of Agitations or individual action. Civil society is just one more forum for individual freedoms and freedom of expression, right!. Team Anna must display…

New questions and new uncertainties stare at our polity! Our Parliamentary democracy hides too many ethical and moral issues! A series of scams and scandals have impacted democracy and democratic practices into dangerous crisis mode. Not just the scams and scandals alone trigger the many other equally newer questions at the future of Indian democracy….