Big money and big corruption could destabilise governance and Weaken pro-poor programmes Rich-poor divide deepens. Poverty persists. India has problems. Why hide them, why neglect them! A democracy like India is susceptible to crises! A confident India on the global stage, asks a news headline in the London-Financial Times. This could be a left-handed compliment….
Category: General
Kamal Nath blasts the armchair advisers!
Takes on Montek Ahluwalia! The targets and the implications of his open talk can’t be missed! Kamal Nath has now spoken out. So openly. He is perhaps one of the first to reflect the frustrations of the aam aadmi with the way the UPA-II is dithering. The media, we mean ,the rather discerning media and…
It is only fair! Sharad Pawar must quit his ministerial post!
Sharad Pawar has been elected President of the International Cricket Committee (ICC).It is a great office and the post carries great honor as well as heavy responsibilities. As such, Pawar has met the Prime Minister and asked the PM to reduce his burdens the Cabinet Minister in charge of crucial portfolios. Agriculture, Food and Consumers…
From rural poverty to urban poverty
It is reported the Prime Minister has given the housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Kumari Selja two books by the visiting Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto. The books by the economist are called the poor man’s capitalist, the books by the economist who seems to have created urban housing the in the slums there…
A year of living indecisively?
It is showing off! Minister’s performance is a mix of inefficiency, evasiveness and sheer corrupt deals and much more! Yes, it is now openly admitted and acknowledged that it is no wiser and serves no purpose to blame the Prime Minister. The PM’s personal decency, no one questions. But everyone is very much concerned about…
What is accountability in a democracy?
Bhopal gas tragedy and the Indian government What the Prime Minister must be doing? Come before the public,seek an open and public apology! As the BP has done in the USA! Say sorry, deeply sorry! There is a huge growth and psychologically a great upsurge too in the mindset of the new middle classes. First,…
Letter to Mrs.Gandhi : TN Congress
Bangalore Date : 01.06.2010 Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi-100 000 Dear Mrs.Gandhi, Sub: Tamil Nadu Congress Alliance – regarding You must have seen the news report that the DMK’s highest policy making body met and deliberated the Rajya Sabha nominees and also about taking into its alliance the…
One year of UPA-II
Prime Minister after his press conference Faster developments, disasters, unwelcome events and much else! The latest series of Maoist-triggered mass killings tests the state There is urgency for new strategies to combat these senseless killings and to restore the state to its democratic core. This also calls for much soul searching and we have to…