Sonia Gandhi would head it Is it not a parallel PMO? Is the timing right? One more bureaucratic layer? One more bureaucratic hurdle for the people? Sonia Gandhi is already burdened with a heavy workload! Why not Rahul Gandhi heads the NAC? And the Youth Congress can monitor the government’s various development schemes and programmes….
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Vikraman, the Tamil literature icon!
Living Tolstoy of modern Tamil literature! I came back to my office in Bangalore after nearly ten days in the countryside. As usual I met and interacted with a wide variety of people, political and social activists and writers, poets and NGO enthusiasts and others. Since, my home is in Coimbatore where the big state…
Corporate power corrodes democracy?
Yes, says Barack Obama! Corporate power corrodes Indian democracy? Yes, notice the recent events! N.R.Narayanamurthy’s Nasscom Committee on Corporate Governance! A time of great many ironies and contradictions! Yes, we seem to be living at a time of great many ironies and contradictions, to say the least. The Headlines Today TV news channel broke the…
Democracy, development and security!
PM’s US visit seems a prosaic affair! The Prime Minister went on a 7 day foreign trip. This was on security issues, inside and outside India. Inside, the masscare of 76 CRPF jawans created a national furore. Shashi Tharoor IPL scandal hit in a big way. PM’s US visit seems a prosaic affair. Indian diplomacy…
An open letter to Sonia Gandhi
The Congress President should visit the State Congress Headquarters whenever she visits Tamil Nadu. We wrote to Mrs.Sonia Gandhi a few days ago a letter in this regard. We are glad she has obviously seen to have responded. She visited Satyamurthy Bhavan on 13 March 2008. First time a Congress President has done this! Bangalore…
Manmohan Singh : Nominated PM in Parliamentary Democracy
A cowardly world we are creating? The new dictators might be terrorists or the nuclear adventurers? Time to look at our democratic pretensions very critically! The world thought that after 1989,the world would turn on to a new civilization. The “end of history” and the dawn of a liberal democracy, the world believed with confidence….
Republic Day Speeches
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh call for best and brightest people to politics What is really happening today? Who should make the first moves, so to say? Our Republic is not reflecting the socio-economic visions yet. Crisis of faith and legitimacy Governance is not just a mediating role of the rule of law Governance is…
India must create Asian Democratic Union
The new Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama is seen as diplomatically active. In India he spoke his mind, he urged India to comply with CTBT terms, stop nuclear proliferation and engage in nuclear disarmament and promote peace. India was polite and only diplomatic. India displayed lack of a positive vision. American economic decline might…