To Pakistan, China and Sri Lanka must have new perspectives! There is a widespread feeling in India about how things are going in politics and economics. Even in economics, things are not going in the right course. The government under Dr.Singh, in the phase UPA-II, is somewhat confused as far as its approach to many…
Category: General
Indira Gandhi Raj and after
After 25 years what we see? Degeneration of polity, a non-functioning democracy? Or a very alive and kicking oligarchy of moneyed class everywhere? I write this on the 25th death anniversary of India Gandhi’s death. It was a gruesome death and the anniversary truly brings out the various reflections and comments on the person and…
What is National Calamity Fund?
Can someone explain to the country? Karnataka flood havoc, once in hundred years disaster! Why the Centre and the Congress party shows such lethargy? Such take it or leave it attitude? A flying visit by Air Force plane and then a late announcement! The Congress party President visited Andhra Pradesh and she didn’t visit Karnataka,…
Indian democracy is turning into oligarchy?
How the Sonia-Singh dispensation has brought about a corrupt political class nexus with corporate power. P.Sainath in The Hindu says how the top two CEOs helped to save the Singh government survive the trust vote in 2008! What values drive our national vision? Anyone spelt out? Reflections on European political parties and elections There are…
What is happening in India?
Economic reforms, economic recovery or any sense of economic growth? In international arena? In foreign policy we have to move away or move forward from Sharm-el-Sheikh and Nuclear deal to other more pressing issues like wars, oil, energy, climate change and UN reforms and much more issues of the day. India has a place in…
The “Delhi Game”? That is what AP politics is all about?
Yes, that is how the new political forces centering around Mr.Jaganmohan Reddy are talking about in Hyderabad. This is just a warning signal to things to come in AP. Hopefully it is not a pattern that could engulf the Congress in Delhi. The point is that any great mind or a great leader or a…
An Open Letter to L.K.Advani
It is a great tragedy that a very senior and upright leader like you at this venerable age of 82 must find yourself in such a great dilemma. Whether to retire or not? From active politics? Yes, this is a great tragedy simply because you are in a dilemma. Age gives wisdom. That is the…
The decade we live through… This decade?
Do you know what this nameless decade? The Obama decade? The world is in crisis or in confidence? To understand the world we live in needs enormous knowledge and wisdom. The world is always in a sort of oddity. The world is not easy to live or easy to understand. The place is full of…