What is a political reality is now entangled in a complex judicial web! It is time Mr.Arjun Singh, the HRD, minister makes way for a new comer! Indian education caught in a man-made crisis! Indian education system is something gigantic by world standards. It caters to a billion population. India is also a young country….
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Does wisdom come with age?
Our own leaders are not setting good examples!Changing values for this generation! Mira Nair’s film, Namesake, based on the novel of the same name by Jumpha Lahiri created a minor stir. It captured the present generation’s plight caught in an alien land! This generation in that sense is paying a heavy price for seeking the…
Will there be confrontations between the executive and the judiciary?
Indian judiciary is again in the news,as it was during the days in the early 70s when Indira Gandhi was very much making news. Mr.Kuldip Nayar,the veteran journalist has raised the issue of such a possible confrontation(Asian Age 30,April 2007) in the current-goings-on. Nayar in fact puts in so succinctly:just thirty years ago,to be exact…
President Kalam ready for a second term?
Lalu Prasad Yadav justifies Emergency rule! Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stands isolated? Politics as a calling is never kind to indecisive leaders! Democracies: strong and weak democracies Dictatorships: ideologically-based and military dictatorships Democracies are facing new challenges everywhere. In India there are challenges now for our democracy, as coalition partners, the Left and the casteist…
Changing political realities in India
Sonia Gandhi’s future political leadership hinges on the Congress party’s performance in the next round of Assembly elections. Sonia Gandhi’s political leadership is not her own making. It has been thrust on her by circumstances not even wildly imagined by her. Yet, politics is politics and here she is, now saddled with such awesome responsibilities….
Manmohan Singh naming Rahul Gandhi evokes speculations
Who will be the next Prime Minister in India? Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister, while campaigning in UP touched upon only on one theme. That is to remind the voters that Rahul Gandhi is their future! This he did while knowing well (or completely ignorant of the ground realities in the state) that the Congress…
CPM’s dilemma in West Bengal!
Its past sins visit its present predicaments? The Stalinist cult of “collectivized” agriculture, call it by what name you like, that had entrenched the idlers in the villages, panchayats and land holding patterns! Who said agriculture is not important? But the CPM in W.Bengal always touted its land reforms as the end of all socio-economic…
Corporate responsibility! Narayanamurthy in the eye of a storm!
Indian middle class stunned into silence! Members of the Karnataka Assembly and Legislative Council take exception to his remarks on national anthem and Cauvery water issue. Mr. N.R. Narayanamurthy, the Infosys founder and mentor, had never doubted his luck. He earned his billions, made his name and became an instant middle class icon. The new…