Category: General

Presidential elections in India have always been marked by political controversies! Abdul Kalam’s chances for a re-nomination looks slim to impossible! India’s President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam is soon to lay down office. The political parties have already taken up the issue of the next Presidential candidate in all its seriousness with an eye on the ongoing…

“Trust me” stance of the Prime Minister doesn’t impress the Indian opinion. On such critical issues like US- Indo nuclear deal, Indo-Pak negotiations or China or Sri Lanka hasn’t won friends and supporters for him. The PM is relying on select officials and has no stomach for educating public opinion. An M.K.Narayanan, Sivashankara Menon or…

100 responses from the intellectuals and writers The British magazine for writers and intellectuals asked its contributors the question: Left versus right defined the 20th century. What’s next? 100 Prospect contributors responded (Prospect March 2007) and what are their responses like? There is evident pessimism! Almost nobody expects the world better in the coming decades,…

There must be an explanation for the CPM cadre’s brutality! Self-conceit and arrogance? Stalinism’s legacy? Mao’s madness? Call it by any name. The Communists in West Bengal have exposed their limitations when it comes to economic development through conventional means. Police firing and the killings of the poor is the last thing they imagined. What…

Can Karunakaran do  what others have failed to do? Mr.K.Karunakaran,88,is an old Congress man of the vintage years.His best days were when he made himself an unapologetic courtier of the late Indira Gandhi when she rode to power.Later when she tried to consolidate her power by splitting the Congress party in 1969 and later  when…

India needs a thinking Prime Minister, an activist Prime Minister! India at the cross-roads! The UPA government is past its mid-term. Already there are tremors in Delhi after the two successive defeats in Punjab and Uttaranchal. The BJP is on the revival trail. There is depression in the Congress camp; there is jubilation in the…

What chance it will make a difference to our lives? “A society of sheep in time will beget a government of wolves”  Why a French philosopher said so? The Right to Information Act (RTI) enacted and now in force gives the citizens to demand all the information from the government depts. so that the citizens…

So many scandals only show the vibrancy of the system! In spite of the series of latest scandals, one minister gone and another seems on his way out, it looks our democracy is emerging a sustainable system. With the various organs of the state playing a more activist role. In particular the media has been…