Category: General

Governance issues in the State as well as in New Delhi Uncomfortable political illegitimacies and nonsense economics! Dr.Manmohan Singh might talk of 8 per cent growth. Finance Minister too might holds forth on such grand themese. But when it comes to political alliances, the PM and the FM and others have to eat humble pie!…

Hinders economic development. The Economist magazine, true to its verbal gymnastics, had called India’s much talked about employement guarantee programme (or just a promise on date?) as India’s poor law! In the same typical imperial mindset the magazine goes on to elaborate its wisdom as it see it. Of course what the Singh government is…

Why we worship the bureaucrats, even the most corrupt kinds? Debureaucratising Indian society is the way to a free and open society! Babus may tire, but not retire! Delhi is crowded by retired bureaucrats! PM must help to give room for new faces, new talents! Can a country of India’s size and stature be run…

Manhattan Indians and ‘illegal Indian aliens’! We read so often about tapping the talents of Indians living in America. Dr.Manmohan Singh, our Prime Minister had in his wisdom constituted one more Commission, this time, it is Knowledge Commission! High sounding? Yes, it is! What is it by the way? No one knows for sure. It…

The State makes news for the wrong reasons! Turkey was once said to be the sick man of Europe. Likewise, can we ask:which Indian state can qualify as the sick state of the country? There are now surveys of states and also selection of Chief Ministers as the best and the worst! But there are…

West Bengal Chief Minister offers a model for Kerala politicians. The Kerala Left politicians are dreaming to capture power in the next Assembly elections. But Kerala politics is not one of black and white as in Bengal. Here the coalition politics have many shades of alignments and re-alignments. The question is: do the Communists in…

Nitish Kumar begins with much goodwill Bihar, it looks like breathing free after a long time. It is the poorest state and also the most problematic. The social inequalities and inequities have been much commented upon. The Naxalites hold and the role of the Ranvir Sena are the two faces of rural violence and also…

Governance norms vs political survival. Too many compromises with the legitimate political and governance norms have slowed down much of the effective delivery of social benefits to the farmers and the poor. This political commentary, readers might know, is posted on the weblog and so what I write mostly ,more so on the international issues…