Do you know what even the respected Hindu newspaper group business daily newspaper calls the Prime Minister’s recent speech at the first national conference of Krishi Vigyan Kendras? “These motherhood sentiments”! These pious hopes create ennui”! The PM called for a Second Green Revolution! If he was not the Prime Minister the green lobby would…
Category: General
So, in New Delhi, no top bureaucrats retire!
They get new fancy jobs at four times their old salaries! Yes, this is one of the best kept secrets in New Delhi corridors of power! Once you get a government job, you become a new person or become a slave for your life? It all depends on how you look at life. As for…
After Bihar elections : Stable Coalition government in New Delhi possible?
Bihar Assembly elections sent shock waves in New Delhi. Lalu Yadav’s style of politics saw an end. Now, will Lalu and Paswan continue as Cabinet Ministers? The Supreme court judgement on Bihar Assembly dissolution might knock out some VIPs from cosy existence? A new phase has emerged in coalition politics in Delhi. Dr.Manmohan Singh was…
Mamata Banerjee’s political violence and vandalaism!
Tatas car project a prestigious issue for the West Bengal government Mamata Banerjee is variously called, the stormy petral, Didi and the various names, both complementary and also negative. Somehow, the Trinamul Congress leader is known for her unpredictability and her party is also known for its changing political alliances. Sonia Gandhi tried and failed…
The political and economic agendas of parties
The Congress and the CPM have a long history and tradition. The BJP and the chauvinistic, casteist parties thrive more on populist agendas The easy part is the political agenda! The difficult part is the economic agenda. Political agenda has its noble ideals as well as some anti-modern, anti-historical, narrow, and chauvinistic and even sometimes(or,…
Democracy and dynastic politics
Elected Prime Minister, limiting Prime Minister’s terms, establishing democratic norms in parties are critical for sustainable democratic traditions. UK and USA are taken to be the most perfect forms of democratic countries. In the world itself, now it is estimated that out of some 190 odd countries nearly 133 or so countries are democracies, however…
Dreams remain-Letter to Sonia Gandhi
A vision for India, yes! What divides India? What unites India? I wrote a letter to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. Rather a long letter. A letter in her capacity as the President of the Indian National Congress. The party is 121 years old and when I read a book, the past one hundred and more years…
India to revive NAM? Better live with the new realities!
India needs a whole new world view! PM at Havana and the usual anti-American rhetoric won’t make news anymore. After 5 years of 11/11 the world today is a wholly new place! Foreign affairs are first and foremost recognition of the global realities. To adjust constantly the emergent realities! To play the role in war…