Category: General

Why our leaders made themselves invisible? Sonia Gandhi wrongly advised! I terribly felt let down when on the day India celebrated Vande Mataram’s centenary, our leaders chose to hide themselves from public view! What message we sent out? India needs a robust type of leaders! Yes, when the President of India, the Prime Minister and…

My China connection is long and enduring! China is not an easy country to know and understand! What Narayanamurthy doesn’t tell! Yes, there is the latest news about India-China mutual suspicion persisting. No one tells the whole truth. That is diplomacy and in our national interest, everyone will tell you. That is okay. But what…

Are we all not becoming small men? Yes, certain thoughts seem to keep coming! Indians have some months or even days devoted to some rituals. August 15. January 26. October is reserved for Gandhi Jayanthi. And what is more funny is the fact that each passing year we seem to be having men and leaders…

Let us de-bureaucratize the delivery of public services! Menaka Gandhi in trouble!   Accuses Sonia Gandhi CBI shouldn’t be doing odd jobs! There is news that Maneka Gandhi, former Minister under the NDA and the current Member of Parliament has been booked by the CBI alleging that she committed irregularities in distributing funds to NGOs….

Just now we read that one Indian, that too a civil servant, Arvind Kejriwal, had been awarded the prestigious Magsaysay award for community leadership, for fighting for the Right to Information Act. To fight corruption in India is not a joke anymore, as everyday we witness the growth of corruption. Not a day passes in…

Ministers’ competencies come for criticism! The Bombay blasts had devastated the nation.200 dead, 700 injured in a few minutes in several places! This is too much.  But distressed the country much more is the sort of response and the sort of immediate explanations from the Government. Tavleen Singh, the veteran columnist, writing from her Bombay…

Vajpayee can stage a comeback as PM again! Vajpayee, 81, goes on diet! Jyoti Basu 93 and fit! Others, Incumbent Chief Ministers, Achuthanandan, 83, M.Karunanidhi, 83, are still active. So, Vajpayee, 81 also wants to become active in politics again, so he has started on diet and is shedding weight, already shed nine kilos, and…

Vajpayee can stage a comeback as PM again! Vajpayee, 81, goes on diet! Jyoti Basu 93 and fit! Others, Incumbent Chief Ministers, Achuthanandan, 83, M.Karunanidhi, 83, are still active. So, Vajpayee, 81 also wants to become active in politics again, so he has started on diet and is shedding weight, already shed nine kilos, and…