How much the Indian public opinion will trust US promises? Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh had visited UK and later USA. UK visit didn’t produce any dramatic results, except he got a honorary degree from Oxford. In the USA he got the USA to help Indian in civilian nuclear energy tech. But India had to abandon…
Category: General
Disenchantment with PM sets in?
Our economy must be managed more efficiently! Two years of Dr.Manmohan Singh Prime Ministership seem to have brought home many weaknesses without much to talk about many highpoints. The management of the economy leaves much room for efficient and alert management. The Prime Minister might have imagined that 2 years in office is a time…
Tamil Nadu: rice politicians, poor people promised the moon!
Farmer’s debt write-off while the state ranks second in farm debt trap! The DMK had formed the government and in a show-off, the CM wrote off the farm debts, Rs 2 a kg of rice ..This is just a show-off, a cynical act to mislead everybody. The state is second in rank in percentage growth…
Naxalism is large number of states!
The government’s polices are a right package? Prime Minister had called for one Mr.M Shashidhar Reddy for talks on” the Naxalite menace ahead of the crucial chief ministers’ conference on Naxalism in the capital last month. Who is Mr.Reddy? He was appointed by Sonia Gandhi at the AICC as convener of the task force on…
States getting marginalized by Delhi?
Arbitrary party management! Unaccountable government? Issues for economic and social development. The recent Rajya Sabha nominations by the Congress party and also by parties like the JDS and the BJP factions in Karnataka and other such nominations from other states show clearly there is a shift from national consensus on such matters.
India’s nuclear deal
Many unanswered questions India is an open country and there is much vitality in the system to express fearless opinion. Only this fearlessness might perhaps give India its fuller strength in times of challenge and might compensate for what deficiencies we find in the present governance. There is an air of complacency and self-congratulation in…
New Karnataka government starts well!
A new optimism, high expectations mark the beginning. Mr.H.D.Kumaraswamy, the new Chief Minister of Karnataka has taken over power in a more daring and a politically complicated manner. Yes, in politics sometimes things happen not in all rational and transparent manners. But then political power is a reality. And now the new CM has taken…
Denial of freedoms by democratically elected leaders!
Police States in today’s India! A people can be traumatized by the fear of the state. Even now in states like Tamil Nadu under the Dravidian ideology, Shivsena in Maharashtra and also under Lalu in Bihar the “democratically-elected leaders have turned dictators by more subtle and pernicious methods. An awe and a fear of the…