The working of Indian Parliament needs restoration of strict standards! To resort to physical obstruction, by muting the mike of the Leader of Opposition and also not allowing senior leaders like L.K.Advani not to intervene is the latest extremism that is not parliamentary decorum and protocol. It is a pity the Prime Minister showed…
Category: General
2014 elections!
Discontent with the Parliamentary system It would be fought on what issues? Food Bill is not an issue at all! Critical issues are about reforms! What reforms? Not anymore economic reforms! People would only laugh at it! With the current economic scenario! What all your reforms so far had led you to? Rupee fall continues…
The emerging political scenario in India
Is there a case for a federal or third front? 2014 elections seem to be the only talking point among the politicians and the political parties these days, it seems. Politics in India is a hot topic as the country is changing fast in socioeconomic terms. The economic growth is a hot topic too. In…
Indian society and politics!
An alternative analysis of India’s bhandralok society? A bourgeois society, of course! Well I am usually a very affable and genteel individual with lots of interests and curiosity but one only have to tolerate my cultural elitism!!! Elitism here in the sense of an ideal to be aspired for and yearned, a frame of reference…
The case for Third Front in Indian politics!
The political challenges and opportunities! We need new ideological articulations! So many distortions, so many contradictions! Democracy faces the dangers of a mobocracy! Even the political class seems driven by selfishness and greed! See even the ministers and their kin have indulged in large scale corruption and corrupt deals! Many cases are knocking at the…
Polity, economy and governance
A serious ideological articulation is needed! Prime Minister must imbue certain gravitas! His words must carry weight and conviction! Truth should be the touchstone! Ultimately, it is public opinion that would decide. The current set of players would be judged by the series of scams and scandals. The government might ignore things for the moment….
Is what Sonia Gandhi doing right?
Why appoint policemen, army men and officials as Governors? What about the democratic political culture? I was just reading the latest issue of the famed TLS (March-8-2013), The Times Literary Supplement, posted every week directly from London! This has had been my favourite reading material for long, almost the past more than half a century!…
Challenges before Indian democracy!
India, China and other democracies compared! A critical public opinion and a public awareness are called for. A few days out of the country and in Europe, more so in Italy, a country plagued by economic crisis and political instability, was a new experience and gave new perspectives. Seen from the old imperial Roman Empire…