Mrs.Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi Dear Mrs.Gandhi, Today is March 14 and it nice to write to you and congratulate you for having completed the President ship of the Congress for 10 long years. This is a great accomplishment by any measurement and in politics this is something unusually…
Category: Letters
Open letter to Priya Ranjan Das Munshi!
Doordharshan under him very boring! Private channels do much public service They have citizen journalists, expose corruption, injustices etc Tehelka is the high-watermark of private service capabilities that serve the larger public interest. What public service broadcasting DD does? DD is supposed to be a public service broadcasting organisation. What public service it renders, now?…
Visva Bharati and others
His Excellency Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Governor, Raj Bhavan, Kolkatta Dear Your Excellency Gandhi, Sub: Visva Bharati and others Hope you remember me. Today I read in the Kolkatta daily, Telegraph, about the incidents at Santiniketan. Immediately I spoke to my friends there and got some idea of the happenings. Since I had earlier visited the place…
Letter to Dr.Karan Singh, MP
Dr.Karan Singh M.P., Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi Dear Dr.Karan Singh, Hope you remember me. Here is another letter for you to read. In fact, I have attached a copy of the letter I wrote to Mrs.Sonia Gandhi on the state of the Congress and the government. Now, as for the current peregrinations on the…
Indian National Congress-its future
Bangalore Date : 08.1.2008 Mrs.Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi Dear Mrs.Gandhi, Sub : Indian National Congress-its future Let me wish you a happy new year. I also wish you a speedy recovery of health. I am sure the series of reverses in the state elections, more so after the…
An Open Letter to L.K.Advani
Define your vision for India! L.K.Advani, 80, is now named by the BJP as the next Prime Minister, if the party wins the next elections. That’s fine. In a democracy, after all, we must have an Opposition party, a strong enough and a united Opposition that is part of any vibrant democracy. Our polity is…
AK.Chettiar, the man to make the first documentary film on Mahatama Gandhi when Gandhi was very much alive!
Dear Meenakshi Mukeherjee, I read with great your book review in the Economic and Political Weekly for June 2-8 2007 on A.K.Chettiar’s reminiscences of making a documentary on Mahatama Gandhi. In fact, the late A.K.Chettiar was my long time friend and mentor. I knew him for a fairly long time, since my college days in…
Philosophy for thinking people!
Philosophy is about our faith, our beliefs systems! We can’t live and breathe without philosophy, you know? If not, it is time we know. Our education’s disabilities are many. One is not to have given us a belief system, a faith in our own terms of living. We don’t live, we just exist! That is…