Yeddyurappa must think big and bold! He must drop any partisan agenda! Give co-operative institution full autonomy! No interference, please! Karnataka Milk Federation elections raise issues Co-operatives institutions must enjoy great autonomy Yeddyurappa must ensure great care and observe norms in good governance Yeddyurappa is doing well, in fact very well. We can’t attest to…
Category: People
HDFC chairman
Deepak Parekh must be made the Planning commission chairman! Narayanamurthy or Nandan Nilekani must reform the electoral system! Yes, the Manmohan Singh team is in place. That doesn’t mean that everything with the economy or the polity will go smooth. Already we see the consonance and the dissonance! The Presidential address to Parliament was full…
New Manmohan team will have a purposeful sail?
The euphoria dips fast! Small minds and small considerations seem to create problems? Yes, not even the ink dried as they say. Within the first days of Parliamentary session, we saw the lineup of issues and the minds. The BJP raked up the defence deals and the middle men with a link at the PMO.Though…
Reading Stanley Wolpert’s Gandhi
Both insightful and also depressing! Stanley Wolpert is a distinguished professor and scholar and had written some of the more in-depth books on Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah. All these three figures have shaped the destinies of the Indian subcontinent. So, wolpert’s three books have become classics and anyone interested in India…
David Miliband visit to India is a disaster!
The brash young Englishman and the cringing Indians. India has many lessons to unlearn and learn! Let us stand up and talk more boldly and confidently! Mr.Ratan Tata didn’t do India proud by welcoming the British Foreign Secretary at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai and honouring such an immature man just for the fact…
Public mood remains restless
The Home Minister has resigned. One Chief Minister has resigned. But is this enough? What about the bureaucrats and officials – from National Security Adviser downwards – whose actual job it was to act and prevent this tragedy. Its more important that they are made accountable if this system needs to be truly overhauled. The…
K.Chinnappa Bharathi, Tamil writer
What is progressive literature today? Many of Chinnappa Bharathi’s own friends and vast readership might not know the one important fact about this distinguished Tamil writer of progressive views. He is a committed Communist and a Marxist and had given the best of his years to the Party work and propaganda. What is the one…
For the cause of India!
I was nurtured by Pandit Nehru! I have all the credibility to certify genuine leaders and Congressmen! Just now I have read through a book titled, “The 100 best speeches of the pre-Independence India” edited by one D.C.Sharma(Rupa),2007. The book was a comeback for me. I went through the momentous years from the day of…