Category: People

What lessons for Indian bankers and the government? Bankers are never popular! Why this is so? One has to think for an answer. Now, the American banking system is in turmoil. The big Wall St.Bank, Lehman Brothers, collapsed. Those who are specialists in the banking and financial system know well that it is the critical…

His birth centenary year celebrated recently in Chennai and Coimbatore. The Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, has funded the centenary of this highly acclaimed Tamil writer in Coimbatore. I thought the Akademi President, Sri Sunil Gangopadhyaya, the great writer and poet, novelist and editor in the Bengali language and letters must have been invited to preside…

Media adviser to the Prime Ministers Development journalists, progandists and even Geologists! The recent passing away of H.Y.Sharada Prasad, the long-time media adviser to Indira Gandhi, gave rise to a spate of moving tributes to his memory. Prasad very much deserved all the fulsome praise for his remarkable qualities. We also knew him for a…

Upholder of Subramanya Bharati’s legacy We are deeply sorry to record that Prof.P.K.Sundar Rajan, husband of poet Subramanya Bharati’s grand-daughter, Dr.Vijaya Bharati passed away in Vancuar, Canada. This is the day of Subramanya Bharati’s birth day. Ironically, this day comes with the news of the poet’s close family member passing away. This news is so…

Amjad Ali Khan says Every state capital in India should have a cultural complex Like London’s South bank Centre or Carnegie Hall, New York One can’t say it any better! One can’t excel also the Western countries when it comes to culture and what it means culture promotion. Amjad Ali Khan is a great Indian…

Government of India must have conferred the Bharat Ratna Even on his deathbed, he deserved the highest honour! Sam Bahadur as he was lovingly and with much indulgence called by one and all is no more. Salute to his memory. He would be remembered for a long time to come. It is nice to remember…

Globalisation where India holds central place! Globalisation is now taken for granted. What is not made clear by our planners and policy makers are the fact that globalisation is neither 100 per cent possible or desirable. There are limits to globalisation. The point is whether we in India have realised the full dimensions of the…

Let him not reach for the moon! Let him walk on the M.G.Road! Mr.N.R.Narayanamurthy, the Infosys founder and the IT industry icon is justly lauded for his great achievements. He had in a way, transformed India single-handedly and as such he deserves a Bharat Ratna. If  he had not been so honoured so far, it…