This will do immense good for agri sector! Agriculture and industrial development is closely linked! The current good news about industrial pickup is good for agriculture! Key sectors, eight sectors, coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, steel, cement, electricity rose sharply to eight percent from 3.7 percent, in the first eight months. Agriculture thereby…
Category: Society
India, China and America
Current developments and likely challenges China is fighting corruption at home on an unprecedented scale. India is caught up with piling corruption cases against senior cabinet ministers. One high profile political corruption case, against the Bihar strongman, Lalu Prasad Yadav after fighting against all odds for some 17 long years in now lodged in jail,…
Syrian war and Indian diplomacy
Indian image diminished Under Manmohan Singh regime India must send out well-known public figures as ambassadors to USA/UK/Russia and China! Not these faceless bureuacrats, often retired and pensioned off anonymous figures Indian foreign policy? As good as none? Yes, the way India is getting its image diminished in the foreign capitals can be known only…
Latest war clouds on Syria
Surely, US President has to seek an international consensus! That only can save his legacy as a Peace President! India’s voice must be more positive and assertive! This sort of weak responses, often too late in the day, doesnt helps enhance India’s foreign policy legacy and our own sense of worth and meaning in an…
Our freedoms, our democratic rights!
Where are they? Not at the Moscow transit airport lounge nor at the London Heathrow! In the world we are living through! Nor at the ports, airports or airport lounges, as demonstrated by Edward Snowden and latest by the Brazilian journalist David Miranda! Why the world is so unconcerned? About our own freedoms or democracy?…
The changing World
What will be Obama’s legacy? What will be the state of freedoms for the people? The changing meanings of freedom in today’s world! A new ode to freedom likely to be sung for our time? In the year 1935, I remember and recall Prof.Harold Laski, the famous British political scientist, in those heady days of…
India on the world stage!
Where are the argumentative Indians? Fighting for our freedoms and democratic safeguards! Recent events on the international scene, military coup in Egypt, before that the Snowden affair that roused world public opinion in favour of giving asylum to him and India’s cowardly response and many other events including inside India, the Narendra Modi vs. Rahul…
Create a separate Ministry for Uttarkhand
Rehabilitation and Development Create a new post of Cabinet Minister! Station him or her in Dehradun! This is a national disaster! The Uttarkhand Speaker, Govind Singh Kunjwal, had put the loss of lives at 10,000 while the Union home minister puts it at 900. Whose figures the public would believe? Surely, the local man would…