India needs a refreshing change! Infant mortality rate highest in India? What about school years? The rise in corruption scandals? Now, the claims of the PM and FM about rise in growth rate in three years! And the tired rhetoric of inclusive growth! UN Human Development report 2013 Yes, India has done well but not…
Category: Society
Migration of workers and professionals!
Globalisation’s many positive gains! Migration has changed Indian employment pattern? Why, the migration scene has impacted the Indian society, the middle classes in many perceptible and imperceptible say. There has this aspect of Indian economic development that has not received much attention. The migration of students and professionals from the developing countries to the developed…
Oil and gas exploration industry!
Where Jaipal Reddy failed? Will Veerappa Moily make quick decisions? Why Jaipal Reddy moved out of the from Petroleum Ministry? No point blaming the corporate sector clout. We need quick and positive decision making and also drawing FDI in the sector in a big way! Let us be mature and take pragmatic decisions. Reliance Industries'(RL)…
Poverty is surely declining in India?
Why our honble MPs got so angry with the Planning Commission experts? Still we need economists and highbrow theorists! Here are two experts! Prof.Ashish Bose, my friend A demographer and an activist! Another, very highbrow, Esther Buffalo of MIT! It was nice to see an interview with Prof.Ashish Bose in the Business Standard the other…
The new coal scam? The damage? Or Damage controlled?
No, not yet, says the CAG letter to the PM! CAG: Govt lost Rs.10.7 l cr by not auctioning coal blocks! Industry captains must speak out! The great strength of Indian democracy is that it is quite alive and kicking, so to say. The media, print media at any rate is very bold and forthcoming….
Mood of the Nation Opinion Poll, January 2012
The next Prime Minister? The next President? The India Today-ORG Mood of the Nation Poll, conducted in January 2012 gives, as far as it goes, a sense of direction to what India would be looking like in 2014, the year of the next Lok Sabha poll. If an election is to take place today, it…
Inclusive growth?
What does it mean and how does it matter? All governments indulge in talk talks and do little! See the statistics! Credit to the poor/farmers! Institutions to cater to the poor people, small men and women and self-employed persons are very weak in India in spite of the talk talks on inclusive growth. Delhi is…
India a democracy? Or, an oligarchy?
Supreme Court is the only hope? Our oligarchs, the big names tumble down! Media is timid! Black money in untraceable, though 50% of the GDP is in black, says expert researchers and others. TV channels and no less the print media bring out these corruption-tainted politicians, the corporate bigwigs and sulking other politicians are hoping…