Sonia Gandhi would head it Is it not a parallel PMO? Is the timing right? One more bureaucratic layer? One more bureaucratic hurdle for the people? Sonia Gandhi is already burdened with a heavy workload! Why not Rahul Gandhi heads the NAC? And the Youth Congress can monitor the government’s various development schemes and programmes….
Category: Society
India’s power sector: private players do a good job, prices to go up!
Private players seem to have effected a game changing development! They added almost half the total addition to power capacity. There are exciting developments in the power generating sector. It is the big role played by the private players, also called independent power producers, who totally alone produced half of the additional capacity in the…
Nitin Gadkari wants Ganga -Cauvery Link of national rivers!
He talks lots of practical sense! He must dilute more his temple rhetoric! Nitin Gadkari, the new president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be a refreshing new air in the Indian politics.Gone seems to be the era of L.K.Advani and his team. Gadkari dreams almost near total secular dream, expect his compulsions…
To defend democratic institutions and practices
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has lately been on his many foreign missions. He paid an official visit to the USA and had discussions with Obama. Then, he flew to Moscow where he met both the President and Prime Minister Mr.Putin. In the Russian scheme of things, it is perceived that Mr.Putin is more powerful and…
Where are the reformers now?
They have gone away? Or hidden under some bush! So, we are all now populists! Yes, that is how we have to describe the Delhi scene! There is more news or clamour now about the austerity drive launched by Pranab Mukerjee, the unflappable one man for all seasons! He travels economy class while some of…
After reading Prof.M.N.Srinivas
Family values I am just a bit embarrassed by this theme! Why? Just before I typed this page, I saw a new book with the title:”Family values”. By whom? By one Jain muni and Dr.Abdul Kalam! They don’t both have familes! Then, how they can talk genuinely? So too our other greats: Mahatama Gandhi, Nehru…
What Rahul Gandhi is doing now?
What is his karma? He can help electoral reforms? Help judicial reforms? Can help Parliamentary reforms? Not the least help reform the Congress party! There is much expectation from Rahul Gandhi after the recent elections which brought the Congress party to near absolute majority. This happened after 20 years and at a time when Rahul…
Power struggles within the BJP
Younger age group captures the levers of power! Indian democracy is real or just a facade of capturing power By undemocratic Methods? Indian democracy is becoming stronger? In what sense? Is there democracy in the major parties? Yes, the Congress got a near majority and is in power. But the party is not genuinely democratic….