How things are going? There is some slackening, no doubt! The second UPA government shows lots of fatigue. For the simple reason that any second win like the one UPA had did, is a cause for worry. For one thing, there are the very same faces everywhere! So, that is there to get excited about?…
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…
Japanese Prime Minister’s visit to India
India should take it as a departure for a new policy for Asia Kuldip Nayar, the veteran journalist and a thoughtful Indian of some stature has written a New Year eve column in a newspaper. It is all about the current scene in South Asia, more so in India and Pakistan and by extension what…
India must create Asian Democratic Union
The new Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama is seen as diplomatically active. In India he spoke his mind, he urged India to comply with CTBT terms, stop nuclear proliferation and engage in nuclear disarmament and promote peace. India was polite and only diplomatic. India displayed lack of a positive vision. American economic decline might…
India’s approach
To Pakistan, China and Sri Lanka must have new perspectives! There is a widespread feeling in India about how things are going in politics and economics. Even in economics, things are not going in the right course. The government under Dr.Singh, in the phase UPA-II, is somewhat confused as far as its approach to many…
Tamil Nadu Congress affairs – regarding
Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, President, The Indian National Congress, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi- 100 110 Dear Mrs. Gandhi, Subject: Tamil Nadu Congress affairs-regarding I was glad to read that the Congress is going to celebrate the 125th years of its founding and a committee has been formed with Honble A.K.Antony as the chairman of the…
Barack Obama’s address to the joint session of the US Congress
What lessons for India? India’s democracy? US democracy is vibrant and politics there is truly democratic! Here, we have, yes, democracy. But our Chief Executive is who? Prime Minister or the Party President? Yes, India must become a strong democracy. India must become a great democracy. In the USA we see this happening. See the…
Contemporary Britain
by John McCormick, Palgrave macmillan, 2007 Decline of Britain? Yes, certainly, it looks like that! I was surprised and saddened to read this book. Surprised to see that Britain as most Indians know it for all these years, the Britain of the great empire is now shrunken into a small nation of just 6o million…