What is the status of political ideology in Indian politics today? Congress gets a near majority! BJP broken up, the Left broken in West Bengal, wiped out in Kerala Dravidian fanatical fringe and Trinamul obduracy tilting at the Congress windmill What ideological clarity drives the Indian polity’s strengths and value system? Are we a more…
New Manmohan team will have a purposeful sail?
The euphoria dips fast! Small minds and small considerations seem to create problems? Yes, not even the ink dried as they say. Within the first days of Parliamentary session, we saw the lineup of issues and the minds. The BJP raked up the defence deals and the middle men with a link at the PMO.Though…
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….
Why talk only of economic reforms?
We need political reforms too1 To make the distribution of wealth and also to create equal opportunities. The National Election Waft is a body of a thousand and odd NGOs started as an election monitoring body which itself was started by the Association for Democratic Reforms(ADR).This body filed a PIL before the Supreme Court in…
Barack Obama’s Middle East speech
India’s response not enough! India has just concluded a major election, the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. This is India’s 15th major election and the results of the election proved beyond doubt, if there is any doubt or any doubters, both domestic and foreign, that India has emerged and is becoming a fairly mature democratic society…
This month of school exam results/IIT entrance test results!
This middle class obsession must be moderated! Education is all about finding out about own personality and developing the same! Let the government introduce a one year of national social service! A gap year before students enter college would make a great deal of change in the Indian education. Indian education has done much good…
Reading Stanley Wolpert’s Gandhi
Both insightful and also depressing! Stanley Wolpert is a distinguished professor and scholar and had written some of the more in-depth books on Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah. All these three figures have shaped the destinies of the Indian subcontinent. So, wolpert’s three books have become classics and anyone interested in India…
Youth power wins this election? Who are this youth?
TV channels overdid their jobs! They played up the youth victory theme rather too far and too unbalanced way! Who are these youths are? They are neither from the poor or the middle classes. They are from the privileged families. Let us see what this means for the emergence and the evolution of democracy in…