Experts and political leaders of the people! Why a new finance minister not appointed? What is the hitch? Why the Prime Minister is keeping so many portfolios? India just now, at the New Year eve, is inundated, so to say, with too many experts, economist of repute! Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel winner and professor of economics…
What a fall! What a cruel joke!
Where our universities are going? Prime Minister’s hopelessness! He calls industry captains to give the government creative ideas! The Indian government has become almost non-functional! If that is a harsh expression, then, readers can give us some other version of the present hopelessness that marks the Indian higher education scenario. Prime Minister is the very…
Tariq Ali’s new book on Pakistan
Who is the most famous Pakistani today? You can have your own take, as for me, it is Tariq Ali, the one-time revolutionary and a life-long dissident. Yes, I knew him in a sort of way, though I haven’t met him. He was junior to me at Oxford, he came there much later. But Tariq…
Public mood remains restless
The Home Minister has resigned. One Chief Minister has resigned. But is this enough? What about the bureaucrats and officials – from National Security Adviser downwards – whose actual job it was to act and prevent this tragedy. Its more important that they are made accountable if this system needs to be truly overhauled. The…
Online edition of this magazine launched!
Readers across the globe now have access to latest information in agriculture and related fields! Yes, thanks to the spread of Internet and along without our website (agricultureinformation.com) now in its 8th year of operations, there is a huge reservoir of demand for latest information in agriculture and related fields. This need we now address…
India needs separate Finance Minister!
Also a desperate course correction of the PM’s one-track approach! There is a clear disconnect with rural India as far as the UPA government is concerned. Yes, there are schemes like rural employment guarantee scheme. So are other schemes focused on the “distribution” of benefits to the rural mass of people? Yes, all the social…
Terror attacks: More heads must roll!
People must get at the truth fully! PM’s talk of rate of growth, convening of teams and a lackluster image no inspiration! Terror strikes India in a massive way! Shakes our confidence and our collective response needs some hard questioning! Is the government as it has responded enough of a guarantee for future security? It…
Wars and peaces!
What chances for freedoms today? Human rights ensured or violated in today’s world? Sunny summer? Or, a winter of discontent or despair? Thoughts on our freedoms and security! The day and the time when the leaves glow yellow and golden when the sun shines! Where are our freedoms today? What are the freedoms we…