What is progressive literature today? Many of Chinnappa Bharathi’s own friends and vast readership might not know the one important fact about this distinguished Tamil writer of progressive views. He is a committed Communist and a Marxist and had given the best of his years to the Party work and propaganda. What is the one…
Ranga Shankara theatre festival
A remarkable Kannada book publishing house Karnataka’s literary heritage multi-faceted! Literature, music, theatre unparallel! It is a happy news that the latest Bharat Rathna went to the legendary Hindustani musician, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. With this recognition and also with the announcement of Kannada as a classical language, the state emerges to the front rank as…
Will Obamaism catch on with the Indian politics?
What real change India would get from the Congress and the BJP parties? In the next elections? Will the Congress and the BJP go for real change in politics? Economics? Or, social sector reforms? Barack Obama has done the world proud. He is not only the first black president of the USA, his youthfulness, his…
India is being torn into ethnic strife of a new violent phase!
Manmohan Singh’s engagement with Washington! The unintended consequences! Manmohan Singh goes to Japan and China Now, once again a trip to Washington’s on the agenda. Perhaps, a last farewell to a friend who loves India and the Indian people love him so much, we mean George Bush! The time is rather grim for the world….
Paul Krugman’s economic future: cities to grow at the expense of rural hinterland?
So, what future for rural India? Imaginative transition from rural to urban India calls for new talents, imagination, and experience! The Nobel Prize for Economics, this year! This has gone to predict the growth of cities! What does that mean for the future of agriculture and farming as an occupation? This year’s Nobel Prize has…
For the cause of India!
I was nurtured by Pandit Nehru! I have all the credibility to certify genuine leaders and Congressmen! Just now I have read through a book titled, “The 100 best speeches of the pre-Independence India” edited by one D.C.Sharma(Rupa),2007. The book was a comeback for me. I went through the momentous years from the day of…
L.K.Advani, leader of Opposition
Shouldn’t use intemperate language! Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was in the USA and he met President George Bush at the White House. For some reasons, the Indian Prime Minister, who is otherwise always very careful about his language lost control or otherwise and blushed before the American President. In a spontaneous outburst he said to…
Mass education? Only Governments can do!
Class education? Yes, only society decides! Education is an all-time favourite topic. ” Education for all” is a Millennium Development Goad! Yes, there is a terrific effort towards this noble goal. Realistically speaking, the 11th Plan is spending Rs.34,000 crores for education. A big jump! In the 10th Plan, the percentage of education allocation was…