Much of Nandy’s language is fine but the insights are not wisdom enough! Prof.Ashis Nandy is a high profile academic. He is variously described as psycho-analyst and political psychologist. I don’t really know much to make any distinction between the two disciplines. With this confession, let me say what he has done to clarify what…
V.K.R.V.Rao’s birth centenary celebrated!
What is the status of the Social Sciences in India? Why we have forgotten to teach the Political Science? Is it not the king of the social sciences? Gandhi, Nehru and Indira Gandhi legacy we talk about! But we don’t analyse and articulate their legacies or their political ideologies! Some peculiar Indian legacy! In Bangalore,…
The Congress makes moves for signing the nuclear deal!
Left Adventurism: time to call the bluff! The Left has really become a pain in the neck. The time has come to call its bluff. It is blackmailing the UPA government almost from day one. It imagines it has the key to unlock the world. Or, to the world’s wisdom! Such is its self-imagined arrogance…
Salute to Sam Bahadur!
Government of India must have conferred the Bharat Ratna Even on his deathbed, he deserved the highest honour! Sam Bahadur as he was lovingly and with much indulgence called by one and all is no more. Salute to his memory. He would be remembered for a long time to come. It is nice to remember…
Public Sector Banks ready with the debt waiver list!
PSBs badly managed! Inefficient, wasteful of customers’ time and resources! You can’t but revamp the co-operative credit institutions if you are serious about saving the farmers! Serving the farmers’ long-term interest! The Finance Minister must revamp a whole lot of banking and financial institutions! The debt waiver scheme is okey but not the end of…
Literature and culture
Elusive Terrain: culture and literary memory By Meenakshi Mukherjee, 200 pages, OUP, 2008 Now and then, it is nice to read a book by specialist on topics like literature and culture. Meenakshi Mukherjee is a veteran academic specialising in contemporary Indian literature. Both in the Indian languages and that is more important than just talking…
China produces record harvest for the 5th year in a two!
Almost more than double the size of food grains! What is the secret of the high Chinese farm production and productivity? We have so many experts and so many travellers to China. They must bring back some useful insights into the Chinese farming development strategy. It looks there is a heavily subsidised farming practice, there…
Manmohan Singh’s tenure will end when?
Congress party must become more democratic. If you live in Delhi, perhaps, you might become immune to any new winds of change. May be you would be a government servant or a politician, even a minister or an MP, from outside Delhi from one of the states. Or, otherwise, you might be one of those…