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…
West Bengal panchayat elections: violence and losses!
The great humbug of democratic power devolution! The rural poor continue to be neglected! Luckily, the West Bengal’s long-time claims of fame for its ideological purity stands exposed. The Left managed to brainwash a whole generation or two about its real intentions. It has never been a patriotic front. The CPI was better. The CPI…
Oxford academic programme for India’s development?
And a Chinese scholar who hasn’t visited India to lead the research team? Oxford University is doing some innovative programmes on India, it seems. We should wlecome it in India for such innovative programmes, planned and run from far off, from a vantage academic background must surely give us, in India in particular some rare…
Jaswant Singh’s secularism has disheartened me!
Not long ago on a visit to Delhi, I chanced upon Jaswant Singh, the former foreign minister under Vajpayee at the India International Centre, on the Lodi Road. It was nice to see a very urbane and erudite man, I thought. I had read his books, the latest being his deeply moving autobiography and I…
Asian nations and India
India must have its own well-defined foreign policy! India must have its own well-defined self-perception! China will always be our troublesome neighbour and big brother Mr.Pranab Mukerjee, our foreign minister made a recent visit to China. What did he do there and what did he achieve? Not much. There are criticisms in the press that…
India’s future vision
Sonia Gandhi has considerably lowered the image of India Manmohan Singh collaborated in this fall of India’s image and democratic credentials I think it was some time in the year 1965. I was then very much active in politics and I used to be in New Delhi off and on. I used to be associated…