What Mr.Sharad Pawar is doing? Where the PM’s expertise? Do these gentlemen and the hon’ble lady or ladies care for the poor and the rural people? Now, everyone in the government and outside knows that there is a food-prices-driven inflation and there is an element of helplessness and a lot of desparation. Rightly so. So…
Distortion of the Indian polity reaches unacceptable levels!
High Constitutional Authorities devalued! All Constitutional proprieties bypassed! All for whom? In whose interest? Such questions come at once when we see how steadily and unmistakably our great Constitution is being subverted from inside the very system. Prime Minister downsized and almost insulted by his senior colleagues! We have reached a stage in our political…
500 farmers die since 2001 in Kerala agriculture!
Kerla paddy farmers commit suicide! Man-made suicides,thanks to CPI(M) ideology! Introduce private sector into paddy harvesting operations! CPI(M) wing farm labour union prevented paddy harvesting machines deployed for harvesting standing paddy crop in the kuttanad region of Alapuzha region. The region is the hub of paddy farming in the state and this season,the state witnessed…
Fighting inflation, yes!
And then, what to do? Call in a corporate icon like Captain Gopinath to streamline the foodgrains management and rationalise the price of essential commodities! There is a 40-month high inflation at 7 and above per cent. There is a great deal of tension in the government. The Cabinet is divided as to what to…
Deploy IT tools to solve peoples’s problems at the grass roots.
Appoint Nandan Nilekani as Prime Minister’s special adviser! Call Dr.Devi Shetty of Narayan Hirudalaya to make telemedicine part of the primary health centres! Revamp the public services in the Indian villages! Revenue depts. are the age-old institutions. Panchayat raj is with us for so many years. Rural health services are in total decline and utterly…
Gandhigram Rural University, Dindigal-Kasturba Gandhi Endowment Lecture-regarding
His Excellency Sri Surjit Singh Barnalla, Governor of Tamil Nadu, Raj Bhavan, Guindy, Chennai Dear your Excellency, Sub: Gandhigram Rural University, Dindigal-Kasturba Gandhi Endowment Lecture-regarding I had the honour of being invited to deliver the Kasturba Gandhi Endowment Lecture at the prestigious Gandhigram Rural University, near Dindigal, Madurai on 22nd Feb, 2008 The lecture and…
President ship of the Congress for 10 long years
Mrs.Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi Dear Mrs.Gandhi, Today is March 14 and it nice to write to you and congratulate you for having completed the President ship of the Congress for 10 long years. This is a great accomplishment by any measurement and in politics this is something unusually…
From land reforms laws to land grabbing realities!
Who talks of land reforms these days? Not even the Communists who were once associated with this piece of legal fiction! Yes, land reforms have become a piece of legal fiction only. The reality is otherwise! Today, the trend is land-grabbing! Today, you can grab as much private and public land as you can, as…