Bangalore Date : 08.1.2008 Mrs.Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi Dear Mrs.Gandhi, Sub : Indian National Congress-its future Let me wish you a happy new year. I also wish you a speedy recovery of health. I am sure the series of reverses in the state elections, more so after the…
Sciences, the social sciences and humanities
Reason and Faith How to create a secular India, a secular democratic society? “Two extravagances: to exclude Reason, to admit only Reason” Blaise Pascal Modern life is as much about sciences and religion, as they ever was at any time. Also, reason and faith. They too are as much about our life, our everyday life…
What Sonia Gandhi must do?
Reward Prakash and Siddaramiah! All leaders from Karnataka, who are surrounding around Sonia Gandhi in Delhi, must be sent out to distant places with some new jobs! Trusting new comers is often better than trusting the old timers! Karnataka is in a political turmoil. Who has turned the once model state, much-admired for its many…
Inclusive growth?
Without agri sector being part of it? PM confesses it is a “peculiar puzzle”! The next general elections will be won or lost on farmer’s issues? The PM is clueless and might not care for! Yes, the next elections are looming large on everyone’s mind. The 54th National Development Council meeting saw enough to doubt…
Prof.Amartya Sen, Prof.Tapan Raychaudhury on rural India
Rural Indian can be saved, for sure! Rural India needs a new focus Institutional changes are called for There is no room for any complacency about rural India. There is much that needs to be done. To reduce the number of people under poverty trap. The National Commission on Enterprises in Unorganised Sector headed by…
How to draw people and resources to agriculture?
World economic slow-down affects Indian growth Food prices on the rise world over and so our food self-sufficiency goal at risk Climate changes can impact India’s agriculture prospects and we need a new agriculture strategy These are now the world scenario as far as India’s agriculture prospects are concerned. Yes, as for the economic growth…
How is our economy evolving?
Are we creating a just society? Or an unjust one? Are we a liberal democracy? A liberal society? Isn’t the Prime Minister confused about subsidies? Indian economy may be growing fast. But it is still an unjust and an iniquitous economy and society that we are pursuing in India. There are faulty economic policies, especially…
An unstable rural India emerging!
Why our villages remain as they are? Why our agriculture neglected? It is Gandhi-Nehru legacies of an idealistic or unrealistic world views? C.K.Prahalad, the management guru had put forward the thesis of “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”. Who the BOP? The poor, right? But then, where does the real rural India come in?…