The PM hasn’t allayed India’s fears about American defence relations! Fears about Indo-US co-operation on our strategic defence not allayed by the PM and his advisers. The Indo-US nuclear deal has created a deadlock for the UPA. The Left is posturing. Everyone who knows the history and the mentality of the Indian Communists says that…
India after 60 years of freedom
India must articulate our own global vision and an independent strategic broad picture Indo-US nuclear deal is clearly for India’s advantage So,why this running away from realities and our weakness for factionalist politics? It is a great pity that after the Left threat to withdraw support for the government,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh still chose to…
Women empowerment in India
How to assess Sonia Gandhi’s leadership? Kiran Bedi can’t have the cake and eat it too! While serving in uniform, you can’t play a Medha Patkar or a Mamata Banerjee! Women empowerment is taken, mistakenly,as putting women in political office! This is just an empowerment by accident! The “widows syndrome”! In the Western societies women…
America needs India’s strategic friendship
India should respond magnanimously and with confidence in the future! The USA is a super power not in the ordinary sense of the term in which it is always couched and understood.To understand the current world developments,the globalisation and all that we need to have a look at the past,a look at history of the long …
Can Dr.Manmohan Singh take India into the 21st century world?
Thoughts on the new crisis that grips the Prime Minister The US,in alliance with UK,still think of winning the war in Iraq.That is the assumption.But major powers, the G-8 and other powers,think otherwise.The point is that to fight the war against terror is also fraught with problems,as the terrorists constitute an invisible state!So,America needs many…
PM takes up agriculture only when other difficulties face him!
Agriculture, a soft topic or soft target? The magic 4 per cent farm growth will elude the Prime Minister,we warn!The Independence day came and the Prime Minister could not feel free to speak! Yes,he was faced with a major crisis!The Left allies in the UPA threatened to withdraw support for his government on the Indo-nuclear…
Tirupati, Kalahasti and the Chandragiri fort
Mass tourism is welcome! But provide more infrastructure! Preserving heritage sites,visiting the monuments and appreciating the same is what constitutes man’s search for identity,a link with his past. Heritage education, cultural heritage must be integrated with the religious and spiritual quest of the pilgrimage in the new age of mass tourism.Some thoughts. India has a…
Thoughts on 60 years of independence!
Time for introspection!We are celebrating 60 years of Independence! What thoughts grips the minds of citizens?Of course India has come a long way. Our first five year plan had only Rs.20,000 crores as the plan expenditure!We had just 25 universities!The best salary of the best brains,be it ICS or the corporate CEOs then were mere peanuts!Today,the…