PM’s candidate is welcome! What are the issues, if any? Opposition leaders had met the Government representatives and the common candidate is unlikely. If the past practice is any guide, there would be a Government candidate, possibly a BJP veteran or someone who could win the majority vote which is likely to gather momentum as…
Indian agriculture in a crisis phase
What can be done, both in the short and the long-term? Short-run solutions are obvious. Give farm loans waiver! Easy to say, difficult to implement! This demand and also conceding the demand is now more a political decision and it is for the Prime Minister, more than for anyone to take a final decision. Farmers…
Press in India, free or weak!
Press freedom a concern for the elite only? A new head for the Broadcasting machinery appointed! A new maturity and a new liberal approach to press freedom make India a stronger democracy! We saw the news item on the RedInk awards for India’s best journalists! Media freedom is more talked about than upheld. In most…
An old book, a classic – About Education, 1942, by C.E.M. Joad
Why education is boring and dull! It needn’t be! We, Indians are accustomed to reading English books written by the Brits, right? That is our legacy! This is not a book review. This page is an outcome of reading an old book that remains a classic and that too in the field of education. C.E.M….
Modi’s three years!
Of course, there is a great deal of development! Also, a great deal of anxiety and discomfort as well! The BJP government led by a self-confident Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi in three years has done a lot of good work. There is a transformation indeed in several sectors. The economy is growing at respectable rate…
Democracy, Opposition party and Opposition unity.
Lalu Prasad Yadav Rally in Patna On August 27 in Patna! Lalu Yadav, the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader, Lalu Prasad Yadav, the major Opposition leader has called for a rally of major Opposition parties has called for a united rally, called BJP Bhagao Desh Bachaoa on August 27 in Patna to oppose some of the…
Education is a public cause! Not a private profit!
But the ministers, policy makers turn it into a consumer product The rest of the crowd, the private sector educators and the money-minting machines turn it into a fast moving consumer goods sector! Is this all about education we have got to say? You see we are at this sector, at this journal for the…
What chances for reforming?
Indian democracy? Towards transparency, accountability and ensuring citizen’s freedoms? What is Modi’s new talk of New India? Can Indian democracy succeed without fighting corruption and black money menace? Mr.Modi after the series of victories in the Assembly elections seemed to have changed his goals too. He was till now, that is, in his first two…