Government has some critical priorities to draw up! Prime Minister at the 104th Indian Science Congress! What he said at the session was very uninspiring! The Prime Minister of India as a tradition usually participates at the annual Indian Science Congress session. This year the Congress drew a reported 11,000 scientists and also six Nobel…
Rhodes scholars history is long and distinguished!
Rhodes scholarship Selection Committee Has to have a broader vision! Evolve a more equitable approach to spotting talents from diverse backgrounds! We need to create a bolder leadership base! Politics, public service, a more meaningful polity and recognition of values and moral commitments must become part of national traits! Five young Indian students win Rhodes…
A new biography of Karl Marx!
What a new biography of Marx call tell us, written after this distance of time? Here are some rare insights about his life and work. What we don’t know about Karl Marx so far? A new biography of Karl Marx. Marx lived 65 years. His impact on the world has been so all parasites on…
The new realities in rural India!
Yes, there are now better realisation why Indian agriculture matters. Why rural India matters? Why agriculture and rural sectors don’t make news? Simply because there is no wider social recognition! May be from now onwards with environment, pollution and other issues, not the least is the health sector issues and the very emergence of an…
Tatas’ Corporate Battles!
What chance for corporate governance in India? Role of Independent Directors falls flat! India is a poor country, we have to realise first. World bank, Tendulkar Committee Report and the subsequent Rangaran committee have also fixed poverty line in India fromRs.27.2(in 2009) to Rs.32.3(urban India),Rangarajan :Rs.32 to Rs.47 and the total number of poor resulting…
After the demonetisation, what next?
Solve the cash deficit faster, GDP growth to hit? More public awareness campaign is required! The Indian media plays a submissive role, Opposition also doesn’t help Yet, there are serious issues about the Indian polity’s skewed developments. The Prime Minister has done the long-pending reform of a black-market economy that had learnt to thrive on…
Job creation, the major worry for the Indian policy makers
Niti Aayog drawing up agri reforms! Agri sector is long neglected in fundamental policy thinking and hence there is no policy reforms for long. Now, we learn that Niti Aayog, the old Planning Commission-type policy making body set up by the new government seems to be really serious bout agri reforms. The external factors for…
What is happening in Odisha state?
Rotten in the state of Denmark? Horror stories That is how one is tempted to ask when we read the continuous stories of human depravity, total loss of a sense of belonging and whether people there care to worry about their what is seemingly their daily on-going increased neglect of the people by the government…