Indian democracy must inspire South East Asian countries! Is India doing enough? Are we waking up to our Asian fraternity? Inside India, we have our own problems, yes. But outside India, the world looks at us as a great democracy.Are we,Indians doing enough to realise our own past contributions to the rise of Asia in…
How to live with the USA?
It is time Indians must wake up to certain realities! India can’t remain a mute witness to the reality of sending cheap labour to the American market! Some three million Indians live in the USA. Some, one lakh Indian students study there! These are the latest data. Yet, India seems to have difficulties to understand…
How much Indians are attached to their own individual freedoms?
Why such a question now? There are a few books that have come out in England about the British nostalgia for their bygone days. They, the Brits, now realise that their own imperial glory had gone, their country has sunk into a small island, its economy battered and there is no growth and also not…
India in 2014, a rudderless ship?
Who is leading India? Guiding India? Some loud thinking and some hard questions! The New Year opens up with the Prime Minister announcing, seemingly voluntarily, as he would be leaving his high office after the 2014 general elections. Is it a happy news or sad news? For many sad news indeed. For the common man,…
Aam aadmi party and the Left and other ideological parties!
Is there any basic economic or political ideological thinking? Prakash Karat, the CPI (M) general secretary is now a sad men so, too the others like the much-talking comrades, from D.Raja to Sitaram Yechury and vetran Pranab Bhardan and the others. Where have all the Bengal comrades gone? Why no tremor or any noise? What…
Prime Minister’s parting shot!
PM blames the media for all his troubles! Will history judge him kindly or harshly? Ask some historians! Yes, PM Dr.Singh in his third and last press conference has announced that he won’t seek a third term. Was this news? Nor no news? It was almost, if we can say, non-news! Why? His last present…
India at the WTO: India a net agri exporter!
Can India win friends and influence people at the WTO? US representative has separate meeting with India! World trade is a big topic. And within it, the world trade in agriculture, commodities is another big area of interest to India. India is now on the cusp of a big push in becoming a number one…
American politics, society and culture
Afghan President visit to India And, suddenly, this ugly Indo-American face-ff erupts! We had almost finished writing this essay detailing what the latest Afghan-American face- off is like! But then the latest face-off between India and the Americans came out! What an irony and also what a sad turn to the widely perceived friendly Indo-American…