The working of Indian Parliament needs restoration of strict standards! To resort to physical obstruction, by muting the mike of the Leader of Opposition and also not allowing senior leaders like L.K.Advani not to intervene is the latest extremism that is not parliamentary decorum and protocol. It is a pity the Prime Minister showed…
Indian economy and polity in crisis
What are the ways out? You need to have a confident leadership! This much is admitted by everyone in the country. But then what are the reasons? At best, the PM is keeping mum but his chief economic advisory council expert, Dr.C.Rangarajan says something. As for the Finance Minister, he is just the opposite! He…
India’s print media industry future!
As long as people seek for articulations and clarifications there will be need for print media industry! There is the latest news about the Kolkata-based business magazine, Business world is closed down. Also, some other magazines from other groups also closed down. The print media industry faces new problems, apart from growth. The very credibility…
2014 elections!
Discontent with the Parliamentary system It would be fought on what issues? Food Bill is not an issue at all! Critical issues are about reforms! What reforms? Not anymore economic reforms! People would only laugh at it! With the current economic scenario! What all your reforms so far had led you to? Rupee fall continues…
Latest war clouds on Syria
Surely, US President has to seek an international consensus! That only can save his legacy as a Peace President! India’s voice must be more positive and assertive! This sort of weak responses, often too late in the day, doesnt helps enhance India’s foreign policy legacy and our own sense of worth and meaning in an…
Obama’s silences intriguing!
Not good for the world! Not good for him either! Are we all living in a surveillance-ridden world? Inside India too, there are worrisome trends! That could trip India into unexpected territories! US President Barack Obama is now in the mid-term of his second term! Increasingly, he seems to be more silent that he used…
Our freedoms, our democratic rights!
Where are they? Not at the Moscow transit airport lounge nor at the London Heathrow! In the world we are living through! Nor at the ports, airports or airport lounges, as demonstrated by Edward Snowden and latest by the Brazilian journalist David Miranda! Why the world is so unconcerned? About our own freedoms or democracy?…
Tariq Ali, you know
The enfant terrible of the Sixties England A Romantic hero of the youth of that European period He continues to play that role, that of keeping up that radical, even a sort of anarchist role in our times. He was in India recently. He spoke on the contemporary world he knows best. Tariq Ali is…