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…
The changing World
What will be Obama’s legacy? What will be the state of freedoms for the people? The changing meanings of freedom in today’s world! A new ode to freedom likely to be sung for our time? In the year 1935, I remember and recall Prof.Harold Laski, the famous British political scientist, in those heady days of…
Letterto Tridivesh Singh Maini
E-mail:tridivesh80@hotmail.com Dear Tridivesh Singh Maini, I was pleased to read through your op-ed page article in the Hindu dated June 25, 2013. You have done a good service by taking up the tough job of articulating the possible scenario in forming a third front or a federal front. I had read through your piece for…
Letter to editor@ft.com
Sir, I read Ft regularly. The latest issue of Saturday July 13, 2013 I read on my blog as well in print the next day in India. On Amertya Se and Jean Dreze, I am afraid what Ramchandra Guha says is only partly relevant and the rest is readable for what it is worth. The…
Public Sector Banks need innovations!
Specific disadvantaged sectors must be catered to! Many insurance products,from halth to life insurance policies can be promoted. What about the priority sector lending? Let us reward the bank innovators by Padmasris and Padma Bhushans! New challenges,new opportunities and new risks! The Indian banking system is a vast one. Ever since Inira Gandhi nationalised the…
India on the world stage!
Where are the argumentative Indians? Fighting for our freedoms and democratic safeguards! Recent events on the international scene, military coup in Egypt, before that the Snowden affair that roused world public opinion in favour of giving asylum to him and India’s cowardly response and many other events including inside India, the Narendra Modi vs. Rahul…
Agriculture and economic growth
Only economic experts can’t do it either! Political leadership is required to inspire and promote agriculture, equity that is justice and all round economic development and thereby economic growth. A bit long-winded? Yes, it is! But then in India there are now many contradictions in our serious governance mechanism. Why? And how? Here are some…