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…
Create a separate Ministry for Uttarkhand
Rehabilitation and Development Create a new post of Cabinet Minister! Station him or her in Dehradun! This is a national disaster! The Uttarkhand Speaker, Govind Singh Kunjwal, had put the loss of lives at 10,000 while the Union home minister puts it at 900. Whose figures the public would believe? Surely, the local man would…
The emerging political scenario in India
Is there a case for a federal or third front? 2014 elections seem to be the only talking point among the politicians and the political parties these days, it seems. Politics in India is a hot topic as the country is changing fast in socioeconomic terms. The economic growth is a hot topic too. In…