Yes, says Barack Obama! Corporate power corrodes Indian democracy? Yes, notice the recent events! N.R.Narayanamurthy’s Nasscom Committee on Corporate Governance! A time of great many ironies and contradictions! Yes, we seem to be living at a time of great many ironies and contradictions, to say the least. The Headlines Today TV news channel broke the…
Council for Higher Education and Research Act
What Kapil Sibal can and can’t do? Commercialisation and politicisation of higher education has taken alarming avatars! We know Kapil Sibal somewhat. We have met him once in his earlier avatar as science and technology minister. He is of course too smart a man, a clever lawyer with a reputation for making a lawyer’s case…
Right to Information ACT is kicking!
Know the new dream heroes! The ones who expose the chicken-hearted secrets of the high and mighty! Subhas Chandra Agarwal, RTI activist, no, a zealot leads the way for the no lesser mortals! Wajahat Habibullah, the Chief Information Commissioner! Shailesh Gandhi, the Central Information Commissioner! They, among themselves, the trio have obtained from the Central…
Dantewada massacre and after
Why the intelligence failed? No place for egocentric “I know-all” policies! Tribal India and the current Maoist upsurge calls for a more broad based policies and approaches. Digvijay Singh’s alternative view needs some examination Mr.Digvijay Singh, currently the General Secretary of the Congress and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh have created some stir, a…
India’s power sector: private players do a good job, prices to go up!
Private players seem to have effected a game changing development! They added almost half the total addition to power capacity. There are exciting developments in the power generating sector. It is the big role played by the private players, also called independent power producers, who totally alone produced half of the additional capacity in the…
Right to Free and Compulsory Education!
Right for free and compulsory access to minimum food! How the American experiences can help us? America, the drop-out economy! Where 3 out of 10 American students drop out of high schools as recently as 2006 Less than a third of students finish college! These and many other such startling statistics has been published in…
Democracy, development and security!
PM’s US visit seems a prosaic affair! The Prime Minister went on a 7 day foreign trip. This was on security issues, inside and outside India. Inside, the masscare of 76 CRPF jawans created a national furore. Shashi Tharoor IPL scandal hit in a big way. PM’s US visit seems a prosaic affair. Indian diplomacy…
Nitin Gadkari wants Ganga -Cauvery Link of national rivers!
He talks lots of practical sense! He must dilute more his temple rhetoric! Nitin Gadkari, the new president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be a refreshing new air in the Indian politics.Gone seems to be the era of L.K.Advani and his team. Gadkari dreams almost near total secular dream, expect his compulsions…