It is election season now and for me it is quite fascinating to do some laid-back voting analysis while waiting for D-DAY on June 4th. You may call it idling time but it’s still worth it because it gives me a slightly better understanding of our voting system. Going back to the subject of glaring anomalies ofContinue reading “Make the Indian Voter pay for his apathy”
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What makes Chinese people different from us Indians is what distinguishes “atma nirbhar” from “pate bharo”.
To me the most interesting passage in the above Foreign Policy article is this: “In its first phase, Wang writes, industrialization “took off in situ.” Rather than moving to cities, farmers began to work as industrial laborers in their villages. “By the mid-1990s, 40 percent of China’s rural labor force was producing industrial goods inContinue reading “What makes Chinese people different from us Indians is what distinguishes “atma nirbhar” from “pate bharo”.”
“A bold agenda for cleansing the Indian Electoral stables”: Will the new Central Government 2024-2029 have the courage to see it through?
In response to my blogpost of yesterday here at this link : https://mksudarshans.blog/2024/05/26/is-indian-electoral-system-designed-to-put-into-power-only-minority-governments/ , retired Judge of the Madras High Court, Justice T.C.A. Rangarajan ( https://tshc.gov.in/retjudges/tncrj.html) sent me an email proposing what I consider is a truly wholesome and innovative although radical and challenging agenda for large-scale Reform of India’s voting system. To read JudgeContinue reading ““A bold agenda for cleansing the Indian Electoral stables”: Will the new Central Government 2024-2029 have the courage to see it through?”
Whose edict should be followed ? Siddaramiah’s or the Bhagavath-Gita’s?
Why Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah Could Not Marry The Girl He Once Loved: http://dhunt.in/UIeSe Chief Minister of Karnataka State and Congress Party Neta Sri Siddaramiah says : Why did he say such a thing ? What motivated him? Read below : How interesting if not bizarre indeed is Siddaramiah a posteriori logic … for championing “inter-casteContinue reading “Whose edict should be followed ? Siddaramiah’s or the Bhagavath-Gita’s?”
Constitutional conundrum: Is “Sathyam” greater than “Dharmam”?
Here’s a press report dt.28 Feb 2024 which makes for interesting reading https://lawbeat.in/columns/dharma-not-truth-constitution-former-sc-judge-bats-removal-hindu-shloka A former judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Kurian Joseph, has recently stated that the Supreme Court’s motto “यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः” (Where there is Dharma, there is victory) should be removed. He pointed out that Dharma, as stipulated in the Hindu fold,Continue reading “Constitutional conundrum: Is “Sathyam” greater than “Dharmam”?”
Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?
I do not agree with Ritesh Sharma’s view below ⬇️ I think what PM Modi really meant was that ordinary people who were able to make anonymously small contributions to political parties in India under the Electoral Bond Scheme EBS have now lost that means of exercising even a modicum of popular influence on politicalContinue reading “Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?”
“sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..!
For big corporates and big business political donations are part of their business strategy… Donations to this or that party constitutes an investment with an expected return within a given time frame. But we all know for a fact that there are millions of other small business men, traders, shopkeepers and vendors of goods andContinue reading ““sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..! “
The Supreme Court of India and a “casteless society”
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/a-seminal-issue-before-the-supreme-court-2895052 The Deccan Herald How many more “seminal issues of Constitution”, one wonders , will the Chief Justices of our Supreme Court have to deliberate and adjudicate upon before we see the last of this whole business of Reservations and Quotas ? This country has had 75 long years to progress to what it dreamedContinue reading “The Supreme Court of India and a “casteless society””
Their Holiness the Sankaracharyas’ stance on the Ayodhya Ram Temple
A very dear friend of mine living in the USA sent me a message this morning on WhatsApp: “Shree Ram temple will fully be completed only by 2026 and today all the 4 Sankaracharyas have politely declined to attend the consecration ceremony. Their decisions sound logical to me. Their stand seems to vindicate the OppositionContinue reading “Their Holiness the Sankaracharyas’ stance on the Ayodhya Ram Temple”
The Mouth Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The HINDU for long has espoused Communist Ideology in India … but has now graduated to being the CPI (M)’s MOUTH-ORGAN ————————————————————— This Hindu editorial this morning (12 Sep 2023) on the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Abrogation of Art.370 in Kashmir is nothing but mean-spirited nitpicking … Fundamentally, the Editors of the HINDU makeContinue reading “The Mouth Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)”