Do we all remember Anna Hazare’s short lived mass movement not so long ago against Corruption in political life ? Why did Anna Hazare catch the imagination of the people —- even if only very briefly — when he launched his anti corruption movement ? Election funding in our country today is the fountainhead ofContinue reading “The Supreme Court has outlawed the Electoral Bond Scheme : Will Modi now walk the talk ?”
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India Middle East Europe Connectivity Corridor, paved with “Vishwa guru” ambitions?
The day after the New Delhi G20 Summit ended yesterday, the world media has gone agog over the announcement of the India Middle East Europe Connectivity Corridor (IMEECC)! Hyperboles are flying around hail it as the signal of a new emerging world order about to “overcome many geopolitical hurdles.” Here is a one sample ofContinue reading “India Middle East Europe Connectivity Corridor, paved with “Vishwa guru” ambitions?”
Both the Treasury and Opposition benches are guilty of grossly disrespecting the institution of Parliament
What we as countrymen watched in Parliament in the past week was nothing but pathetic farce played out by both the Government and Opposition benches. When it all ended, of course, the former could crow about its victory — how M/s Amit Shah and Narendra Modi combined to vanquish the entire Opposition. But it’s aContinue reading “Both the Treasury and Opposition benches are guilty of grossly disrespecting the institution of Parliament”
Why is sauce for Nehru’s goose not sauce for Modi’s gander?
Progress in such a complicated matter has to be necessarily slow and incremental. Maybe a beginning can be made with divorce laws, succession and inheritance laws. Even here legislation should not be rushed through Parliament without discussions. Otherwise, such legislation will meet the fate of the farm laws. —- a common citizen’s quote to meContinue reading “Why is sauce for Nehru’s goose not sauce for Modi’s gander?”
The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?
Prime Minister Modi is in the USA today ! And over the next few days INDIA and USA are expected to sign landmark long-term agreements which will commit the latter to unprecedented defence and trade ties favouring the former. India is said to be on the cusp of a so-called “heralding of a totally newContinue reading “The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?”
“The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA
Here’s my own take on this editorial published in the latest issue of of The Economist UK : (please scroll right down to read the reproduced piece) 1. The title should have been rephrased as “ America’s new best fair-weather friend”. 2. India is certainly more democratic and far less liberal than the West. Why?Continue reading ““The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA”
PM Modi “floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee”… indeed !
https://theconversation.com/listen-indian-pm-modi-is-expected-to-get-a-rockstar-welcome-in-the-u-s-how-much-is-the-diaspora-fuelling-him-206260 The above 👆🏿 news report on Prime Minister’s upcoming State visit to the USA brings to focus his amazing popularity abroad amongst the Indian Diaspora. To his political detractors the Modi Act might seem like political vaudeville but to many Indians both within the country and abroad it is actually a premier political Formula-1Continue reading “PM Modi “floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee”… indeed !”
Modi, the new Parliament building and Sengkol : a private debate between e-mail friends
A vigorous debate broke out this morning via exchange of emails between me and a couple of senior-citizen senior ranking retired ex-bureaucrats of the Government of India . I will not disclose their identities here as I value their privacy and also respect their right to their own views and convictions. But at the sameContinue reading “Modi, the new Parliament building and Sengkol : a private debate between e-mail friends”
POLL: Which 4 Indian leaders would deserve to be memorialised on an India version of Mt. Rushmore?
On Mount Rushmore , Vermont, in the USA , to memorialise them, on a huge tall mountain cliff are sculpted the faces of 4 of the tallest leaders in American History : George Washington, Thomas Jefferson , Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln . If a similar memorial were to be also carved somewhere, say, onContinue reading “POLL: Which 4 Indian leaders would deserve to be memorialised on an India version of Mt. Rushmore?”
A nauseous interview with Siddharth Varadarajan
Reading the interview made me want to throw up 🤢 ! (To read full text of it please scroll right down). Siddharth Varadarajan is to Indian journalism what Arvind Kejriwal is to Indian politics … both arrogate to themselves a moral superiority that’s nothing short of supercilious humbug. Kejriwal and Varadarajan like to think ofContinue reading “A nauseous interview with Siddharth Varadarajan”