Srinivasa Sastri viewed Dharma as both personal ethical conduct and societal duty. He linked it closely to moral responsibility, justice, compassion, and wise governance. If there was only one overriding theme that overshadowed all others in his famous thirty “Lectures on the Ramayana“ 1944, it was this commandment and this alone: “Rulers must abide by Dharma—a combination ofContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-14): “Anti-Sanatanist Liberal” or “Orthodox Performative Brahmin”? …”
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In defence of Nobel Prize for Ben Bernanke: Party-pooping in hindsight is unfair!
Both in the stratospherically cerebral worlds of economists and central-bankers as well as in the worldwide social-media (Twitter , WhatsApp and Private email-groups), there’s a lot of trolling, snide Monday-morning quarter-backing and bitchy-sniping going on about Ben Bernanke being awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, 2022. Below are 2 examples – one in social mediaContinue reading “In defence of Nobel Prize for Ben Bernanke: Party-pooping in hindsight is unfair!”
Accidental and Incidental Prime Ministers of India
https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/thirty-years-down-memory-lane-101625081189954-amp.html IN the above “down memory lane walk” article penned, it’s not really clear if P. Chidambaram is paying tributes to PVN, MMS, Montek, to the few other Babu-bureaucrats he deigns to name or is simply tooting his own hoot as an architect — or at least perhaps a “fellow architect”— of the great transitionContinue reading “Accidental and Incidental Prime Ministers of India”