LK Advani Ji! Familiarity breeds contemp...
Advani is all over the Indian Web landscape! Google Ads all over! And this time with the typical American way of telling ‘ABC for President!’ Oops For Prime Minister. Though i see this as a change of times and i always feel BJP was miles ahead when it came to being Tech Savy from the times of Late...
Strategy & Diplomacy in Independent...
Before we analyse the strategy and diplomacy of independent India we must have a perspective about what strategy and diplomacy means. It is only in the light of fundamental principles of strategy that we can comprehend the nature of successive wars India was forced to fight. Clausewitz defined “strategy...
Slum Tourism...
The whole country would have seen the photo of Rahul Gandhi and David Miliband on the front page of today’s edition of Times of India. Rahul is the elected Member of Parliament from Amethi and I wish he had taken the visitor to show the developments he would have initiated in his constituency on the...
Slumdog Millionaire...
Danny Boyle came, he directed and he won. Shall we not think on what India is rejoicing? A.R Rehman is the only good part about the slumdog story and India knows he is too good. However, should we not think what has been sold via the film? The slums, the stench, the gloom, misery, incapability, indifference,...
Evil vs Good...
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke (1729-97)
Haves & Have not’s...
Should we afford more than 50% of the Government of India’s revenues to be spent on less than 10% of the Indian Population- the so called government employees?   If the few thousand officers of the oil producing companies be organized to go on a strike to raise their salaries even after earning...
Take charge or be doomed...
Could economic outcomes be determined in India without effective Political and Administrative will?  Can we do without effective governance and responsible politics?  Who does our governments represent, common masses, or special interest groups or themselves?  Should the performance of the governments...
Government, Opposition and we the People...
We the Electorates;  Assembly elections have just concluded in some states and there is hardly anytime left for Lok Sabha elections. There are three groups to be found distinctly. First, the group which is enjoying power and will throw their gut out convincing all and sundry how marvelous a job they...