Profile | Good Ending
This is an editorial that Mr. N. Ram of THE HINDU penned himself on hearing that painter Mr. M. F. Husain had been conferred Qatari citizenship...Read More
Collage of views on the Indian budget for 2010-1
I shall start with mine. You can find it here. India’s Finance Minister presented the fiscal budget for 2010-11 on Friday, February 26th...Read More
Good News India 2/2
In the ‘India Today’ issue dated Feb. 8, 2010, there are two different articles with two common themes: one common theme is Gujarat and the other common theme is that of checkdams that Gujarat has pursued relentlessly... Read More
Good News India 1/2
My good friend D. V. Sridharan used to update his wonderful website www.goodnewsindia.com. It was a balm amidst all the bad news that one got from the sensation-seeking media...Read More
Madhu Kishwar’s efforts advance real reforms and Delhi High Court plays its part
It was a special morning. I received two very important and wonderful emails from Madhu Kishwar, the founder-editor of ‘Manushi’, the magazine, the Trustee of ‘Manushi Sangathan’, social activist, occasional Op-ed writer and many other things...Read More
James Tooley’s message is about educating ourselves
My interest in James Tooley’s book, ‘Beautiful Tree’ was triggered by a conversation that good friend Narayan Ramachandran had with me on January 4th. Sitting on the stairs of my apartment complex in Raja Annamalaipuram in Chennai....Read More
India doing enough to be noticed
Two days ago, I received this article via email from good friend Dr. Chandru Rajam, currently living in the US. This talks of industry clusters...Read More
UPA's self-goals
Two weeks away from Indian newspapers - I only managed to catch headlines on the IPL auctions. I thought Pakistan players were not automatically selected...Read More
Thalir Thiran Thittam - Children Skill Programme in Tamil Nadu
At the beginning of this year, in my end-of-the-year 2008 letter to friends and relatives, I wrote the following paragraphs:.. ...Read More
Rural BPOs in India
Ms. Lydia Polgreen based in Delhi and covering South Asia for New York Times (NYT) had written a news story on rural BPOs in India.. ...Read More
A City of Two Tales
When I heard that good friends Arvind and Neela were moving to Jakarta from Hong Kong, I wanted to check with them how was it for cosmopolitan and well-travelled Indians to live in Jakarta......Read More
State and private violence: a flawed moral equivalence
A senior police officer of Chattisgarh, R. K. Vij, has written an Op-Ed in Indian Express on the brutal beheading of the police officer, Francis Induwar. ...Read More
The missing self pride
Wall Street Journal sends an electronic news update to its subscribers. As I woke up this morning, I found the news that Rio has been selected as the venue for 2016 Olympics...Read More
Dedication on the 63rd Independence Day
On the independence day, one could have written about the problem....Read More
The one big ray of hope in the budget for the future of India
Good friend and country head of Morgan Stanley India makes some very reasonable points in his interview with ET Now....Read More
Rating and selecting winner of the post-election comments that I had read
There have been many comments on the election results in India. It was a truly remarkable result for two reasons: one was that it was not anticipated and two.......Read More
Recent readings on India
Some interesting/informative/provocative pieces on and related to India or Indians that I have come across in recent times:.......Read More
The Congress party has a lot to answer for
I had circulated Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s (Dr. PBM) piece in ‘Indian Express’ (April 15, 2009) titled ‘Politics of hurt’. It elicited quite a good response from my mailing list. Some proceeded to focus on Dr. PBM’s non-existent but rumoured Congress connections. Some found his remarks connecting BJP.......Read More
Blind men compete to lead India for the next five years
Today is Tamil New Year Day. I have taken the day off from work. I wanted to write about the manifestoes that I have gone through: that of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and that of the Indian National Congress (INC)...Read More
Catching a few glimpses of the 'always happening' country
It is good to be back home (always), even if the trip is a short one and Chennai is hot. Managed to catch up with six newspapers (three each for the two weekend days) ...Read More
The Indian middle (or muddled) class?
Bibek Debroy makes an interesting and very important point, in his last paragraph. In fact, he underplays it. The million dollar question is whether the point he makes in the last paragraph...Read More
The ‘dream’ team that went sour
Prof. Arvind Panagariya has written a forthright piece in ‘Economic Times’. He makes his point straightaway in the opening paragraph...Read More
Speech that sets the standard
Dhruva Jaishankar has posted a nice comment on the speech by Shri Shyam Saran, Prime Minister's Special Envoy at the India Habitat Centre. This is the link to his post...Read More
A template for economic governance
I came across a post on Shri Advani-ji’s speech at the AGM of FICCI in India. Here is the specific link :‘Offstumped’ has made some extremely valid observations on Shri Advani-ji’s post. One of the key stumbling blocks to good governance is the non-proximity of the rulers from the ruled...Read More
A review of “Imagining India” by Nandan Nilekani
One of the satisfying things about the vacation in India this December was the successful completion of the reading of the book, ‘Imagining India’ by Nandan Nilekani...Read More
Reforms for the Republic on its sixtieth birthday
Indian High Commission organises a thoughtful seminar In a thoughtful initiative, the Indian High Commission in Singapore had organised a small seminar (on January 23rd) on the occasion of the Indian Republic celebrating the 60th Republic Day shortly...Read More
Politics is an eight-letter not a four-letter word
When one steps back and mentally surveys the scene that Prof. R Vaidyanathan describes (see article below), one is left with a feeling...Read More
"Dharma" strikes back
Satyam Scandalizes
Published in FT: January 8 2009 19:29
India is rarely as shiny as its fans insists. The $1 Billion fraud perpetrated by Satyam Computer Services...Read More
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