say this! Everybody who immensely respects the PM do read this! With time I feel more and more that the reforms introduce by Manmonhan Singh are more due to IMF sanctions than his own will! He does not have the political courage to do anything let alone implement such schemes. I feel India was fortunate to not have a Gandhi member active in politics and hence these schemes went through. Man the irony of India!
highlighting some really important aspects of Indian government that need to change by Amit Varma. Do read the entire piece!
Sri Lanka took aggressive military action and have ended the LTTE. The picture presented by the Sri Lankan Government was that it was mostly peaceful. Well, read this piece by Salil Tripathi and make up your minds
reading this piece is "You got to be kidding"
Unfortunately the truth is different. There are people around the world who take this seriously and will act as if they are words from God. Thats the world I guess!
chapter of election winning, economy sapping rural schemes from the UPA
Important excerpts below
Creating employment needs patience and our political system has very little of it. In the absence of patient work other “solutions” are tried—politically funded entitlements, affirmative action and plain throwing of money at the poor.
There is no reason for despair, if the intent truly is to improve rural lives. What is required is a heavy dose of investment in education and infrastructure. The problem is that results of such investment cannot be reaped in a single electoral cycle. Hence the short cuts. NRLM is a good example of that thinking.
Congress party and its machinery is adept at creating plans that reap benefits in a single election cycle. See Andhra Pradesh for example or even India for that matter. Again they prove to be awesome!
for the morons who lead the National Advisory Council (NAC).
Some Excerpts!
Farmer agitations across the country have shown us that pushing people off their land is no way to acquire land for industry. The most sensible solution is to offer farmers market prices for their land and offer them a share in future cash flows from that land through annuities (or some similar option). A land market also has the added advantage of offering farmers a way out of farm work, in case it makes economic sense to them. The NAC checklist will ensure that a government authority rather than the farmers will decide whether to sell or not.
Unfortunately, the crisis in the Congress is structural. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi seem to be wilfully oblivious to the responsibilities that come with power; the prime minister thinks silence is a substitute for duty. Some of its smart ministers are too arrogantly clever by half to project any credibility. A large section of the party is too submissive to ask the nasty questions that should be asked of the leadership. And those who take up the cudgels of public argument have no sense of proportion or judgement about what to say, when. What is it about the Congress party that repeatedly produces an intellectual culture that turns intelligent people into self-destructive political animals? It has performed the miracle of turning a moment of great hope for India into a moment of political despair.
Full link here
Over the course of a wedding in Delhi, I got myself into a strongly worded conversation with some friends (I met for the first time, I know, I am crazy!) regarding the state of politics in India. Especially with regards to the state of politics in Delhi and the rule of the so called secular party. Over the last two months, the congress part and its government has descended into a level I thought were not possible (even for the Congress). The handling of Baba Ramdev (a joker no doubt) itself is a testimony to the idiocy that prevails in Congress and its ministers. To offer a red carpet to a Godman and then arrest him at midnight, not to mention label him as RSS in a matter of two days is funny, incredibly stupid and worrisome! Its just unfortunate. Of course, any country in a democracy gets the government it deserves. Indians do not have the spine to stand up against what is wrong. I am not asking people to fight here. I am just asking people to vote. I am sick and tired of hearing that there is no credble alternative. Anything can be better than this congress rule. I mean if you generate a random number and make decisons on government policy, it will be better than this! I only wish it were a computer generated code that runs the country as oppossed to the distinguished PhD that we have as a PM.
Mark my words, the moment Rahul Gandhi will step in as the PM cadidate everybody will forget all thats bad with the current congress and vote him to power. Its not a matter of if it will happen, its only a matter of when. Long live the Queen and her sons!
There is something with me, Tennis and Austin :)
Well, one more time Federer will play Nadal in the Final. Lets see how things go!
Excited and looking forward to it!
