Good news for Indians. Back to autarky. Back to grinding poverty.
You might be a third world country if …
Leadership through inheritance is a compelling sign of a poor or a declining nation
Ruling a banana republic does not require special qualifications Item: Captain John Wright, 58, is retiring as a senior pilot. He has had a distinguished flying career with 35 years of sitting in the left hand seat in the cockpit,… Read More ›
The Games Built on a Cesspool
No one can escape the huge amount of press on the ongoing disaster called the “Commonwealth Games” in New Delhi. There is little doubt about the train-wreck — it’s inevitable as the locomotive has long left the track and is… Read More ›
China’s Proposed Transcontinental Rail Project
The Chinese leadership knows how to think big — which is more than what one can say about the Indian leadership, which one must remember has been mainly from the Congress party led by the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty. One case in… Read More ›
If you don’t have one law for all, you might be a third world country
I think that one feature common to the majority of the third world countries is that they don’t have one law for all.
B Raman: “Counter-terrorism & Appeasement”
Mr. B Raman, in his South Asia Analysis Group paper of 20th August — “Counter-terrorism & Appeasement” — writes: * There have been four acts of mass casualty terrorism since 1981. All the four were carried out when the Congress… Read More ›
Whistling in the Dark about the Future
Gurcharan Das writes in the Times of India (10th May) that “The Future Belongs to India.” That’s his argument which I suppose he made in a debate in London on the proposition that “the future belongs to India, not China.”… Read More ›
The Paucity of Names
It could not possibly be a lack of imagination, could it? Why is everything in India named after Nehru, Indira, Sanjay, and Rajiv? I have pondered that matter here before.
Electoral Reforms
Although I had planned to, I will not be attending the “5th National Conference on Electoral and Political Reforms” of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). It’s happening in Mumbai, and I alas, am in Pune. My colleague Rajesh Jain… Read More ›
What’s a “Patwa”?
A fatwa is a religious decree made by a mullah. A “patwa” is like a fatwa but made by Patil. A patwa, like a fatwa, is not based on reason or logic. But it is not just a matter of… Read More ›
