https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/india-superpower-gdp-growth-9316934/lite/ Bibek Debroy, the economist who has served in India’s apex economic think-tank Niti Aayog, may not get nominated for the Nobel Prize in economics, but “the way he weaves economic facts with our Puranas and Niti Shastras makes very interesting reading”, said a friend of mine with whom I had shared the above articleContinue reading “After “rajasuya” and “vajapeya yagnya” in this decade, will India witness “Ashwamedha yagnya” also in the next ?”
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2024 Elections: Modi Vs the “domestic incumbents” Mohamed El-Erian warns us about
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/india-must-manage-its-own-growing-global-systemic-importance-by-mohamed-a-el-erian-and-michael-spence-2024-03 Quite in contrast to the usual and steady stream of anti-India output we all know emanates from the ingrained bias, condescension and negative propaganda of the western media and Anglo-Saxon academia, this article by Mohamed El-Erian & Michael Spence seems in comparison almost like an, anodyne advisory —- friendly, well-intentioned and cautionary. There isContinue reading “2024 Elections: Modi Vs the “domestic incumbents” Mohamed El-Erian warns us about”
Constitutional conundrum: Is “Sathyam” greater than “Dharmam”?
Here’s a press report dt.28 Feb 2024 which makes for interesting reading https://lawbeat.in/columns/dharma-not-truth-constitution-former-sc-judge-bats-removal-hindu-shloka A former judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Kurian Joseph, has recently stated that the Supreme Court’s motto “यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः” (Where there is Dharma, there is victory) should be removed. He pointed out that Dharma, as stipulated in the Hindu fold,Continue reading “Constitutional conundrum: Is “Sathyam” greater than “Dharmam”?”
“Yathaa raaja thatha praja”: Is Ostentatious Religiosity harmless or toxic?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is so creative as a politician come election time. Last time general elections were held in 2019, he went to Dhyaan Kutia cave in the Himalaya ranges of Kedarnath and sat there in “dhyaana” pose, Buddha-like pictures of which went viral right across the media space , within and outside India.Continue reading ““Yathaa raaja thatha praja”: Is Ostentatious Religiosity harmless or toxic?”
“India’s Feet of Clay” in “Foreign Affairs”: Ramachandra Guha is Sir Bedivere to Nehruvian King Arthur
If any self-respecting Indian were to read this article written by Ramachandra Guha in latest issue of “FOREIGN AFFAIRS” , he or she would wonder if it is not exactly what Mahatma Gandhi had in mind when he wrote that Katherine Mayo’s book on “Mother India” was not really history but “a drain inspector’s report”.Continue reading ““India’s Feet of Clay” in “Foreign Affairs”: Ramachandra Guha is Sir Bedivere to Nehruvian King Arthur”
A social-contract reeking of conflict of interest and moral hazard: Electoral Bond Scheme
“The Hindu” today 21 Feb 2024 : DATA POINT At least the Data analysis above — if not the noisy news and editorial commentaries in the media that have only confused and confounded me — confirms now my own suspicions voiced in my previous blogposts that I posted here over the last few days, everContinue reading “A social-contract reeking of conflict of interest and moral hazard: Electoral Bond Scheme”
Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?
I do not agree with Ritesh Sharma’s view below ⬇️ I think what PM Modi really meant was that ordinary people who were able to make anonymously small contributions to political parties in India under the Electoral Bond Scheme EBS have now lost that means of exercising even a modicum of popular influence on politicalContinue reading “Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?”
“sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..!
For big corporates and big business political donations are part of their business strategy… Donations to this or that party constitutes an investment with an expected return within a given time frame. But we all know for a fact that there are millions of other small business men, traders, shopkeepers and vendors of goods andContinue reading ““sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..! “
Electoral Bond Scheme verdict: Conspiracy of the Powerful to pull wool over our eyes?
Matching buyers of electoral bonds with recipients could be tricky, say activists – https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/matching-buyers-of-electoral-bonds-with-recipients-could-be-tricky-say-activists/article67850160.ece The news today say that it’s going to be technically tricky to reveal exactly “who gave how much to which party” under the Electoral Bond Scheme which yesterday the Supreme Court of India declared as illegal and unconstitutional. In other words,Continue reading “Electoral Bond Scheme verdict: Conspiracy of the Powerful to pull wool over our eyes?”
The Supreme Court has outlawed the Electoral Bond Scheme : Will Modi now walk the talk ?
Do we all remember Anna Hazare’s short lived mass movement not so long ago against Corruption in political life ? Why did Anna Hazare catch the imagination of the people —- even if only very briefly — when he launched his anti corruption movement ? Election funding in our country today is the fountainhead ofContinue reading “The Supreme Court has outlawed the Electoral Bond Scheme : Will Modi now walk the talk ?”