One of the things I am hoping to get better at (and do more of) is a quick (but broad) sweep of the blogosphere to pick up posts from fellow bloggers that I find interesting and insightful…

This morning, I visited some of my favourite bloggers and came across these “must-read” for this week items:

India Should Give Up its Subcontinental Mindset: Air Chief on Apollo’s Blog. I wish I could find the full text of the speech it refers to. There is an allusion to the instability in India’s neighbourhood in the speech on which I hope to write something soon.

Great post on Manmohan Singh’s Communal Socialism by Offstumped (what a great name for a blog – I wish I had thought of that!). He also has a few posts in Hindi - something that I hope I can begin in 2007.

Also read Indian Politics and News Media 2006 – Offstumped Retrospective 

and finally, Rajnath Singh Blasts the UPA for its ‘Communal Socialist’ Politics