On track for 7, Race Course Rd
At the risk of having to eat my own words, here is a bold prediction: Before 2014, India will have Lalu-ji (Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav) as Prime Minister with Rahul Baba as PM-in-waiting and...
Category: Politics and Governance in India
A great model of good governance
I first heard about Sakshi through Geeta Gokhale of BPD (Thanks Geeta). What got me interested was this story about their latest “success” (below). After reading that, I decided to do some background research...
How a tea-stall survey trumped exit polls…(and more)
Four articles re. the UP elections. CAUTION: LONG POST. While catching up on the post-election analysis of UP elections, I picked up this interesting article by Vidya Subrahmaniam: “Travelling in U.P. at election time” *****...
Punarnirman Dal, Lok Paritran – Update
Like “energy” (see recent comment), I have been waiting for news on how BPD, LP and others fared in the elections in UP. Unfortunately the news is not good: Two little known outfits —...
Bob Dole, Media and Real Issues…
I picked up this gem in a recent edition of TIME Magazine‘s letters to the editor section: This is a small excerpt from a letter written by Bob Dole to TIME almost 27 years ago: “…I...
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