Category: Politics and Governance in India

The dark clouds just got a bit darker…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how my hopes had been raised�(see “Silver lining to dark clouds…?“) by some of the new political groupings/parties that have been formed recently � Paritran, Bharat Punarnirman...

Unintended or deliberate? The missing “H-word”…

I picked up this story on intellibrief. Addressing the audience during his recent visit to Deoband, Shri Rahul Gandhi said:� “I only see every individual here as an individual. They are all Hindustanis. Who...

A grass-roots response to Naxal terror

Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, a Mumbai-based academy for training and research recently( Feb 14, �07) organised a Seminar in New Delhi on �Innovative Strategies to counter Naxalism: Experiment of Salva Judum.��� I received a summary...

Silver lining to dark clouds….?

A few weeks ago, I read about another political party launched by ex-IITians. Some of you may remember “Lok Paritran” (which originally started originally as “Paritran” in early ’06) which was the first one, I think....

Do we deserve the politicians we get?

These two posts are from last year but very well-written, thoughtful and drew tons of comments…I recommend everyone reads them…I will be writing a short essay on this separately as I think this topic deserves continuing debate and...