Category: Politics and Governance in India

Now, not just worried but also angry with IAC and Anna

I began to get seriously worried about “India Against Corruption” and “Team Anna” when I spoke to Prahlad Pandey last week. Prahlad is a young enthusiastic FTI member and now a full-fledged political activist....

On educating myself, blogs and reclaiming India

While reading Shekhar Gupta’s thought-provoking edit, “Our Singapore fantasy” earlier last month, I stumbled on these lines (highlighted for emphasis): Yes, there are problems with our politics and governance and both need reform. That...

J&K: 2 decades of violence & 2 myths

Many of you must have read/heard about these two fairly “popular” myths about J&K: “Kashmir is the ‘most heavily militarized zone’ in the world” or its variations: “There is an Indian soldier for every...

Forget Right to Justice; Just Do What is Right

..or how Justice delayed is justice denied. Some of you must have read the recent news-report of a bill proposed to be tabled in Parliament to ensure “time-bound justice for citizens“. The bill has...

“Inch-by-inch” in far-away Demchok..

How many of you read this “news” on 27th? I am guessing most of you missed it. I did too…until I was alerted to it by a friend on fb. …The government ban on construction...