Category: Politics and Governance in India

A free TV and a story of hope

This is  the story of Jayakumar, a free TV and hope…Read on…Extracts from Gnani Sankaran’s “The king has no clothes, only freebies“: Jayakumar, a humble farmer of Kothamangalam village in the Pudukottai district of...

Of Celebrity MPs and Performance

Actually, “Non-Performance”.  Thanks to Srinivasan-ji for alerting me to this spreadsheet detailing performance of individual MPs, courtesy PRS. (emphasis added). The performance has been measured along a number of dimensions including debates participated, private...

On Baba-log and Mummy Papa MPs

I woke up today morning to this article, thanks to Ashutosh: “The Princely State of India“ by Patrick French. As Ashutosh wrote in his email: (It is) Rather long but I read it “atha...

What are you doing this 26th Jan?

Dear Friends, one of my frequest frustrations when explaining the idea behind Freedom Team of India is getting people to udnerstand the need to “Leaders First“. As I mentioned in an email to Sanjeev...