Category: Politics and Governance

What is Freedom? – by Sanjeev Sabhlok

Continuing the promised series of articles by Sanjeev Sabhlok, here is Sanjeev on Freedom. Please note that the emphasis is mine. Freedom first A country is jointly created by its citizens through a social contract...

Obama and the Pakistan Connection – The Missing Bits

I was alerted to this article earlier yesterday. It raises some hard (and disturbing) questions about the purpose and the context of US President-Elect Obama’s visit to Pakistan in the early 80s. Some excerpts...

“Maharashtranomics” and Bihar – Part II

Following up on my earlier post, here is a neat table titled “Index of Fiscal Self Reliance”. It comes from Annexure 7 (Annex 7.10, Para 7.33) to the 12th Finance Commission Report [pdf file]....

Will we get such a leader?

From “The Leader We Deserve” by Michael Kinsley…Although the article is about Obama, McCain and the US, it could have easily been written for India. Peace and prosperity. During the last decade of the 20th...