Category: Politics and Governance

A “broken” democracy…

Just came across this quote by Al Gore (asking people become more directly involved in climate change) in TIME Magazine*. You can pretty much say the same things about our political situation and governance…It...

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...

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...

“It’s the Demography, Stupid” – by Mark Steyn

From Wall Street Journal’s Op_Ed page, Jan 4 ’06 – a real wake up call… ******************** It’s the Demography, Stupid The real reason the West is in danger of extinction. BY MARK STEYN Wednesday,...