The sitter of a catch is dropped by the most agile of fielders, is stating the obvious in cricketing analogy of how even the best possible outcome is not always surety. What caused a situation where if one takes away the optics or the high adrenalin cries of neglect, a financial tangle for the Government, […]
Failure of Thailand
The perils of a Democracy where there is no choice is signalled by the desperation in toying with the idea of an irreproachable figure by Thakshin Shinawatra and Yingluck in their now aborted attempt to anoint the King’s sister as their candidate for Prime Minister. There is no greater red letter warning than the desire […]
Soon after the Manmohan Singh Government quit office, there were a series of articles and social media posts, what was actually well known to those who roamed India’s streets and farms- that India had experienced once of its best growth phases since Independence. But one of the greatest disservices done by Dr Manmohan Singh as […]
One of the failure of successive governments is to reform the military industrial complex that has left India as a servile importer of weaponry and substandard producer of munitions and systems. While the new DPP 2016 allows for more private participation, there is a need to understand how if India had not amended its telecom […]
Noting & Voting!
The controversy apparently is now self sustaining, for a series of news paper articles have emerged from The Hindu as a mainstream newspaper, besides articles by The Wire and other web based media. Col Ajai Shukla (Retd) was along with Mr Rahul Gandhi, the lone rangers of Rafale Deal, and many imputed that he was […]
DNA of Political India
I was surprised to see how media was reacting to the use of NSA on some cow heisting folk in MP, and how they were skinning the calf Mr Rahul Gandhi along with the bull Mr Kamal Nath, accusing them of betraying the mandate and ideology of their political moorings. These folk could not be […]
Credibly Edible & Sealed!
Just imagine if CM West Bengal has been provoked with a CBI raid on her DGP by UPA government who would have sprung to her defence first? CM Gujarat, Mr Modi. This happened in 2013, and in one famous speech thereafter, Mr Modi called the CBI -Congress Bureau of Investigation! So for all those political […]
When was the last time Sri Anna Hazare fasted and almost no one took notice of it? One of the biggest favours India owes to Mr Modi is how this government has managed to neutralise this Grand Disrupter who was unfortunately labeled a Gandhian and ascribed every manner of political virtue when he set about […]
The Mirage 2000 crash at HAL complex cost two young test pilot lives and it is tragic how we have in one flash of this crash, labelled the French aircraft- the MiG21 of now! Calls have emerged calling for grounding of the fleet, of suspending the HAL from having any involvement in maintenance of IAF […]
Remember how it was, the heady euphoria that finally we were on our way to a great global power we deserve to be? That was 2014, when all the talk in the air was of major economic reforms, about how India would enter high double digit GDP growth trajectory and be an all conquering force. […]