10 December2021 While it is always too early to write about the legacy of a person who donned the mantle of India’s first CDS, General Rawat, was as much a person of his circumstances as he was an artful survivor of the system that produces India’s military bureaucracy and what we call as ‘leadership’. That […]
Tag: Administrative Reforms for India
8 May 2021 It is very easy for Indians now to give up. It seems that our problems are not just because of now, but because for decades we have evaded the investment that our health warranted and our private sector did not get the kind of incentives it needed to step up to the […]
29 April 2021 It was astonishing to hear the Apex Court being informed by the Solicitor General that Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Mr Amit Shah were personally supervising the supply of Oxygen across the country’s hospitals that were struggling for it and equally to hear that the draconian NSA had been slapped on […]
2021 India’s Destination 3
30 December 2020 ‘Divorce or Discovery?’ So where are we headed now? We are now in a ‘each person to themselves’ situation, one made politically palatable by our Prime Minister using the Atmanirbhar slogan! Folks more astutely observing the political scenario are warning that we are heading toward some kind of bottomless abyss, which is […]
7 December 2020 Part II: Why are we trapped, feeling safe in status quo versus the prospect of better future through reform. Actually I can say the Farm Trilogy is a tragedy because of timing. India had missed the bus in UPA2, when she could have done this in a calibrated manner, but for guttural […]
13 September 2020 One of the interesting proposals of the INC Manifesto in the last Lok Sabha polls of 2019 was to have directly elected Mayorship for initially major cities and towns with populations well over 10 million and based on the experience to slowly bring it down to every municipal limit, with crucial difference […]