The day after ANNA
Why the recent mobilisation of the youth and the country on corruption could end in a whimper if the correct lessons are not sought. And, how political reform and citizen engagement are the real solutions. It has now been analyzed threadbare that what looked like a comprehensive outpouring of public sympathy for Anna Hazare’s … Read more
Honesty Vs Dynasty
How a Gandhi-capped octogenarian is spinning webs around the Congress in a bid to squeeze out the poison of corruption from the system, and how the 150-year party recoils at the idea and how its leaders refuse to give up their old ways. The UPA Government’s faux bravado and final capitulation in the face … Read more
India and the Idea of Identity.
Written to commemorate India’s sixty-third year of Independence, this post argues that without a well defined sense of identity, nations fail to be great. And that Nehruvian political tradition has asphyxiated our natural oeuvre. Sixty Three years after independence, even as we ponder what we have made of this nation, there will be tributes to … Read more
