When Indo-US N deal was made, there were voices: It made India and US closer! India can leverage support from US in case of any Pak overt or covert action! India can counter China with the help of US! US respects India as a responsible Nuclear nation! Really!? All these within no time are changing. The geo-political equations are volatile with US- ( Read more... )

The national democratic process is increasingly becoming localized. Local issues dominate. Local politics of caste dominate. Local parties dominate. This is a serious threat to the nation, as no one discusses issues on pan-India basis. The security, economy, foreign policy gets compromised for the local goonda politics. The solution is to change ( Read more... )

Bofors scandal was basically of huge bribing to then Rajiv Gandhi Government compromising security and vital national interests. With a lot of evidences, brought on by the active media, it brought down the government then (in 1986). One would naturally expect that the Bofors case to be closed and the guilty punished. Far from it, the present ( Read more... )

I always appreciated Karan Thapar for his aggressive style of interviewing. His razor sharp logic of cornering the guests on their statements, directing the interview on his topic of questioning without any divulging thoughts are just good. His interview with Arun Jaitley is the one I like the most. (Available in Youtube). The interviewer should ( Read more... )

Arun Shourie's writtings in The Indian Express packed with evidence, uncompromising, prophetic - on the issues that are consuming the country today: evaporation of governance and what it spells for internal security; developments in Pakistan, the breathing time they give us; what the achievements of China spell for us, and what we must do to face ( Read more... )

Seeing the chance in the coming Lok Sabha Elections, these groups are uniting, so that they get reservation from political parties in all sectors: judiciary, private sector, education etc. And obviously they will unitedly trade their votes for that. The issue is not whether it
is good or bad, the issue in democracy is, you can get things done by ( Read more... )