MMS Speech

Below is the speech, our mumbling Prime Minister, MMS, made in the Parliament two days after India’s 65th Independence Day. I have officially named him as ‘mumbler on the roof’, as an ode to Nero. So while average Indias are boiling in anger, our mumbler on the roof, chooses to make mumbling speeches and statements. [...]

Corrupt Governance

Growing up in India, one always was aware of the corrupt environment. It was difficult not to see or interface with it. India of the 80′s, was vastly different from the India today. Teaming population, that included a huge middle class that had little or no purchasing power. A structured economy, where most employed and [...]

What were we thinking?

The planners and masters that run the government were hard at work for the last many months, in try to get the Nuclear Liability Bill passed. But unfortunately they had a series of mishaps that resulted in a circus, exposing the real workings of a democracy. A government of some people, by some people, for [...]

Telangana – a divided Andhra Pradesh

I am not a telugu and am not from coastal, rayalseema or telangana, in fact i am not from Andra Pradesh. But i am Indian and i think i want to have a say in these matters. This is unfortunate, to start with, and completely shameful, to say the least. The way in which the [...]

victims of ‘rape’

The last couple of days, comments from an Congress politician in India, caused a furor there, resulting in an arrest and the usual filing of charges for defamatory speeches. It was uttered by one woman to another, about a crime that is peculiarly hurting to women only, ‘rape’. Taking a dig at the compensation being [...]

Elections in India 2009

Finally after almost of 2 months of poll preparedness, the elections in the largest democracy in the world, India, is now complete. The electorate, long considered susceptible to the power of money, liquor, power and influence, has once again shown that they are not. From the times of the first elections in the new India, [...]

Gandhi and his message

I have debated and discussed about the effects of Gandhiji and his teachings, philosphy, life and message with many of my friends and family. There are many in India, while acknowledging his message about ahimsa, do question if that was the way to accomplish freedom from the British, or more importantly the role he played [...]

Jharkhand – March 2nd 2005 – What a Farce !!

What was the hurry ? Why this desperate urgency to form a government, when the party has not got the required seats to claim majority. Forget the numbers, how about a moral majority. Who am i talking about ? What is different now? Well the perception that the Indian Politician is also transistionin from a [...]