IT
is ironical that on the eve of the 72nd Indian Independence Day, the Supreme
Court of India should be witness to hearing of a petition by over 300 serving
army personnel across ranks, appealing against the dilution of the Armed Forces
Special Powers Act (AFSPA). The petitioners contend they ‘believe that
sovereignty, security and integrity of the nation is at higher pedestal than
even the Constitution of India’ and that the ultimate sacrifice required of a
soldier ‘cannot be sustained under a state of confusion or cloud as to the
bonafide duty itself’.
September 10, 2018
Governance : Development Agenda for New India 2022
THE
NITI Aayog was expected to introduce the draft development agenda for New India
2022 at the June 17 meeting of its Governing Council. But it didn’t as it
reportedly felt that the draft development agenda should be sent to the States
for getting their detailed inputs. My take on this is that India needs high GDP
growth which is inclusive and is consistent with a sustainable balance of
payments situation.
Governance : Time to cash in
INDIA
is undergoing a period of prodigious change, things are being looked at from a
whole new perspective and rural India, is today, at the heart of many
government policies and initiatives. In all this, the Prime Minister’s
passionate appeal of doubling farmer’s income assumes a game changing role. To
my mind, this can become even more attainable if we look at the tremendous
potential that cash crops have to offer.
Governance : Too much noise
WITH
the publication of the RBI Annual
Report, giving the number and value of demonetised notes coming back to the
chests of the Central Bank, the issue whether demonetisation (note bandi) has
been a success or failure has come up for
discussion in public domain in a big way and some persons like Rahul
Gandhi, President of main opposition party (Congress) has greatly criticised
note bandi saying that it has pushed back GDP growth substantially to the
detriment of common people, benefitting only 15-20 people, who are close to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This article considers how far such criticism is
valid and justified.
Corruption : FROM RAJ TO RAFALE – 1 : Clive of Corruption
BY
the third quarter of the 18th century, there was one word in Britain that was
both loved and hated, and reviled and admired. The word was Nabobs. They were
not the usual Nawabs, who ruled small and large territories in India. They were
the junior and senior servants of the East India Company, who came back with
huge riches from Hindoostan, bought expensive town houses and huge tracts of
rural land, and bribed their way to political power, or a seat in British
Parliament. The Nabobs became a part of neo-aristocracy that threatened the old
order.
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