THE BIG BATTLE BY FDI

The US Ambassador came all the way, to declare the battle for the Indian MARKET! So the cat is out of the bag, even though the timing was bad for the ruling coalition. It is American money. So Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh chorused the battle cry, Chamber of Commerce gleefully joining it. It is [...]

FEAR OF FDI IS UNFOUNDED – INDIA IS TOO FEUDAL!

The whole of the subcontinent is feudal, including a handful of Metropolitan Cities. There are a number of vegetable markets in Delhi itself. The petty shop keeper brings vegetables dailyin a trolley, and the house wife finds it convenient to buy from him, even if it is a bit costly. Villages have shops, mostly in [...]

APPRECIATE THE PETTY JOYS OF LIFE

Passing IAS examination, getting a prize for your lottery tickets etc. are rare events for the lucky among us. But we can enjoy petty joys like a beautiful Sun set, the Crescent Moon, a train meandering through the rice fields, an elephant jogging along the road, a chance meeting with a long lost friend, the [...]

FICTION-HAIL FELLOW WELL MET

Those were exciting days! I was working in the Foreign Affairs section of the Central Secretariat in Delhi. I used to give my name for any assignment abroad, mainly to escape from the domination of my mother-in-law. Ultimately, I was sent to Sweden and stayed in Young Women’s Christian Association hostel. The driver attached to [...]

HYSTERIA

I do not think it is a new disease. Now, all are suffering from this mysterious illness. Religious hysteria is no less than war hysteria or any flimsy cause like the death of a cinema hero, causing suicide by a number of fans! I forget whether I had switched off the stove, after locking the [...]

NEUTRINOES FLY FASTER THAN LIGHT?

It is a remarkable discovery. Some researchers have established that neutrinos can travel faster than light. If it is accepted, it will contradict Einstein’s theory that nothing can travel faster than light. Neutrino is the smallest particle ever discovered. It is so small that it can go through the earth, like a bee through the [...]

CONTROVERSY ABOUT DAM 999

It is only a film. Any tendency to censor films or the print media, is highly reprehensible. Authors must enjoy full freedom. DAM 999 reminds of Mullaperiyar dam, which lies in an earthquake prone zone. A number of small tremors have been observed and the Kerala government wants to rebuild it. I do not know [...]

DECISION TO ALLOW 51% FDI IS POLITICAL HARAKIRI

The Government has succumbed to the pressure of foreign multinational companies and decided to allow them to invest in retail shops, up to fifty one percent. The plea is that it will reduce prices, and increase employment opportunities! Any fool will tell you that prices are spiraling because of cost of transport going up. The [...]

BUDGET OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

If a family getting five thousand a month, spends ten thousand, by borrowing money, we say they have no budget. The Central Government is actually spending much more than the income from taxes, mostly for Defence, even though there are no chances of an invasion by our neighbors, we can say the Government has no [...]

OUR TWO HALVES ARE DIFFERENT

Life begins as a single cell called the oozote. Then it splits into two, the resultant cells being different in many ways. If the first generation cells get detached, we get twins, who can easily be recognized by the mother, which shows that they are not identical! This difference persists and the result is two [...]