Category Archives: governance

Education: Autonomy, Sibal, and Suicide News from IIT

Posted on July 16, 2009 by indra

This was a bad morning. I went through a bad news from my IIT, Kharagpur on the website of Telegraph, Kolkata. “Yogendra Kumar Singh, 18, a resident of Noida, a first-year student of IIT Kharagpur, committed suicide. According to the … Continue reading →

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Obama and Man Mohan- Mismatch in Priorities

Posted on July 15, 2009 by indra

Man Mohan has gone confident. He is behaving as a true prime minister out of the shadow of Sonia Gandhi. However, are his priorities to visit Italy to attend G-8 and then Paris and Egypt instead of concentrating on domestic … Continue reading →

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Higher education: Shining or Messy

Posted on July 10, 2009 by indra

Many times I get greatly impressed while glancing through the newspapers and magazines. Many private educational institutes and universities for higher education are spending huge money on ads. Quite a few such as Amity go for full-page ads. News magazines … Continue reading →

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Power Outages -My Solutions

Posted on July 9, 2009 by indra

Karan Thapar wrote a column on power outages in New Delhi. I don’t know why it took so long for him to write on the subject that since decades has been of the top most national importance. It reminded me … Continue reading →

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India’s Budgetary Gimmicks

Posted on July 7, 2009 by indra

Many times I fail to understand why I and many Indians keep waiting so eagerly to watch and hear the annual ritual of the Government’s presentation of the country’s budget. It hardly helps any honest individual. Let us look at … Continue reading →

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A Letter for Pranab Babu

Posted on June 23, 2009 by indra

You for one can appreciate the pains of the middle class Indians, particularly the salaried employees. It is unfortunate that this class toils hard to take the country ahead, but gets so little in return. It keeps on giving the … Continue reading →

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Can India and U.S Move Together?

Posted on June 19, 2009 by indra

Obama discourages American companies to outsource to India, and moves towards a stringent policy of granting H-1B visas. American companies are still hesitant to collaborate on high tech products with its counterparts in India. USA keeps on hurting the Indians … Continue reading →

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A PM for Power Ministry

Posted on June 14, 2009 by indra

Power situation in India has been grim for decades. I remember how in late 60s- 80s the dismal power situation at Hindustan Motors made our life miserable. Our task at the factory was to keep on closing and starting machines … Continue reading →

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IIT -The Dream Destination of Young India

Posted on May 27, 2009 by indra

Noida, Monday, May 25, 10 PM: I normally go to bed by this time. But it had started raining and as usual the power had gone off. Yamuna asked me to check if I had locked the main gate. As … Continue reading →

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Verdict 2009: Priority Power

Posted on May 25, 2009 by indra

Can the new government focus on the two most needed infrastructure priorities- power and road that can put the country on real fast track of development? Perhaps that was the intention when the Manmohan’s government prepared the 11th Plan (2007-12) … Continue reading →

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