SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF 10 JANPATH
Following their return from Pakistan Sarabjit Singh’s relatives have charged that the Sonia-Manmohan Singh Government failed to support them and put no pressure on the Pakistani Government to stop its atrocities. This is consistent with Sonia Gandhi’s decades-long deference to Islamist forces even in the face of the most severe provocation. This More...
The return of Maut Ka Saudagar
Column by N.S. Rajaram Perhaps unnerved by Rahul Gandhi’s fiasco of the speech at the CII, and the simultaneous rise of Narendra Modi, the Congress is increasingly resorting to personal attacks. Recently, it has More...
Pakistan is crumbling, Is India Prepared?
Reports from Pakistan indicate that institutions of the state are heading for collapse. The Indian leadership represented by the inept troika of Sonia-Manmohan-Rahul seems indifferent, concerned about protecting More...
The Nano Revolution 2: Learning from Biosystems
While humans have been experimenting for centuries, nature has been doing it for millions of years. Biological systems are far superior to human creations when it comes to using nature’s gifts like sun’s energy. More...
The Nano Revolution 1: Playing With Atoms
Just as genetic engineering has led to the creation of modified crops, nanotechnology will enable us to create materials tailored to meet specific needs by working with atoms. First of a series of columns on Nano More...
Mankind’s Greatest Invention: Numbers to Computers
An invention, unlike a discovery must be entirely a human creation. Fire was a discovery while mathematics was an invention. The greatest invention was the ‘modern’ number system based on the zero and the More...
No more Mr. Clean II: The Coalgate Conspiracy
The UPA Government’s OPERATION COALGATE, selling off thorium, as well as starving the solar power sector was a deliberate plan to create energy scare and sign the Indo-U.S. deal to sell obsolete nuclear technology More...
Tribhuvandas Patel & Making of AMUL
While sixty years of ‘planning’ by the Planning Commission has been an expensive failure, the grassroots approach taken by Tribhuvandas Patel has made India milk abundant. As India goes solar, it should learn More...
Beyond Corruption II – Degradation Begets Dysfunction
Column by Navaratna S. Rajaram - The dysfunction of the state was facilitated by a systematic degradation of the values and institutions of the nation. This has encouraged the elite and the leaders to prosper by More...
Beyond Corruption: A Dysfunctional State
Corruption in India has now reached a point when it is not only plundering national wealth on a scale not seen before even institutions of the state have been turned into tools of plunder and national degradation. Writes More...
