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...
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...
INDIA’S ENERGY FAMINE 2: TOWARDS A SOLAR WORLD
Exploitation of solar can transform India from an energy starved to an energy abundant country. It will mean new ways of generating power as well as changes in lifestyle in homes and workplaces. More than money, More...
Official Apathy towards Culture inIndia
Guest Column by Anirban Ganguly Culture and cultural institutions in India have begun to bear the brunt of official apathy. In a strange turn of events the present government has reduced the allocation for 2012-13 More...
Democracy in India: First Fifty Years (Part 1)
The evolution of Indian democracy in the first fifty years as seen from two perspectives— social and political. National parties have yielded to Mandalized politics leading to the rise of regional parties. Navaratna More...
India can grow by nine percent through PPP: Pranab
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Kolkata (IANS) – Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said India has the potential to achieve nine percent growth, provided public-private partnership (PPP) More...
For poor and rich,just another day
By Kanchan Gupta There are fond memories that we cherish and nurse, often recalling them to relive memorable moments of our past. And there are bad memories that remind us of events we wish had never occurred, memories More...
Remembering Ram Swarup
By Dr Koenraad Elst The wittiest mind in Delhi In the long run, Ram Swarup will probably prove to have been the most influential thinker in the second half of the 20th century. He has, at any rate, been a crucial More...
