Let us pay attention to the Maoist movement

Could China be encouraging the Maoist Movement in India? This possibility should not be ruled out. Every insurgency requires significant financial support besides a regular supply of arms and ammunition. Poor tribals and destitute farmers can not afford such sustained effort over decades. Who else but China benefits from such bleeding of India? The recent [...]

Indian economy could grow at 8% in 2009-10

Reserve Bank of India expects the Indian economy to grow @ 6% in the financial year 2009-10. The Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee on the other hand is much more optimistic and pegs the rate of growth at 7%. The Planning Commission of India said that a 7.4 % growth rate is possible for the current [...]

The troubled states of India!

India is a union of 28 fairly independent states governed by elected state legislators and a Chief Minister. In the initial stages of our republic, Nehru and Indira Gandhi used to treat the States as their personal fiefdom but for the past two decades, the Central Government has kept its hands off the administration of [...]

The Hindi Heartland is not India!

A total disconnect between the Hindi Heartland and the South India is shocking. The politicians of North and specifically the Cow Belt are so far removed from the India of Gandhi Ji and Pandit Nehru that it does not feel like one country. How many times has Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia [...]

The Muslim Karigars of India need capital

The farmers of India are predominantly Hindus or Sikhs but the vast majority of Karigars (artisans) are Muslims. Every 5 years the farmers of India get a big bonus from the ‘Central Government’ in Delhi to court their votes. The Muslim Karigars are left high and dry! If at all the ‘Muslims of India’ get [...]

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