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Enlisting Nandan Nilekani should only be the first step…

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

There is no excuse left for the Government of India not to do what it needs to do. Dr Manmohan Singh is no Indira Gandhi; he has a very fine brain. Sonia Gandhi is no Indira Gandhi; she lets others use their brain. Rahul Gandhi is no Indira Gandhi either, he actually uses his brains. [...]

Filed under: Indian Economy, Indian Politics | Tagged: cog-in-the-wheel, Dr. Manmohan Singh, entrenched interests, Government of India, Imagining India, Indira Gandhi, Kapil Sibel, Left Front, Ministry of External Affairs, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Nandan Nilekani, NDTV, Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, Shweta Rajpal Kohli, Sonia Gandhi, sophisticated Indian voter, tamper-proof ID card, Unique Identification Authority of India, Unique Identification Card | Leave a Comment »

China is emerging as a major “loudmouth” of Asia

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

China would never match the erstwhile Soviet Union; forget about emerging as a world-power. The United States of America always needs a rival to compare its prowess and for that reason they first hype-up a potential adversary and then go all out and demolish it. China is too dumb to understand this simple superpower game. [...]

Filed under: Indo-China relations, International | Tagged: "advanced political system", "loudmouth" of Asia, Asia, “Why China is mad at India”, China, Global Times, Indira Gandhi, Indrani Bagchi, loudmouth, Pakistan, Soviet Union, surgery on Pakistan, The Times of India, The United States of America, three monkeys | Leave a Comment »

Kapil Sibal could harvest the demographic dividend

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Twenty years back when we left India, Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi used to consider India’s exploding population as a major national liability. Their successors, P V Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Dr Manmohan Singh converted this liability into a global human capital. How could this happen and that too virtually overnight? [...]

Filed under: Indian Economy, Indian Infrastructure, Indian Politics | Tagged: Arjun Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, demographic dividend, Dr. Manmohan Singh, global human capital, Harvard Law School, India, India's exploding population, India’s growing human capital, Indira Gandhi, Kapil Sibal, major national liability, Minister for Human Resource Development, Nehru-Gandhi cabal, P V Narasimha Rao, Prime Ministers of India, Rajiv Gandhi, Vijay Srinivasan | 1 Comment »

The troubled states of India!

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

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 [...]

Filed under: Indian Politics | Tagged: Akalis, Central Government, Chief Minister, Chief Minister of Punjab, Congress, Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, federal government, goonda raj, Gujarat, independent states, India, Indian States, Indira Gandhi, Karnataka, Kashmir, Maharashtra, Nehru, Prakash Singh Badal, Punjab, Rahul Gandhi, sensitive border state, State Governments, state legislators, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Tamil Nadu, The troubled states of India, West Bengal | 1 Comment »

My compliments to UPA for keeping off Sri Lanka

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government must be complemented for helping the Sri Lankan government crush the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) movement. There was so much pressure on his government from their DMK allies to intervene but Dr Singh stood firm. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi is a crook [...]

Filed under: Indian Politics, Indo-Sri Lankan relations, International | Tagged: 'Gateway to India', America, Bangladesh, Bengali, Bhutan, Burma, China, DMK, India's national security, Indian National Congress, Indira Gandhi, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, M Karunanidhi, Nepal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan government, Tamil jingoism, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, third world country, United Progressive Alliance, UPA, Velupillai Prabhakaran | Leave a Comment »

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