It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
Politics and governance are both in Ashwamedha mode. Unrelenting, unceasing. Power the ultimate aphrodisiac. The pandemic is an especially grim challenge, true, but there are so many other domains where this model is hurting. The poor most of all. There are in fact many fine people in the bureaucracy who can deliver far superior outcomes.
I am praying for CM Vijayan … 2. Science is the answer to our prayers. Those comforting words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi have stayed with me over the last year. The vaccines, medical care for those who have been infected, everything valuable has come from science and technology. Only placebos from the god men. 3. India shedding its scientific temper, religion becoming an intrusive presence in the public sphere as well, not taking us to the First World. Give me the spiritual Sikhs, any day, setting up langars, offering sanctuary and respite to those in distress.
Politics and governance are both in Ashwamedha mode. Unrelenting, unceasing. Power the ultimate aphrodisiac. The pandemic is an especially grim challenge, true, but there are so many other domains where this model is hurting. The poor most of all. There are in fact many fine people in the bureaucracy who can deliver far superior outcomes.
I am praying for CM Vijayan … 2. Science is the answer to our prayers. Those comforting words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi have stayed with me over the last year. The vaccines, medical care for those who have been infected, everything valuable has come from science and technology. Only placebos from the god men. 3. India shedding its scientific temper, religion becoming an intrusive presence in the public sphere as well, not taking us to the First World. Give me the spiritual Sikhs, any day, setting up langars, offering sanctuary and respite to those in distress.