Policy Watch – National Health Policy 2017 – Hits and Misses !!!
Affordable and good health care – wherever it comes from – should be the only guiding principle. […]
Polity Watch – Can You Really Hack EVMs?
A lot has been said about the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in India, most recently by those who lost in the recent Assemble elections. While it is the finally the duty of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to dispel these rumours relating to EVMs being manipulated or ‘hacked’, let [...]
Polity Watch – Hurting Brand India With Distortions !!!
*Disclaimer – This is an editorial written by Mohandas Pai, he was the CFO and then the head of HR at Infosys. He is now Chairman, Aarin Capital Partners. He usually writes for many newspapers including thehindu, Indian express etc. Please also note that, we are publishing this as-is without any [...]
Polity Watch – Many meanings of corruption !!!
Everybody agrees that judgments, and accompanying interim orders, should not be sold and bought for a price. But other surrounding concepts await deeper analysis. […]
Polity Watch – Corruption in high Places – The churning of Tamilnadu Politics!!!
Corruption in high places is a malaise that is easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. Even in the rare cases they are arraigned before a court, top politicians often pay their way through legal battles, and spend little or no time in incarceration. And as with the churning, it [...]
Polity Watch – Grammar of Anarchy and Ambedkar !!!
Five Excerpts From Ambedkar’s Historic ‘Grammar of Anarchy’ Speech On 25 November 1949, a day before the Constitution was formally adopted by the Constituent Assembly, BR Ambedkar rose in the central hall of the Parliament and almost in a prophetic tone delivered a speech which is described as amongst the [...]
Society Watch – Bowing down to patriarchy !!!
Background – Nehru once said, “Let the people develop according to their own intellect”, as a reference to allow the tribes of North-East region and especially the “Naga tribe” the autonomy to chart their own course of life and have their own customary laws. This reflected in the constitutional provisions as [...]
Editorial – Policy Watch – Parliamentary Committee recommends for a National Policy on Forest Fires !!!
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, under the Chairpersonship of Renuka Chowdhury, Member of Parliament presented its Two Hundred and Ninety-third Report on ‘Forest Fires and its Effect on Environment, Forests, Bio-diversity and Wildlife and remedial/preventive measures’ to both the Houses of Parliament on [...]
Editorial – Policy Watch – Natural Gas For Fertiliser: Development Imperatives !!!
India’s massive demand for natural gas is a result of its easy substitution of liquid fuels such as naphtha, fuel oil, diesel etc. India at present is producing less than 100 million standard cubic meter per day (MMSCMD) and another 50 MMSCMD is imported as liquefied natural gas (LNG) (Fertiliser [...]