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India is celebrated as a democracy by large numbers of Indians. We are the world’s largest democracy. We place ourselves in the company of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany and many other democratic countries. There are problems in Pakistan but there is fully functional democracy in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka….
The outward symptom of an inward crisis
Until a few years ago, it was called fog, when the cold moisture hung in the air reducing visibility. Flight and train delays…
The hassle of finding happiness
In my mid-sixties now, I can claim to have seen the four generations starting with that of my parents, born before independence. Few would make it to …
India 2024: Two roads are diverging, which one do we take?
Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum in their 2011 book ‘That Used to be Us’ described five pillars of prosperity that together made…
What’s new about New India?
On the surface, V.S. Naipaul’s book India: A Wounded Civilization, seems negative. But when I read it again, in the course of my writing India 3.0, I realised the depth of Naipaul’s writing…
The whirlpool of India’s GDP
Everybody is crying out about an impending slowdown. Headlines like those of the GDP growth plummeting, the stock market nose-diving, nobody buying cars any more, and so many thousands losing their jobs…
Who runs the world?
If this world is a machine, then who is the ghost in the machine? Who runs this world is an old question with answers that keep changing with time…
The Inheritance of Independence
India has a rich tradition of worshipping a Personal God. In the Vedic tradition, God was seen in the Natural Forces – Sun, Wind, Water, and so on. Then came the Upanishads and the idea of God as an impersonal force – unseen, omnipresent….
Open a Book, Open a Mind…
India has a rich tradition of worshipping a Personal God. In the Vedic tradition, God was seen in the Natural Forces – Sun, Wind, Water, and so on. Then came the Upanishads and the idea of God as an impersonal force – unseen, omnipresent….
Times have changed, so has God
India has a rich tradition of worshipping a Personal God. In the Vedic tradition, God was seen in the Natural Forces – Sun, Wind, Water, and so on. Then came the Upanishads and the idea of God as an impersonal force – unseen, omnipresent….