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Attracting diaspora to address India’s higher education faculty gap
Pic: courtesy hebrewhistory.info [Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on my other blog (TechSangam) - republishing here since it's clearly relevant to the Return to India meme. Earlier...
View ArticleWhy Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district village
This story (from Verghese Kurien’s I too had a dream) continues from When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village..unannounced..in 1964. He visited the huts of Harijans in the village. He...
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Kargil Vijay Diwas 2012: 13 Years Later
Pic: courtesy indiatimes.com Two years ago, I created this commemorative photo blog on Kargil Vijay Diwas, featuring the brave officers who won the war for India. This year, I decided to share links to...
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Prime Minister is like the great banyan tree…
No – not the current ‘great’ Dr. Manmohan Singh. In Ambassador’s Journal, John Kenneth Galbraith writes about many interesting things during his tenure as US Ambassador to India. The journal entry from...
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Unspecialized and rotating authority of civil service
In an earlier post, Rebooting IAS an essential part of Reforms 2.0 on my other blog, I had summarized a LiveMint article which outlined the key systemic problems with the IAS cadre. A few fixes have...
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Nehru’s pride, Indo-American relationship and the Indo-China war
Pic courtesy ibnlive.in.com Gurcharan Das, in his book India Unbound, makes a pithy statement. When individuals make blunders, it’s sad but when leaders make blunders, it’s a tragedy. He was referring...
View ArticleCrime does not pay – a rebooting manifesto
It’s been over a week since a hapless young medical student was brutally gang-raped and mercilessly beaten to within a micro-inch of her life. In this glorious nation’s capital.. inside a moving...
View ArticleOn heroes, martyrs, and beheadings…
Shared on my friend’s Facebook wall – a point of view from an army man (friend’s friend) who has served at the LOC (don’t know when or for how long). Provides a fresh perspective on what exactly the...
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On a nation with drastically low expectations
Pic: courtesy icms.net Three tweets from @albatrossinfo (RT’d by CentreRight India’s Prasanna Viswanathan) caught my attention this evening. https://twitter.com/albatrossinfo/status/301350525859926018...
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Rise of small town India
Pic courtesy flickr/Google [Editor’s Note: The piece below was penned by Akshay Garg, former co-founder at Komli Media. It appeared on his Facebook feed and I’m republishing here with his permission....
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