My CAN-I Thought Process!: Politics Archives

May 01, 2007

HESA Elections

Today I got an email about Harvard Extension Student Association Election. the details of the election are at HES website: http://hesa.dce.harvard.edu/. I am very excited to know that one of my classmate Carlos De La Rosa is running for HESA Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:05 AM

August 24, 2005

Rajat Gupta Interviews Manmohan Singh

Rajat Gupta interview Dr. Manmohan Singh for The McKinsey Quarterly about India's economic agenda: An interview with Manmohan Singh. An interview worth reading to get an insight into this genius persons thinking process. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:25 PM

March 17, 2005

Saurabh Narayan Singh - Running for Assembly Election

Suhit pointed me to this news item on rediff:'Educated people should come into politics' He is 29, studied at Doon School and Delhi University and did his MBA from Australia. He speaks English with an accent and looks like one Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:27 PM

December 18, 2004

History of Naxalbari

With inputs from T Sunil Reddy in Hyderabad and Binay Kumar Singh in Varanasi, The Times of India has an interesting article about The Rising: Naxalbari to now 1967 : Peasants' uprising at Naxalbari in Darjeeling. Many cadres and leaders Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:30 PM

November 23, 2004

Politics of Noble Prize

Is the formidable institution of the Nobel, which seems to glory in human endeavour, governed by a Eurocentric vision or by extra-meritorious considerations? Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was never awarded a Nobel, nor did he ever lobby for it. But Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:56 PM

October 13, 2004

Naxalism - Democracy

A phenomenon is going on in Andhra Pradesh. The new congress govt. under the aegis of Hon. C.M Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara reddy, has made tremendous progress in bringing the Naxalites to the discussion table. The leaders of the movement who Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:50 PM

India's senseless battle in Siachen

India's senseless battle in Siachen - Sify.com By Gurmeet Kanwal It is senseless to be fighting on Siachen, the world’s highest and coldest battlefield. No one understands this better than the Indian Army, which was, in 1984, asked to rush Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:51 PM

September 24, 2004

Law is getting misued - Lets Scrap it, huh!

Source: Hello, Mr Terrorist, please come in by Prakash Singh. The writer is former director general of the BSF, ex-UP and Assam DGP. The Government of India has approved ordinances to withdraw the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), 2002, and Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:14 PM

September 20, 2004

India may offer LoC adjustment

Source: 'India may offer LoC adjustment' - Sify.com Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed India's willingness to find solutions "rooted in ground realities" to all outstanding issues with Pakistan including Jammu and Kashmir, says Time magazine, which quotes an unnamed Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:53 PM

July 16, 2004

Michael Moore - Pls make a documentary on Abu Grahib

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore is a wonderful documentary. After reading the post at Jivha's Blog, I felt that there is a strong need for a documentary of the same scale on Abu Ghraib prison Michael Moore will you do Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:04 PM

Sting docu bares UK's racist party

British officialdom has promised to bring the country's leading far-right, anti-Asian, anti-immigration and anti-Muslim party to book after an unusual BBC undercover television documentary exposed the British National Party (BNP) as violently "anti-Paki", the UK term for all brown-skinned people. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:29 PM

June 13, 2004

Why do Bihari politicians so love the railway ministry?

Check the numbers. The government of India employs 3.6 million people; of these 1.6 million are in the railways, the world’s single largest employer. Indian Railways earns Rs 40,000 crore every year, spends Rs 44,000 crore. It is India’s biggest Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:23 PM

May 07, 2004

India's Missing Jobs

Via Rajesh Jain: India's economy is spawning a growing middle class, a host of world-class companies, a booming stock market and a new image for this nation of more than one billion people. But those very reforms and conditions are Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:04 PM

April 21, 2004

Letter from Mody

For my posting Warrants against Kalam, Chief Justice in my blog, I got a letter from Mr. Mody who claims to be whistle blower. Here is the letter: I feel very happy that you are posting topics of current affairs Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:30 PM

February 03, 2004

US budget doles out $15-m for India, $300-m for Pak

The US budget proposals unveiled by President George W Bush includes $564 million in aid for South Asia, the bulk of it for Pakistan and Afghanistan and a comparitively miniscule amount for India. The 2005 budget proposes USD 15 million Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:19 PM

January 29, 2004

'We were all wrong' - Kay got guts to Say to Bush about Iraq

''We were all wrong'' — Iraq had no remaining arsenals of germ-warfare weapons, no poison gas or a nuclear-weapons program, the White House's former chief weapons sleuth said yesterday, a stunning indictment of U.S. and Western intelligence agencies that Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:14 AM

January 25, 2004

America Diconnected from the rest of the world

The recent speech of Dick Cheney at World Economic Forum, concentrated on terrorism. But, a funny thing has happened. While the war on terrorism has dominated headlines, the great engine of globalization has kept moving. And it seems America clearly, Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:32 AM

January 24, 2004

Why the rich fear globalisation

A very interesting article by Surjit S Bhalla: Why the rich fear globalisation. He wrote a book Imagine there's no country: Poverty, Inequality and Growth in the era of Globalization Excerpts: During the twenty years pre-globalisation period (1960-1980), per capita Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:57 PM

January 22, 2004

'If Vajpayee, Musharraf bring peace, they will deserve Nobel'

Source: The Hindu News Update Service If Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, succeed in settling the Kashmir issue and bring peace to the region, they will deserve the Nobel peace prize, a leading American Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:14 PM

BOP - The Blogging Of The President 2004

BOP 2004(The Blogging Of The President 2004) link "The Blogging of the President: 2004" – A Live Campaign Special with Christopher Lydon Sunday, January 25, 8 to 10 p.m. on KERA 90.1 "The Blogging of the President: 2004," is a Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:11 AM

January 21, 2004

For Priyanka And Rahul - Politics on cards for sure!

Main man bana rahi hoon par kab tak faisla karongi yeh pata nahi hai (I am giving it a thought, but cannot say when will I make the final decision)," she said, adding that her decision could take one Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:51 PM