Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Year of RTI and RTI activists
2010 will be remembered as the Year of RTI. Thanks to the idealism of RTI activists who have taken on the corruption malaise in the Indian Polity. They have proved once again that Idealists too can win sometimes. It was heartwarming to see people like A. Raja, Karunanidhi, Kanimozhi and the entire congress party cornered by these "commoners who doesn't matter" in Indian Society.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
India is a banana republic - Ratan Tata
What is a Banana Republic ?
According to wikipedia:
Banana republic is a term that refers to a politically unstable country dependent upon limited agriculture (e.g. bananas), and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and (but not necessarily) corrupt politico-economic clique.[1] The original concept of banana republic was a direct reference to a "servile dictatorship" that abetted (or supported for kickbacks) the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation.[1] As a political science term banana republic is a descriptor first used by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of related short stories derived from his 1896–97 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from the U.S. law for bank embezzlement in the U.S.[2]
We should all thank Ratan Tata for this insight on Indian Condition
According to wikipedia:
Banana republic is a term that refers to a politically unstable country dependent upon limited agriculture (e.g. bananas), and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and (but not necessarily) corrupt politico-economic clique.[1] The original concept of banana republic was a direct reference to a "servile dictatorship" that abetted (or supported for kickbacks) the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation.[1] As a political science term banana republic is a descriptor first used by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of related short stories derived from his 1896–97 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from the U.S. law for bank embezzlement in the U.S.[2]
We should all thank Ratan Tata for this insight on Indian Condition
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