World-Me-My viewpoint

During the last one week there were 2-3 news items which show how the heads of governments are splurging the public money. Chief Minister of the State of Telangana wants to spend government money to fulfill the vows made to several gods  There was a news item in the local news papers stating that the Chief Minister of Telangana Mr K Chandrasekhara Rao and his cabinet took a decision to spend an amount of Rs 10 Crores to fulfill various vows made by their party to various gods during the Telangana movement prior to formation of the state. These vows were made to several gods including Lord Balaji, Kanakadurgamma of Vijayawada, Lord Lakshmi Narasimha of Yadagiri gutta, Chadar at Ajmer Dargah etc.  It is a common thing among Indians (possibly among people of some other countries also) to make vows to the gods and invoke gods at the time of difficulty and one needs to fulfill them once the issue is resolved. However, it is height of madness and splurge to ...

With the reorganisation of the state into Andhra Pradesh (balance) and Telangana, Hyderabad which was the capital now became capital of Telangana. Political leaders from Andhra tried their best to keep Hyderabad as joint capital (which is absurd considering it being surrounded by areas from Telangana) or at best as a Union Territory (a la Chandigarh). However all these were thwarted by the Union Government. During the discussion in Parliament the then UPA government promised help in construction of a capital for the state of Andhra Pradesh. This was also reiterated by Mr Modi (then PM candidate and now Prime Minister) while his election campaign in Andhra. The then Union Government constituted a committee under Mr Siva Ramakrishnan to visit all the towns in Andhra and suggest a suitable place for capital city. The present chief minister during his campaign for state legislative elections sold a dream of constructing a capital like Singapore for the state. In fact he promised that...

Indian Cricket Well according to me this is not even a great subject to write about as it is following and churned on all formats of the media and literally 95% people in India follow the same. I used to be one of the 95% earlier (prior to the first scam where Azharuddin & Co were suspended). I lost my interest after the successive scandals. I remember President of BCCI was asked to step down last year itself at the time of controversy regarding the spot fixing (or whatever name it was called) but he came back through back door once again. Now the highest court in India has ordered him to step down and asked Mr Sunil Gavaskar to takeover as a President in the interim along with Mr Shivlal Yadav as the second president. With due respects to the honourable court and the justices who delivered the judgement, the first part of the judgement is ok as the one being ordered to step down is perceived to be the corrupting influence. My grouse is only with the second part, why Mr Gav...

The biggest sensation during the month of February was the drama played in Indian Parliament on the bifurcation bill of the state of Andhra Pradesh. After the episodes of pepper spray, stand-in by the central ministers from the state of Andhra Pradesh and whatever should not be done in a democracy this bill was passed by the Parliament. There was a blackout on TV coverage just minutes before the voting which was attributed to a so called technical failure which came to aid in many such undemocratic activities in the past as well. Anyway, the deed (good or bad based on one's view point) has happened. Now on the one hand a game of claim for the so called good deed for Telangana is being going on by all the parties who have taken part in the voting. In Telangana, it is natural that the KCR led TRS party claims that they are the authors for the justice done to the aspirations of the Telangana and are also showing appreciation on the Congress Party and Madam Sonia for the split. At ...

Now that the decision for split of the state of Andhra Pradesh has been taken by the Indian Parliament, it is the time for politicians of both states and more particularly those from the rump state of Andhra Pradesh minus Telangana to start thinking constructively and try to make plans for development instead of crying over the spilt milk. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Still politicians are accusing each other like the classic case of Jagan Mohan Reddy and Chandra Babu Naidu that the other is responsible for the current state of affairs. Why I said the classic case of these two politicians is that, whatever happens the moment one of these conduct a press meet the discussion turns on to accusations against the other politician. This is like the famous story about a boy who knows only about a cow and try to introduce the cow into whatever story he is talking about. The people and politicians need of the so called Seemandhra needs to concentrate on starting the overall develop...