A Different feeling this budget gives, Mr.Chidambaram

When Finance Minister P.Chidambaram had presented his budget last year, there were very few people who had anything to complain, including the left parties, which were constantly at loggerheads with his policies. But this year a plethora of complaints from all sides, political, corporate and the common man, has taken the wind out of the budget. And the popular Tamil daily down south, Dinamalar, headlined PC's budget thus: Dog food becomes cheaper!

A blogger has even asked the Harvard-educated Chidambaram to learn from his rustic colleague and Railway Mantri Lalu Prasad Yadav! There could not have been a more damning indictment, I am sure from the finance minister's perspective. Read More...

What it takes to be a superior nation than America in 2050

The other day as the nation was celebrating its 57th Republic Day, a newspaper headline the previous day kept playing on the mind. This was about India overtaking United States by the year 2050.

Watching two kids at the birthday party of the four-year-old, one could not help but think about where these kids, then in their late middle age, would be and what it would mean for them to be part of a country which would be more powerful than the United States of America.
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