I have not been updating it often enough…if this goes on, I may rename this page “history”!
Articles on Current Affairs
Jaswant’s Obama-like interview on his Jinnah biography in CNN-IBN
Published by August 17th, 2009 in Current Affairs, India and Podcasts & webcasts. 0 CommentsIn an Obama-like interview Jaswant Singh deals with a complex and polarizing topic like India-Pakistan partition with sensitivity and statesmanship that is rarely seen in Indian politics.
Will trained workers in Panchayats improve the quality of NREGA?
Published by August 15th, 2009 in Current Affairs, Governance, NREGA and Social Policy. 3 CommentsMihir Shah argued in a recent article that trained workers should be appointed in each Panchayat if NREGA has to fulfill its promises. While Panchayats need personnel to implement NREGA, I argue that for the purpose of planning it would be better to create nodal agencies that take up planning sound works in a campaign mode.
Best international news programmes: A list
Published by December 30th, 2008 in Current Affairs, Podcasts & webcasts and Useful Links (by topics). 2 CommentsAn effort to build a list of good international news programmes to get news from diverse perspectives Over the last few years, I have developed an interest in international affairs. Unfortunately, International English news sources were dominated by channels in USA and Britain. BBC and CNN that were available widely had some high quality programmes [...]
India: Union & State budgets search engine
Published by February 21st, 2008 in Current Affairs, Economics & Economy, Governance, India and Social Policy. 0 CommentsA search engine to search India’s Union budgets and State budgets (available) in one click A wealth of materials is available online today about budgets in India. Unfortunately they are dispersed across dozens of websites that take time to find. This search engine will enable to to search official budget websites of Government of India [...]
India: Parliament & Legislative Assemblies search engine
Published by February 21st, 2008 in Current Affairs, General Interest, Governance, India, Social Policy and Useful Links (by topics). 0 CommentsSearch websites of Indian Parliament and most legislative assemblies in one go [inline] [/inline] About the search engine This is a special search engine that searches websites of Indian Parliament, most state assemblies and other government sites that offer content on debates and other proceedings in legislative bodies. It also includes a few non-governmental sites. [...]
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