Canadian Nobel Prize winner and economist William Vickery suggests that a tender should be signed with the second highest bidder, and not the highest one. It takes nothing more than common sense to acknowledge that the highest bidder will compromise with quality to keep the cost minimum. Recently my teacher astonished me with a similar theory. He advocated a new plan for the voting mechanism in India. Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
The parliament, the news, and the nation
The Lok sabha budget session is commencing these days. Recently, our MPs discussed on supply of food grains, promotion of commercial farming, Somali pirates attacking our ships, disappearances of people in police custody, the non-inclusion of Bhojpuri in the official language list, fires in farms because of the heat, water sharing disputes, missing Indian in Afghanistan, declining ground water table, the cyclone in West Bengal and Bihar, a 4 crore scam in Bihar, oil spill’s near our shores affecting the livelihood of fishermen, farm credit, oil and gas blocks and the national green tribunal bill, among several other issues. Continue reading
The anti-secular?
The secularists of India have unfortunately forgotten the meaning of secularism. Like most ‘isms’, secularism is being wrongly understood. In India secularism is the opposite of ‘everything’ the sangh pariwar stands for. Secularists define themselves as ‘anti sangh pariwar’. And in Modi and Advani, they have personified ‘everything’ they hate in themselves. Continue reading
Why do politicians wear whites?
Today, I was wondering why these politicians wear white clothes and travel around in white cars? Does the colour signify something? White is associated with purity. Do these politicians want to delude us by portraying themselves as innocent? As if we don’t know about them! Continue reading
Why is Narasimha Rao blamed for everything?
I recently read an article by Vir Sanghvi, the editor of the Hindustan Times. He blames P V Narasimha Rao for many reasons. To me, knowing Rao’s government is like reading history, as I was too young to understand politics then. But still, with all due respect, I’d like to contradict Mr. Sanghvi. Continue reading
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 