Dissecting The Soul

Why post-debacle inspection is such an elevated exercise

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Dissecting-the-soul/articleshow/12235469.cms

-The Times of India, March 13, 2012

Time To Talk

UPA must work together better

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Time-to-talk/articleshow/12236007.cms

Lack of an "effective consultative mechanism to thrash out contentious issues," and insufficient communication with allies, the editorial says, has led to "UPA's trust deficit, hurting its image and policy-making."

-The Times of India, March 13, 2012

Resource Curse

To check illegal mining, focus on implementing policies on the ground


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Resource-curse/articleshow/12236047.cms

The mining mafias in the recent past have begun to create terror. The center must coordinate and accelerate the efforts and "put an end to end to illegal mining at the earliest."

-The Times of India, March 13, 2012

Greg Chappell says Indian culture doesn't breed leaders

Times View - Tactless and highly patronizing - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Tactless-and-highly-patronising/articleshow/12200199.cms

Counter View - Chappell has a strong case - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Chappell-has-a-strong-case/articleshow/12200150.cms

-The Times of India, March 10, 2012

When Local Meets Global

Rising regional political forces must see domestic and foreign policy as interlinked

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/When-local-meets-global/articleshow/12200231.cms

"Political leadership requires thinking about the interconnections and trade-offs that are involved between short-term local policy choices and long-term strategic goals"

-The Times of India, March 10, 2012 

Adieu To Fiats of High Commands

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Adieu-to-fiats-of-high-commands/articleshow/12200063.cms

"The fiats of the 'high command', ideological posturing, coterie deliberations and too-clever-by-half electoral calculations - all of them manifestation of the 'commanding heights' approach to politics - are well and truly a thing of the past."

-The Times of India, March 10, 2012

Fathers, Sons - And Some Others

Bringing you Indian elections - with all the family politics

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Fathers-sons--and-some-others/articleshow/12200263.cms

The editorial presents, humorously, the political situation of the recent months, which extensively featured "family members"as a part of the plot.

-The Times of India, March 10, 2012

Phoney Deal

Rapid technological change can make useless old things into priceless antiques

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/jugglebandhi/entry/phoney-deal

-The Times of India, March 9, 2012

'Indian cities have hidden wealth - they just have to be well-planned.'

Q&A


Andre Dzikus, chief of water and sanitation at the United Nations Habitat Agency, is one of the key coordinators of the UN's 'I am a city changer' campaign, focussing on how to make cities a better place to inhabit. Dzikus spoke with Pratiksha Ramkumar on cities that are 'green' in shade, but not in substance, factors making a city ideal - and how India can still get there: 


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Indian-cities-have-hidden-wealth-they-just-have-to-be-well-planned/articleshow/12189419.cms

-The Times of India, March 9, 2012

Curing Our Hospitals

To keep patients safe, we must transform the quality of our healthcare system


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Curing-our-hospitals/articleshow/12189373.cms

"The scale of this quality problem is enormous even in high-end urban medical centres, leave alone rural health clinics. Inappropriate treatment, malpractice, excessive use of certain procedures and negligence are rampant."

-The Times of India, March 9, 2012

A New Degree

Vocational education must be mainstreamed

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/A-new-degree/articleshow/12189406.cms

The proposal to introduce a Bachelor's degree in vocational education is most welcome. It will enhance job prospects tremendously in India. The vocational education, for that very reason, must be mainstreamed.

-The Times of India, March 9, 2012

Leadership Lessons

Lack of credible regional leaders is affecting Congress's prospects

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Leadership-lessons/articleshow/12189357.cms

The Congress is losing ground at an alarming pace, says the editorial. It can be attributed to the over-centralization of the Congress leadership, and a lack of credible regional leaders, as is the trend in most states, especially Southern states, in India.

-The Times of India, March 9, 2012

Decentralisation lessons for parties

Ever since the 1991 elections, India has not had a majority government. While it may be looked as congress' failure to reach the masses, it is also in general, the inability of national parties (including BJP) to reach out. This article talks of the need to decentralize the national parties which have too many leaders, and focus on problems at ground level.

http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/editorials/decentralisation-lessons-for-parties/370465.html

Real estate business needs a regulatory body

A critical view of how the real estate business looks like an unorganized sector, even though it generates a lot of revenue. The editorial calls for a regulatory body to ensure that this sector too gets its fair share of limelight and recognition, especially in the recent problems of loan repayment as the financial year approaching an end.

http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/editorials/real-estate-business-needs-a-regulatory-body/370804.html

A new lease of life for BSY

The State High Court of Karnataka dismissed all FIR's lodged against illegal mining pertaining to former Chief Minister of State, B S Yedddyurrappa against illegal mining.

BSY was forced to resign from the Chief ministerial post due to this and many other cases which are pending yet.

Having got a life from the judgement, it will be difficult for his party and his detractors to shun down when many believed he had already made hay while the Sun shone.

It is not easy to stop BS Yeddyurrappa now