Rise of small town IndiaVishy KurugantiMay 20, 20144 minsPic courtesy flickr/Google [Editor’s Note: The piece below was penned by Akshay Garg, former co-founder at Komli Media. It appeared on his Facebook feed and I’m republishing here with his permission…
On a nation with drastically low expectationsVishy KurugantiFebruary 12, 20131 minsThree tweets from @albatrossinfo (RT’d by CentreRight India’s Prasanna Viswanathan) caught my attention this evening. 1) As a nation we are a race of people with such low expectations from the ruling…
On heroes, martyrs, and beheadings…Vishy KurugantiJanuary 13, 20133 minsShared on my friend’s Facebook wall – a point of view from an army man (friend’s friend) who has served at the LOC (don’t know when or for how long). Provides a fresh perspective on what exactly the…
Crime does not pay – a rebooting manifestoVishy KurugantiDecember 27, 20124 minsIt’s been over a week since a hapless young medical student was brutally gang-raped and mercilessly beaten to within a micro-inch of her life. In this glorious nation’s capital.. inside a moving…
Nehru’s pride, Indo-American relationship and the Indo-China warVishy KurugantiDecember 02, 20122 minsPic courtesy ibnlive.in.com Gurcharan Das, in his book India Unbound, makes a pithy statement. When individuals make blunders, it’s sad but when leaders make blunders, it’s a tragedy. He was referring…
Unspecialized and rotating authority of civil serviceVishy KurugantiAugust 27, 20121 minsIn an earlier post, Rebooting IAS an essential part of Reforms 2.0 on my other blog, I had summarized a LiveMint article which outlined the key systemic problems with the IAS cadre. A few fixes have…
Prime Minister is like the great banyan tree…Vishy KurugantiAugust 19, 20121 minsNo – not the current ‘great’ Dr. Manmohan Singh. In Ambassador’s Journal, John Kenneth Galbraith writes about many interesting things during his tenure as US Ambassador to India. The journal entry…
Kargil Vijay Diwas 2012: 13 Years LaterVishy KurugantiJuly 26, 20121 minsPic: courtesy indiatimes.com Two years ago, I created this commemorative photo blog on Kargil Vijay Diwas, featuring the brave officers who won the war for India. This year, I decided to share links…
Why Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district villageVishy KurugantiDecember 19, 20112 minsThis story (from Verghese Kurien’s I too had a dream) continues from When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village..unannounced..in 1964. He visited the huts of Harijans in the village. He…
Attracting diaspora to address India’s higher education faculty gapVishy KurugantiSeptember 15, 20114 minsPic: courtesy hebrewhistory.info [Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on my other blog (TechSangam) – republishing here since it’s clearly relevant to the Return to India meme. Earlier…