Hail the Chief ! – Pamarty Venkataramana Myths are the foundation of great nations.Be it a people’s democracy or a monarchy led constitutional democracy,the farce is the facade of the Houses of Society! Likewise,the Judiciary. Beginning from the wigs and collar-bands to the flowing gowns , it is all beautiful peacocking style. In fact,it is […]
Peacetime Economic Panic turns 200! By – Pamarty Venkataramana The year 2018 marks a benchmark for evaluating the extent of progress made by the modern world in the two hundred years that have passed by since the first financial crisis and panic of 1819 engulfed the economy of America- the world leader. How did an […]
A modern Chakravyuh! By – Pamarty Venkataramana The open invitation by a State guest (even if he be a Head of State) to the host country’s youth to leave their motherland and flock to his own homeland is a most weird occurrence of the week. We all are aware as to who it was. But, […]
The midnight rendezvous by – Pamarty Venkataramana A gang of good fellows are we? Few call us mandarins of government. Others hate our power and call us mongers of power. Loose-tongued ones call us- ‘power-brokers’. More literate folk salute us as ‘civil servants’. The staid old world of legalese dubs us as -‘bureaucrats ‘ ! A […]
Ape not, Pappu! by – Pamarty Venkataramana The company you keep . Perhaps the very first common lesson taught by all parents and teachers to children . We all were and have heard this often – even in later years . Am sure quite many of my ‘married’ readers would be listening to this phrase from […]
Budget – Not a Stigma by – Pamarty Venkataramana There is much bewilderment at Union Budget. ‘Poll-pundits’ to ‘armchair tweet-handles’ have been mouthing big euphemisms and standard cliches both in support and against the speech read out by incumbent Finance Minister. ‘Public policy’ and ‘National-Income’ are concepts buried deep into sand and the sand-art of notional-belief […]
Hey Ram ! { Peeling the orange } by Pamarty Venkataramana Union budgets are presented customarily by the anointed wise man of the Cabinet . In the country of a billion plus population,it is but one individual who garners all attention on the floor of the House of People,the Lok Sabha for one particular day of […]
Women as Vanguards By Pamarty Venkataramana Interesting to notice the theme of the very popular ‘Mann like baat ‘ radio programme of the prime minister of India in the first edition of 2018 being dedicated to the ‘praiseworthy womenfolk’ . India, traditionally,has been a civilisation which held women in reverence and worshipping them in guise […]
Create ‘shared-future’ in ‘fractured-world’ by – Pamarty Venkataramana Agreed . The world today is a fractured one – as viewed by many world heads of State and those umpteen number of successful globe-trotters that keep bandying about their intentions to unify the world as ‘one small marketplace’ . But,which is the ailment that prevents the […]
That’s all there is to one’s life at the end of it all – the birth, the trials, the tribulations, the tests, the triumphs as also the uncertainties attached to existence before death itself comes knocking all upon a sudden