The Kannada Serial Mahanavami

psaram42 - 8-DEC-2009

 Mahanavami is a currently popular TV serial on the ETV Kannada channel of Ramoji film city. The address is of Ramoji film city office at Bangalore is 9/7, K C N Bhavan Madhava Nagar, Bangalore, and Karnataka 560001. Phone: 080 22352230.

The immense cost of Socialism

murali772 - 15-NOV-2009

Growth accelerated with tentative reforms in 1980, and shot up to 9% after reforms deepened in the current decade. How much lower would infant mortality, illiteracy and poverty have been had India commenced reform a decade earlier, and enjoyed correspondingly faster growth and human development?

Industry of 'poverty-wallahs' exposed

murali772 - 15-NOV-2009

More people on the earth have risen out of poverty in the past 25 years than at any other time in human history, and this has happened primarily because of sustained high economic growth in India and China.

Marathahalli bridge updates

silkboard - 27-JUL-2007

World Bank/ GBWASP - a different conspiracy

murali772 - 19-JAN-2009

There's always been a debate over whether the politician is the bigger problem, or the bureaucrat. I have always held that even bigger than the two, there's another formidable force - the Socialist (the psuedo variety - there are very few genuine ones remaining). And, the solutions to the countries problems lies in tackling him.

Para-statal agencies and task forces in Karnataka

murali772 - 19-DEC-2008

A One day public consultation on their constitutionality, programs, influence and impact on Democracy
Date: 20 December 2008.  Time: 9.30 AM to 5 PM
Place: Legislator's Home, Vidhana Soudha. Bangalore

Background:

Profit for KSRTC at whose cost?

murali772 - 19-NOV-2008

The primary objective of public transport corporations is to serve the public. However, this does not seem to hold good on many occasions, like on Monday, when BMTC and KSRTC gave a large number of buses in their fleet on casual contract for the JD(S) convention, causing an acute shortage of buses on road and putting the public to hardships.
 

Learn from past mistakes and move on

murali772 - 19-OCT-2008

The recent convulsions in the international financial markets have provoked an unseemly amount of gloating on the part of many in the developing world. What worries me, though, is the number of people in India who are saying similar things. "See, we were right in opposing all this liberalisation," one told me.

Fund Children; not Schools

murali772 - 5-OCT-2008

The most striking lesson for India is from Sweden’s education reforms in the early 1990s. Sweden has decentralised its system - shifting the control of schools from the centre to municipalities - and has given parents a choice whether to send their children to state or private schools (but paid by the state with a voucher).