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India: Issues and Ideas
Arvind Bhandari
ISBN :
8121004195
Year Of Publication :
2004
Price : US$22
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India takes pride in enabling its citizens to cast a vote quinguennially. But Indian democracy, argues Senior Journalist Arvind Bhandari, is distressingly flawed, being based on institutionalized corruption and rule by minority vote. A thematic strand running rhrough this vibrant book, which commences with a comprehensive and thought-provoking introduction, is that India has more failed than succeeded as a newly emergin nation. The author contends that India's non-performance is ascribable to the country being deprived of across-the -board reforms, which have not been effected because of a short-sighted, pusillanimous political leadership. Areas which cry out for reform include population policy, anit-poverty programmes, political system, electoral system, judicial system, educational system and accountability in public life. Even 57 years after Independence, India's face is pockmarked by poverty, squalor, chaos, congestion, injustice, violence, brutality and, of course, ubiquitous corruption, with the result that not un-often the country sinks to the depths of an uncivilized nation.
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Arvind Bhandari is among the senior-most Delhi-based journalists. After taking a M.A. (Economics) degree from St. Stephen's College, University of Del;hi, 1960, he joined Hindustan Times as an apprentice reporter. Then he switched to the Times of India, where he was a Staff Reporter from 1961 to 1965, Bhandari was Special Correspondent fo Indian Express form 1965 to 1978 and Assistant Editor of The Tribune form 1979 to 1980. From 1980 to 1985 he was Chief of New Delhi Bureau of Commerce Weekly. Bhandari was General Manager, Press Relations Division, Reserve Bank of India, from 1985 to 1992. Since then, he has been writing for various newspapers. Bhandari is widely travelled.
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Preface
Introduction
Highly Questionable
Is India Shining
this is Not Done!
Have Plebiscite in Kashmir
Indo-Pak Detente, But..
Control Those Numbers
Corrutp India
Need for Electoral Reforms
Illiterate India
UN: Bloated Expendure
Reform the United Nations
The Kargil War
Economic Liberalisation
Presidential System Preferable
We are Consumers
Population Ageing
Reform Education
Governmental Profligacy
First Tighten Your Belt
World Food Day
Under-Employed Babus
India and AIDS
Pipeline Politics
Tourism Needs a Boost
Freedom of the Press
Maiden of Myanmar
A Golden Puzzle
India's Foreign Trade
The Oil Conundrum
India-Pakistan Animosity
Hong Kong as a Bridge
Need Cooperation not Warmongering
Level of Interest Rates
Rupee Versus Dollar
Wanted National Government
India-an Exim Policy
India and Britain
India and South Africa
Budget-A Curate's Egg
Rich Versus Poor
Prices and People
India and the Philippines
Faulty Public Distribution System
Increasing Bank Frauds
The Tibetan Imbroglio
WTO At Singapore
Governmental Extravagance
Oh, The Income Tax !
Nuclear Insanity
World Bank and India
ETC.
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