The Karnataka Lok Ayukta, which has the power to try even the chief minister, is yet to make headway.
The Lok Ayukta Bill was Karnataka chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde’s first specific indication of fighting corruption. The Bill which received the President’s assent in January 1985, was the only one among other Lok Ayukta bills which brought the chief minister’s office also under its jurisdiction.
Despite Rajiv Gandhi’s emphasis on science and the need to enter the 21st century, the Indian scientific establishment is demoralised and directionless. What has gone wrong?
Four years ago, Ramakrishna Hegde, the chief minister of Karnataka, setup the Economic and Planning Council (EPC), a high-powered advisory body. How impressive has been this ‘”super cabinet’s” performance? What are its shortcomings?
Environmentalism is struggling to come of age in the country, and Karnataka is probably ahead of most other states as awareness has spread to even the remotest parts of the state.
The latest issue taken up by environmentalists
in Karnataka is that of illegal granite quarrying, especially in the B.R. Hill ranges of Mysore. It was Madan Gopal, the 30-year-old assistant commissioner of Nanjangud in Mysore district, who started the controversy last
November by trying to crack down on nearly 90 illegal granite quarrying operations in his area of jurisdiction.
Henry Kissinger, as us secretary of State, once asked his security guard what he would do if someone tried to kidnap him. “Don’t worry,’’ the guard replied, “we won’t let them take you alive.”
Women in India share many of the problems that face their counterparts in the U.S., such as sexual harassment,
lower wages, political exclusion, and physical violence which, at its worst, culminates in rape and even brideburning. In addition, however, most Indian women, and in fact many women all over the Third World, carry the double burden of humiliating poverty and debilitating illiteracy.
The average pay given to a Domestic Servant is Rs.30, merely half the cost of a cotton sari.
On the rare occasion that they ask for a raise they are merely asked to quit.
Over the last few months, Hegde has emerged as the Janata party’s most impressive leader. Can he replace Chandrashekhar?
CONSIDER THESE FACTS. The Janata party is rapidly running out of leaders. Chandrashekhar, who once seemed like the obvious Prime Ministerin-waiting has seen his credibility disappear.
A few years ago. Bangalore was the boom city o f the South. Now the boom has gone bust.
Last summer, just about a year ago, Bangaloreans were basking in the warmth of yet another addition to the string of monikers the city has acquired. Bangalore — the boom city — then seemed an awesome juggernaut, zesty and thriving, one of the fastest growing cities, not just in India, but in the world.
A few signs are showing that women are coming into their own in Indian cinema…. not very radically so, but at least differently from men. Hopefully, in a larger context, film festivals and discussions like the one presented by Vimochana, have their own role to play in fostering a climate for this social transformation.
