Archive for the ‘niranjan ramakrishnan’ Category

DREAMS OF MY PRESIDENTS

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

Pragmatism ran amok in Tuscon when a young adult gunned down and killed six strangers. He may feel justified and righteous, never mind the law. He did what he felt was right. And who would have influenced him to think so? Commentator Niranjan Ramakrishnan thinks it's Bush, Obama and Co. A ...

AN AFGHAN TRAVELOGUE

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

A stalemate, an impasse, a dead end or a lost cause? Is the United States stuck so deep in the Afghanistan mire that it cannot move? Or as commentator Niranjan Ramakrishnan says, time to bring the troops home. Some excerpts from a recent account of Afghanistan by a visiting American (headings ...

THE SIREN SONG OF WORLD PRAISE

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

The disappointment of not hosting the 2016 Olympics has now turned into joy as Barack Obama is lauded and feted by the media after receiving this year's Nobel Peace prize. But as commentator Niranjan Ramakrishnan cautions, if the US president ignores his own backyard, he could easily follow in the ...

THE FINANCIAL EXPERTS

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Writer Niranjan Ramakrishnan finds R. K. Narayan's The Financial Expert a timely reflection of today's economic meltdown in the microcosm of its tragi-comic hero's rise and fall. Only thing is that Narayan wrote his book more than 50 years ago. I was gratified the other day to discover a good collection ...

CLEANING UP AFTER BUSH

Friday, November 7th, 2008

The Bush legacy - a people demoralized, a system that has failed in every instance, a country bemused. A new election means a new beginning and, as commentator Niranjan Ramakrishnan says, "the ideal start is to return to the America we knew before the day of the incompetent and the ...