By Anil Swarup– (Anil Swarup is a former Education Secretary and Coal Secretary in the Government of India. He is also a renowned author. The views expressed in this article are his own) “TMC moves privilege motion against ED and CBI in West Bengal Assembly”: ANI It is a “war”. A very unfortunate one. The Centre […]
“When Yog becomes Yoga it gets to be recognized in the country of origin”. I had tweeted this some time ago to highlight the fact that we are so obsessed with western endorsements that we look for such certificates to validate our point of view or practice. This is true even now. We went hammer and tongs to get a certificate from the World Bank about “ease-of-doing-business” and spruced up the processes in Delhi and Mumbai (at least in the beginning) to climb up the ladder. We did climb but the ground reality didn’t change despite our road shows in Davos and other parts of the world. Now the same western world has questioned democracy in the largest democracy of the world. There have been reactions. The opposition that was at some time responsible for the erosion of democratic norms is now taking the moral high ground on the basis of these reports.
Anil Swarup writes: Along with the Indian judiciary and the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC), Election Commission of India (ECI) was one of the most revered institutions in the country. Now, perhaps only UPSC stands tall.
A true admirer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as a critic, Anil Swarup, former secretary of the government of India, was in the San Francisco Bay Area recently and spoke about his non-profit ‘The Nexus of Good’. He also spoke about his tenure as a top Indian bureaucrat and explained why India has failed to create jobs. He also elaborated on his concern about an India divided over religion and politics. “Our nation is headed the Pakistan way,” he warned.
