If February, being the Budget month, is all about number crunching, March is when you take stock, marking as it does the end of the financial year. With the new Finance Bill taking effect from 1 April, these thirty days present the last op for corporates as well as the common man not just to erase past accounting sins
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I must congratulate you b’cos we’ve never had it so good. As we can see, the Indian economy is galloping. The facts and figures say it all: 9% GDP growth, soaring foreign investments, huge exchange reserves, stock markets at all time highs, Indians buying up foreign firms and the world watching our success story in open-mouthed awe.
To be talking of such dull things as Corporation polls during Valentine’s week is not a very romantic idea. But, with no love lost between the vote-lorn politicos and the people they court, the current round of polls even otherwise lacks the familiar lusture of a democratic festival which is what elections are.
The Nile would rank as the most romanticised river in world’s history. But the longest river on the earth, with a seemingly smooth and silken mythological as well as modern facade, carries in its depths loads of strife.
Two unconnected events, this past week, raise questions about the state of today’s society and polity. One is Sri Sathya Sai Baba calling on Karunanidhi at his residence and the other is the IT raids on Vijayakanth’s premises. And both happenings prove beyond doubt the pull and predominance of political power over all other facets of life.
So, what do you do when words fail? Make those very words the subject of the day! Well, it is seemingly an easy way out particularly when your thoughts are constipated by either lack of anything worthwhile to write about or plain inertia of the mind.
The spate of kidnappings, killings and suicides of kids since new year, all over the country and in our own neighbourhoods, is a rude awakening to an emerging catastrophe. The inheritors of India, the tots and teens, seem to be under siege as never before.
When a Danish newspaper published cartoons of Prophet Mohammad sometime back, the issue became a raging debate between blasphemy and press freedom. But a vital detail was lost in the furore. Was the editor of the paper so foolish as not to have expected the fallout?
A new year may be just one more footprint in the end less passage of time. Indeed if day follows night without help from self-obsessed mankind, so should a year naturally succeed another, with none ‘heralding it’ or ‘ringing it in’. And what’s the big deal for Indians who celebrate several new years right through the year?