Entries from January 2008

January 31, 2008

An Uncommon Bureaucrat

One of Time magazine’s Asian heroes, ranked among India’s most powerful individuals in a survey by India Today, one of Time magazine’s Asian heroes and now CNN-IBN’s Indian of the year, 76-year-old E. Sreedharan is the Managing Director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, its builder and executor.When have you heard of a bureaucrat who [...]

January 29, 2008

Outsourcing US Election Campaign

 
Barack Obama called Clinton a senator from Punjab.Thanks to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar she might soon  be accused of being the senator from Bihar. When Nitish Kumar was asked to comment on reports that he and JD(U)  Rajya Sabha MP Digvijay Singh have been approached by Hillary’s campaign managers to campaign for Mrs Clinton, he [...]

January 29, 2008

The Contenders For the US Elections

THE US presidential elections always generate global interest. This year’s elections are special. The five main contenders for the US presidency this year symbolise a “first” of  one  kind  or another-
Barack Obama would be the first African-American president (his middle name is Hussein a muslim name, another first) if elected.
Hillary Clinton would , be the first woman president if elected.
Mike Huckabee [...]