Science, Progress and Posterity Arun Ghosh When new scientific advances are sought to be applied it is essential to take stock of their possible adverse effects and to evaluate who will gain and who...
From the Ivory Tower
Ferment in Eastern Europe Lessons for Leftists in India Arun Ghosh EASTERN Europe has been in the news of late. The events in Poland and Hungary have been historic to say the least. And now the...
Mystery of a Declining Capital-Output Ratio THE Planning Commission, or at any rate some responsible spokesmen of the commission, have for some time lost no opportunity to highlight in every forum...
Science, Technology and Self-Reliance Arun Ghosh The life story of Pandurang Khankhoje, whose researches yielded the revolution in wheat production in Mexico where he was director of agriculture but...
State of Union Message from RBI Arun Ghosh In its Annual Report RBI has drawn attention to the dangers facing the Indian economy. Where it has gone wrong is in understating the inherent fragility of...
Technology Missions versus People's Participation Arun Ghosh The latest manifestation of the government's obsessive reliance on technology is the announcement by the prime minister of the...
Musing on Run-Up to General Elections Arun Ghosh While Doordarshan mouths only the views of government spokesmen, most of our national news media reflect the views of one senior journalist or the...
Musings during a Debate on Panchayati Raj Pray do not sneer, hold back your frown, For every circus has its clown. You're all too serious, all too tense, But don't take leave of commonsense, What's...
Delhi, the Imperial City Arun Ghosh Unlike other towns and cities of this country Delhi does not have to worry about where the money for its civic amenities comes from. There are some 800 million...
A Plea for Open Government Case of Narmada Project Arun Ghosh OF late, the science of governance appears to be increasingly oriented to secrecy in regard to the functioning of government, and...
Arun Ghosh OVER the years, in diverse capacities in the union government, I have had occasions to amuse myself by penning lampoons on various facets of administration, during long, desultory...
The Panchayati Raj Bill Arun Ghosh While the motives of the government in precipitately introducing the Constitution (64th Amendment) Bill may be suspect and while some of the provisions of the bill...
National Accounts and the Flow of Funds Arun Ghosh The Flow of Funds Accounts of the Indian Economy published by the Reserve Bank is a useful and timely document bringing out Hie details of inter-...
Rowlands' Lonrho. The Al Fayed family of Egypt had been able to outbid him in buying Harrods in 1985. Inspectors appointed by the department of trade and industry had exposed the practice of "some...
Capital Stock, Capital Consumption and the Capital: Output Ratio Arun Ghosh CSO's New Series of national accounts attempts a switchover from deducting 'depreciation provision' from GDP to derive the...
