Krishna Kiran's

Decisive, Not Divisive Politics More Regional - More Anarchy The present political scenario in India is quite disturbing to say the least, not that it was less disturbing earlier. One of the root causes of this disturbance is our so called national parties. Majority of India’s population lives in states run by BJP and Congress , yet due to their inept governance in some states, they are not able to win enough seats on their own to form a stable government. The national parties are creating further chaos by splitting states in the most undemocratic manner for garnering more seats by invoking more regional divide in people adding fuel to the existing fire. It is a matter of great concern that since 1989, no single party has been able to form a government at the Centre without the support of smaller regional parties which are actually single-state parties. The smaller parties with only regional interests are jeopardizing the state of democracy and thereby causi...

TELANAGANA–SEEMANDHRA/I TOWN–II TOWN and a rally I was born and brought up in a ‘town’ which is reportedly a ‘city’ now, if population is the benchmark for differentiating a city from town. I love my hometown the most wherever I am and who doesn't! As I grew up and started going to school, the town as I knew it is only the school bus route and nothing else. That is the kind of knowledge a kid would have or was expected to know. Home to school and school to home is all that a town is about for a school going kid. The same was nicely captured as a song in Mahesh Babu’s recent film 1, Ninekkodine. As we grew to higher classes, our knowledge of the town also improved and it was about old and new. Old literally meant where the town originally came into being and new meaning the upcoming areas. My parents lived in II Town. Old town was called as (one) I Town and new parts of the town are called (Two) II town. Even today the police stations in my home town, sorry city, ar...

The news is out that Rajya Sabha too has passed the bill today clearing the decks for the formation of 29 th state of India. After all the hue and cry about separation of Telangana from AP, the real colours of a few people(read political leaders) in Seemandhra are coming out in the open now. While the people were genuinely fighting to keep AP united, there are some(read political leaders) who bought real estate so that could make a fast buck if the state splits and land rates go up. As per the latest informal reports, some land owners across Seemandhra are quoting exorbitant rates. This is more so in Vijayawada on the assumption that the new capital would be located somewhere in between Vijayawada-Guntur. The asking rate for an acre of land which was quoting Rs.1 cr earlier is now nine times that rate. Forget about whether there are buyers at that rate.   Factors like non-availability of land, precious land in the hands of a few people, domination in politics and busi...

I am against the division of AP that is taking place currently and is now almost a reality with Lok Sabha passing the bill yesterday. Like any other Andhraite, I too would blame Congress and BJP for the separation of Telangana, but a look at the happenings in AP right from 1950s would place the blame squarely on the rulers of AP especially in the last two decades. Let us take a quick bite of the past:  1.      Everybody knows that Telangana agitation is not a recent phenomenon and K Chandrasekhara Rao and Telangana Rashtra Samithi do not have proprietary rights on the same. 2.      A look at the history will tell us that Telangana was part of the erstwhile Hyderabad state with 9 Telugu speaking districts of Telangana, 4 Kannada districts in Gulbarga division and 4 Marathi speaking districts in Aurangabad division. 3.      Ranga Reddy District was carved out of Hyderbad distirct in 1978. 4.    ...

This was another piece that I posted on 26th Dec 2006 after reading a column by Arun in ET. Some views are evergreen: The views expressed by Mr.Arun Maira in the Career Track column of ET in the Christmas day's issue is really appreciable. The  Bhagavadgita  in fact has lot of lessons for all those discerning practisers of Management. What is interesting is Arun Maira who is working as the Chairman of BCG(Boston Consulting Group) quoting from the same. Yes, he is right when he said " Life is much,much more than a career". He has also drawn semblance in what Harry Levinson said in the reprinted articles of HBR. Just as a long journey starts with a small step, life's journey too starts with knowing oneself first. You are the nearest to yourself than anyone else. Once 'YOU' are understood, knowing the world is no big deal. It is very touching to note that Arun Maira learnt few of his early Management lessons from Lakshman who was his car driver. The inci...

This was posted by me on 15th August 2005 just when I started blogging on one of my blogs titled Public Agenda. There seems to be some improvement on this front in the last 9 years but a lot more can be done..  One thing that is firmly established in my mind is the importance of education for all children irrespective of their parents' social standing. The children of today need compulsory schooling to eradicate poverty and to give India a better future. But our political leaders seem to be worried about more children getting educated as it would dampen the chances for having a huge mass following. The less educated the people are, more the opportunity to make them dependent. That is the reason why the governments are irresponsible towards the schools run by them? Can anyone show me a government servant's child or a political leader's child studying in a municipal school in any part of this country? The number may be zero or even if there are any, it could be very less...