Keys To Modi’s Success In Gujarat And Lessons For Sri Lanka
By Rajasingham Narendran -July 9, 2014
Dr. Rajasingham Narendran
While trying to locating a rendering of Carnatic music on the YOUTUBE, I stumbled upon Narendra Modi’s tele-link address to the Global Forum on ’ Evolving Markets’ held in Washington DC. Narendra Modi was yet the Chief Minister of Gujarat, though the Prime Ministerial candidate.
Gujarat (196,204 sq.km) is three times bigger than Sri Lanka (65,610 sq.km). It has a multi-religious population and had seen extremely violent communal strife preceding and following India’s independence. Mahatma Gandhi was born in this state. Under four successive terms of Narendra Modi’s Chief Ministership, the state has been a relative oasis of peace and is the fastest growing (10+% annually) within India. A people who have been renowned through the ages as excellent tradesmen. have become also leading entrepreneurs. A state with limited agricultural capabilities has been transformed into a leading agricultural producer. Exports of industrial goods are growing by leaps and bounds. Electricity and water are no longer the bug bears they were.
Open Letter To All Leaders Of The Opposition; Come Together Or Perish, One By One!
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” ~Ernest Hemingway
This missive or column, whatever you may call it, is intended for all those who claim to represent the broad masses of the land: Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher and all others. In a context of political parties, it is directed at the United National Party (UNP), Democratic Party (DM), Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Sri Lanka Freedom Party (CBK wing), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and any other political entity identified with resistance to ‘Familiocracy’, nepotism, corruption, racism, religious disharmony, financial bungling, wasteful State-sponsored carnivals, economic amateurism, ill-planned infrastructure building and all other anti-societal mechanisms and election gimmickry and to their leaders who are at present embroiled in a distressing dilemma as to how to displace the current governing coalition led by the Rajapaksas. Read More