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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao, Jr, was born in 1953 and brought up in Hyderabad, where he attended St George’s Grammar School and Hyderabad Public School. He spent six years in Chennai, reading for BA (history) at Loyola College and MA (English) at the University Department of English.
We do not have credible ways to deal with our scientific organisations, at the administrative level and in terms of public opinion. Read the entire column »
What has politics got to do with literature? Politics is about power and literature has to do with sensitive matters pertaining to feelings and sensibilities. Read the entire column »
Politicians and analysts are obsessed with the caste calculus when discussing the upcoming assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the so-called cockpit of Indian politics. Read the entire column »
We now know the familiar story that the launch of Sputnik, the unmanned satellite into orbit, by the then Soviet Union in 1957 made the United States get into what became the space race. Read the entire column »
Groups that want an accountable state are not thinking innovatively of downsizing the state as one of the ways of containing and curbing corruption. Read the entire column »
On a larger social scale, it is a battle between classes represented by Hazare and associates and castes represented Hindi heartland political parties. Read the entire column »
The problem with the Congress-led UPA government is that it is committing too many forced and unforced errors. It is not the fault of the media. Read the entire column »
It is unfair to blame the mindless television news channels for staging mock battles of ideas on the so-called burning issues of the day. Read the entire column »