Saravanan's Blog

Source:  http://www.portwings.in/editorial/modi-needs-a-better-economic-advisor/ Editorial in Port Wings, April 15, 2015: While the Prime Minister Narendra Modi exuding great confidence among the countrymen at every available forum, be it a corporate-sponsored meetings or through his Mann Ki Baat, that the mess created by previous governments in New Delhi will be cleared and indeed a new era will dawn soon, his chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian, the US-based thinker roped in by Sudhesi-loving BJP Government, speaks exactly opposite to his views . Recently, Subramanian was in Chennai and where he emphatically said that the big bang reforms are frankly not applicable to a country like India as there was multiple veto centres, multiple decision making centres and was very difficult to pass through a decisive change. Though Narendra Modi, after being elected to lead the world’s largest democracy about a year ago, announced that his government will walk the talk o...

Source:http://www.portwings.in/general/tacit-support-from-china-japan-helps-flourish-redsanders-smuggling-experts/ Port Wings News Network: The recent killing of 20 woodcutters from Tamil Nadu in the Seshachalam Hills, Andhra Pradesh, for allegedly smuggling redsanders has opened a fierce debate among the activists on the sophisticated shadow network of smuggling of the products banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES). Besides, the killings also raised serious doubts over the government of Andhra Pradesh’s ability on curbing the smugglers and also the moral responsibility of China and Japan, which is accepting the illegally traded goods giving scant regard to CITES obligation that put the onus on both the countries to curb smuggling. What is Redsanders: Red Sanders is an endangered species found naturally only in four districts of Andhra Pradesh. The tree growth is extremely slow and takes decades to g...