PS Sivaswamy Aiyer: Forgotten Indian Liberal – Part II

This is my send piece on the great Classical Liberal of India PS Sivasamy Aiyer whose life and works are forgotten in his home country. He had interesting thoughts and views on Nehru and M.K Gandhi.

I conclude the piece with the below para:

"PS Sivaswamy Aiyer had maintained an extraordinary independent thinking and intellectual integrity throughout his public life. He was profound thinker and contributor towards the building of constitutional liberalism conceived in liberal principles. Thus, there is enormous scope to rewrite the history of pre-independent India with recounting the monumental contribution of liberal thinkers like Sivasamy Aiyer who have contributed significantly to the Indian liberalism." 

PS Sivaswamy Aiyer: Forgotten Indian Liberal

This is my first of two part articles on "PS Sivaswami Aiyer's life and works are relevant to the contemporary public discourse but completely forgotten, even in his native state. Sivaswamy Aiyer was a prominent legal luminary, administrator, educationist, scholar, liberal thinker and statesman. He was liberal constitutionalist with a firm belief in constitutional rights, individual liberty and freedom."

Can Good Governance Fetch better Ranking for Erode City?

This is my 3rd article on the issues and challenges faced by Erode City which is situated in western part of Tamil Nadu. It is a tiny city with few lakh population, a highly dynamic city with global markets link but the city's basic infrastructure services are pathetic. Full article is here.

This article explains about the ranking of Erode city at national level on different parameters over the past years, very bad shape!

I have lived last few years in Erode city experiencing the worlds of involving closely with the city corporation as development professional. At the end of it, it does not make any sense of most of the efforts taken in the name of Development at city level without involving citizens participants and taking advantages of technology in reforms of governance systems riddled with corruptions at all levels.