Forum on Public Policy & Government

03/15/2022

Dr. Chandra K. Mittal Co-Founder, Indo-American Association (IAA)

Finally, after two years of COVID winter which began in March 2020, Houston welcomed the post-Covid Spring of life with 2022 Season Opener of Indo-American Association (IAA) with none other than Grammy winner Ricky Kej from India and his team of environmentally conscious musicians. The enthusiasm and excitement for Ricky’s concert was all too palpable in the air even before his performance as people began to arrive at the Wortham Center – perhaps because of long Covid fatigue and somewhat saintly look of Ricky....

Dr. Chandra K. Mittal Co-Founder, Indo-American Association (IAA) Finally, after two years of COVID winter which began in March 2020, Houston welcomed the post-Covid Spring of life with 2022 Season…

06/08/2020

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. On Memorial Day, Monday, May 25th, 2020, in Minneapolis, with his left knee pinning and pressing down the neck of George Floyd into the ground, Police Officer Derek Chau…

06/08/2020

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. On Memorial Day, Monday, May 25th, 2020, in Minneapolis, with his left knee pinning and pressing down the neck of George Floyd into the ground, Police Officer Derek Chauvin along with three other officers not only snuffed life out of George Floyd but they indeed extinguished life in American conscience. The 8 minutes and 46 seconds of uninterrupted squeezing of George Floyd’s neck by the rogue police officers as he was dying and crying “I Can’t Breathe” set a new low for American police brutality against its own citizens. [ 825 more words ]

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. On Memorial Day, Monday, May 25th, 2020, in Minneapolis, with his left knee pinning and pressing down the neck of George Floyd into the ground, Police Officer Derek Chau…

03/16/2020

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections are rising rapidly across the world with increasing incidence of morbidity and mortality, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it as pandemic. Besides, the negative effects of the viral infections on individual’s health, there is also significant negative impact on the economic health that is being globally experienced with serious societal repercussions in the future. [ 996 more words ]

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections are rising rapidly across the world with increasing incidence of morbidity and mortality, the World Health Organization (WHO) ha…

01/28/2020

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. As the current Senate Impeachment Trial of President Donald Trump is unfolding in the United States Senate, the Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is looking every which way to politically maneuver, manipulate, and rig the parliamentary process with gimmicks to acquit President Donald of wrong doing without a fair trial into the alleged constitutional misconduct in withholding the Congressionally approved Ukraine security assistance in exchange for an investigation of his political rival Joe Biden by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky. [ 821 more words ]

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. As the current Senate Impeachment Trial of President Donald Trump is unfolding in the United States Senate, the Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is looking every which wa…

11/22/2019

(Bloomberg) -- India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is putting the flagging economy back on center stage after announcing the biggest privatization drive in more than a decade and making renewed attempts to ring fence the crisis-ridden shadow banking sector.The country is in the midst of a deepeni...

11/20/2019

Adam Schiff's statement questions the morality of Republicans how they are looking at the issue of President conduct in Ukraine saga.

Rep. Adam Schiff on his Republican colleagues: "Their objection is he got caught! Their objection is that someone blew the whistle…Not that the president eng...

10/05/2019

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. If one could ever imagine of two neighboring nation-States born on the same day, of same racial stock, same history and same culture but have evolved to be such stark co…

10/05/2019

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. If one could ever imagine of two neighboring nation-States born on the same day, of same racial stock, same history and same culture but have evolved to be such stark contrast in their vision, philosophy and purpose of existence, it would be India and Pakistan, which was on full display recently at the 2019 United Nations General assembly meeting in New York. [ 906 more words ]

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. If one could ever imagine of two neighboring nation-States born on the same day, of same racial stock, same history and same culture but have evolved to be such stark co…

09/15/2019

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. One may call his governing style autocratic, his administrative approach dictatorial or his mannerism abrasive, but no one can fault Narendra Modi for his passion for India and his progressive vision for it. His unlimited energy and enthusiasm to accomplish national goals, and his commitment to solve challenging problems of India like mass poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, etc. [ 671 more words ]

By Chandra K. Mittal, Ph.D. One may call his governing style autocratic, his administrative approach dictatorial or his mannerism abrasive, but no one can fault Narendra Modi for his passion for In…

08/22/2019

New Jammu & Kashmir without Article 370.

By Dr. Chandra K. Mittal After the wave of mass hysteria, commotion and scorn, over the revocation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, subside both in India and Pakistan, political reality w…