Whoever has the following agenda should seek my vote in the next general elections in India
0. The education system in India was designed to produce servile clerks and has more or less continued from british era. It needs to be fixed to let people from young age be responsible for their own actions and choices. Right now horrible criminal acts committed by young people labeled 'ragging' go un-punished because the permissive society doesn't hold these young adults responsible for their actions. Start with removing the requirements for parental consent for anything and let the kids from a very young age learn to be independent and responsible citizens. This also entails removing the current discriminatory set of laws applied to women's hostels and making the institutes practicing such discrimination liable.
1.The justice system. Broken window theory. Let there be small number of simple rules and then let no crime go un-punished. And yeah remember the last refuge of law-makers in India for infringing upon freedoms like 'greater good', 'corrupting influence on our culture', 'public morality', 'hurt sentiments of any particular violent social group' etc. should be strongly done away with by equally applying the laws to individuals as well as mobs and by erring on the side of freedom.
2. The budgetary allocation system. Let no politician or bureaucrat decide the priorities on how and where the money should be spent. Follow the US system of spending the taxes collected with the consent of 'local self-ruling community'. If people want old-age homes or libraries or schools or parks or nuclear power plants , it should be left to them. No more robbing Shyam to pay Ram. If a local community doesn't raise enough money through taxes they don't get to demand government services. Monetary policy should have a clear goal of inflation targeting as opposed to pandering to multiple vested interests of exporters, bureaucrats and large businesses. An individual(or a small business) should be able to raise a loan on similar credit terms from a foreign country as a large company/financial institution using ECB route if they don't like the deal from India based financial institutions.
3. The election system: State funding of elections and out-sized pay package for politicians should remove the reasons for corruption and let students and young people aspire for a career in politics.
4. The financial system, especially make it easier to create financial institutions unencumbered by cost of compliance of outmoded and outdated ham-handed regulation.
5. The regulatory framework should be non-discriminatory and technology neutral. Too much micro-management of how and why things should be done by players creates non-future-proof regulations. Examples include the current telecom mess and the IT act, taxation laws, one time government activities bound with dates.
6. Empower the local self-rule of communities without letting them dictate how individuals should act though. For e.g. who decided that the office of police commissioner can dictate when people go to sleep or conduct business in a city. Maharashtra shop and establishment act(and similar laws) are retrograde.
7. Right to property be made a fundamental right.

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Assembling and programming any form of communication content like signs, signals, writing, pictures, images and sounds, and placing it in electronic form on electro-magnetic waves on specified frequencies and transmitting it through space or cables to make it continuously available on the carrier waves, so as to be accessible to single or multiple users through receiving devices either directly or indirectly.
- Definition of broadcasting in the draft Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill, 2007
FREE SPEECH activists fear this definition can be used to extend the Bill to cover the Internet. “Of course, they will censor the Net using this Bill,” says technology commentator Arun Mehta. “In any case, the Internet can also be used for broadcasting.” That means not only video or TV broadcasting over the Net, or Internet Protocol TV, would be covered, but just about any online activity. The fourth draft in 10 years and the Union information and broadcasting ministry has still not been able to so much as introduce the Broadcast Bill in Parliament, due to massive media opposition. It’s expected to be tabled in Parliament in the winter session. But so far only television news has been the subject of debate on the “draconian” law.
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Read the full story written by Shivam Vij on Tehelka

Indian government chooses Chinese style control over freedom of thought while allowing permitting limited financial freedom. Though it seems that the economists are also getting worried about the meddlesome behavior of the government in recent times.

The aim of a free market is to allow for distribution of "effort" into "profitable" segments of the economy since by definition there is higher profit to be earned in any segment with lower competition and less players. There is also a strong motivation for innovation and creation of new segments for free market play. However there are certain markets where free markets do not naturally exist either due to regulatory failure e.g. ISP business in India where the incumbent telecom monopoly not only refuses to un-bundle the last mile but also fails to meet the growing demand for broadband. The waiting time for a broadband is essentially infinite in large parts of the country, so much for the year of broadband. Certain markets are not free because of lack of rule of law in lawless parts of the country. For e.g. certain bus operators in Noida essentially run an illegal monopoly/duopoly to and fro Delhi. Certain businesses like cable TV operations ( ergo before the advent of satellite Dish TV) had been essentially muscle networks with no reason for innovation or good customer service. A lot of businesses in the natural resources sector are government granted monopolies because of the nature of exploration business. Certain businesses like news on radio(community or otherwise) conflict with the interests of entrenched system of government owned communication media organizations like prasar bharati. Certain businesses like education sector hithertho considered as social sectors see advent of private business interests now bypassing the regulatory restrictions by under-handed dealings with vested/well-entrenched political interests. All in all our country needs reform and participation from educated classes. The old weapons of satyagraha and the public space for protests is shrinking. I guess we need a lobbying and media organization to carefully formulate and articulate educated class view on indian politics and governance. Register yourself as a voter today.

So how are we doing this year in India

Stock Markets ? Up and Up
Real Estate ? Up and Stablized
Startups ? Hot and happening
Inflation ? Oil Prices ? Up
Bandwidth Availability ? Cheaper but no real improvement
Freedom ? worse off than last year
Taxes ? Income Tax is same as last year which means effective increase, Service Tax has increased more, as a popular saying goes we work from April to December paying taxes this year
Bureaucracy? Increasing its stranglehold once again on poor Indians
Social Justice? Symbolic steps like increasing reservations in Elite institutions, doesn't help the cause, empowerment and freedom would have helped far more
Corruption? Information Technology has helped speed up tasks but corruption levels remain at a historical high
Right To Information Act? Will make it toothless this year
News Media? When breaking news is Sachin will play again, I give up hope but citizen journalist initiatives are welcome change from the sensationalization and trivialization of news

We might be on the verge of a 2nd major communication revolution powered by Internet