A more broader agenda only can tackle the country’s education priorities. Mr. Arjun Singh the Union HRD minister is making a news! Unlike other Ministers, including the PM who are not seen or heard. Education priorities in India have got so distorted in India for so many wrong reasons many of the defeat of the…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
If India dies, who lives ?
If Parliament stops functioning where the people of the country to turn Democratic India must succeed! Senior leaders must act with moral commitment. Prime Minister says: “We are living in abnormal times. There is a deadlock in Parliament and even the normal grace period of 100 days of “honeymoon” given for every new government is…
A beautiful India!
A culturally rich India! This is the India I want to promote! What India we think of when we think of India? What is the genius of India? Ask a politician or leaders in any areas! Religion or industry. You will be disappointed! They will have their own answers. As for the professional leaders they…
Tele-medicine should reach India’s remote areas
Budget allocations for education and health Corporate hospitals. The budget makes generous allocations for education. But not enough for health. The allocations in the budget for national rural health mission allots more than just less than Rs. 2,000 more ( from Rs.8,420 crore to Rs.10,280 crore). We have a non-speaking Prime Minister and an over-talking…
Capitalism in India, Russia and China
Indian capitalism to grow faster! It is market, market and more markets! This is the new economic mantra. Now modern day capitalism is so different from what we know from the past. Capitalism in a democracy! Even the MNCs have to function under democratic laws and regulations. In India, at the level of the common…
Teach science or no education is simple ignorance!
Dangerous Asian bird flu threat! Yet we live in bliss! Already hit 3 countries! There are serious knowledge issues.Science only gives the students,more so the parents too,what is happening in the world.What is likely to happen in our own lives.We were happy to see that readers of the previous editorial in this place had taken…
Is India’s food security in danger ?
Government to import wheat & sugar ! Election time is not the time to talk of basic economic truths or substantive policy issues. And when you have the party like BJP it is extremely difficult to go for objective discussions! We have a Prime Minister who is admired widely, even abroad for what he had…
Literature and society
How literature shapes nations and peoples? The immediate provocation for writing this piece, however, came my way unexpectedly. First, the latest issue of The Economist magazine carried a page in the “Books and Arts” section a brief writeup on The Abbey Theatre, Dublin. For those who may not know anything about this historic institution ,…