When Bankers talk! They forget small people! They forget their high positions, their social responsibility! When bankers make news it is always about big finance. Big money speaks loud and hence makes news. Have you ever read about any big banker or bankers talking about priority credit targets? Or, the social responsibilities of public sector…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Manmohan Singh Government has an education policy?
Education for All? In our lifetime? The Manmohan Singh Government is in office for more than four months The American Presidential candidates are debating face to face as we are writing this editorial! The Democratic candidate Kerry says that India is adding more graduates into its IT industry while America is doing nothing! Fine, even…
Builders of temples and river-links!
Temple first or river links first? Yes, this is election time. Election time is not for truth or hard realities. Election time is to hide the truths and hard realities. That is why the `India shining campaign’ is turning into much mud-sling and some character assassination! So everybody gets much bruises or other! Prime Minister…
St.Stephen’s College and the alumni
Delhi bureaucratic class distort education values There was this column in a national newspaper, on Stephenians in Parliament. About the students of St.Stephen’s College in Delhi entering Parliament by one old student now serving the UN in New York and a talented writer. The column added some names that were not the college alumni! St.Stephen…
How to sensitize our teachers?
The world environment is so much damaging our sensitivities. Do we, as parents, teachers realise these developments? Are our children growing up in this environment of utter insensitivity? We are not sure how far the education community is sensitive to these questions. Consider some of the developments. September 11, commonly referred to as “9/11″ came,…
The big picture of education vision
Narayanamurthy’s Leadership Institute Can leaders be “produced”? There is one good news. That is about Mr. Narayanamurthy of the famed Infosys. He has set up a 250 acre campus in his birth place, Mysore, as part of Infosys initiative to develop what he calls` leaders of tomorrow’. I am not precise in quoting his words,…
Life of Thyagaraja
Classical music must innovate and draw young listeners. Indian’s weakness for myth-making, forgetting history, making heroes of saint, politicians, plain villains! In the West, much new, innovative music created and much new style of music writing. I was reading through, for the second time, of a life of the Carnatic music legend, Tyagaraj, because a…
How I became an entrepreneur?
Nothing in my life prepared me for an entrepreneur! No one would believe how I had changed or to use a current phrase, how I had re-invented myself! This thought ran through my mind recently as I was glancing through the pages of any old book I edited when we launched the Vadamalai Media Group….