So,what hopes for our leaders to take India forward? E ven highly educated Indians, I mean those with foreign education qualifications and training don’t seem to know how the world is moving forward. Those Indians with foreign qualifications, with MBAs, are employed in corporate world. They are either owner entrepreneurs or employed by businessmen at…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Agriculture can’t grow in isolation!
We need to further remove the many controls on the agri sector Unless we become an open economy, there is not much chance for agri diversification! Indian agriculture is “not satisfactory’, says Sharad Pawar the agriculture minister. Why this state of affairs had come about? The minister of course can’t open his mouth! He might…
Democracy and dynastic politics
Elected Prime Minister, limiting Prime Minister’s terms, establishing democratic norms in parties are critical for sustainable democratic traditions. UK and USA are taken to be the most perfect forms of democratic countries. In the world itself, now it is estimated that out of some 190 odd countries nearly 133 or so countries are democracies, however…
English country house defines rural England!
What defines rural India? An invitation from my English hostess is waiting for me to pay a visit to her country house in northern England of Cumberland country. This is very much near the Lake District made famous by Wordsworth. My hostess, Mrs.Dikcenson, had been our family friend ever since I was a student at…
Caste, Class and Children out of school!
[youtube]i7AY_ljG23Q[/youtube] India is a caste/class society and there are gross inequalities.This shows up in our present education scenario. More so when violence takes strange forms in our society. See the Maharashtra Dalit issue violence and the W.Bengal Mamata Banerjee anti-development violence! From W.Bengal to TN,from Assam to Maharashtra we see these new phenomena of OBC/creamy…
Dreams remain-Letter to Sonia Gandhi
A vision for India, yes! What divides India? What unites India? I wrote a letter to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. Rather a long letter. A letter in her capacity as the President of the Indian National Congress. The party is 121 years old and when I read a book, the past one hundred and more years…
We learn from books, learn from others’ lives
I have been reading Bertrand Russell all through my life. I started with his” Problems of Philosophy”, sometime in the Fifties, on the suggestion of a friend who said” that might be useful for your exam for Oxford”. That was at a time when the Oxford College (New College) asked me to do some essays…
Books, old and new
Rt.Hon.V.S.Srinivasa Sastri How Indian Nationalism evolved? Life and Times of Sir Pherozeshah Methta By Rt.Hon.V.S.Srinivasa Sastri, 1945, PP 225 This is an old book, almost moth-eaten; I laid my hand in an old bookshop. But what a book! This book, as I see, has lots of lessons, even warnings, to the present day India, the…