There are new books on the Mahatma and they bring out new insights and perspectives! It is also time to assess the contributions of the great leader with some critical questioning. So that we get from World War-I to Partition and the present times in Indian politics when Hindutva has become a creed for narrow…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Agriculture Insurance Company?
Where is it? Farmers’ litigations: reduce pending court cases. Farmers must be compulsorily insured and also their healthcare insurance. Farmers are also prone to much litigation. So, please take steps to reduce the number of litigations in which farmers, both the sides, sometimes as tenants and land lords or sometime out of rivalries or jealousies…
Agriculture Insurance Company?
Where is it? Farmers’ litigations: reduce pending court cases. Farmers must be compulsorily insured and also their healthcare insurance. Farmers are also prone to much litigation. So, please take steps to reduce the number of litigations in which farmers, both the sides, sometimes as tenants and land lords or sometime out of rivalries or jealousies…
Agriculture, the very soul of India!
Let the public and the corporate bigwigs realise! Indian media landscape doesn’t spot the place and role of agriculture in India’s development paradigm! Indian media landscape is highly distorted. Priorities are not clear. There is an explosion of TV news channels, alright! Where do the peoples or the country’s development priorities come in? Whether the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a 60-feet statue of a great Jat leader, Sir Chotu Ram
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, unveiled a 60-feet tall statue of a great Jat leader, Sir Chotu Ram, and spoken high of the pre-Independence day leader of farmers. Sir Chotu Ram had mobilised the people, peasants, to emerge as beneficiaries of many development projects, the Bhakra Nagal dam in particular that made Punjab and Haryana as…
How is Indian education doing? Not really well!
Indian education needs to know its historic context, its evolution during the freedom struggle and its future! What are the education ideals and the current practices that grip our attention? The international rankings of universities by the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) ranks India’s higher education very low. And the news is that this…
Free movement of ideas! That’s fine!
But free movement of people! That seems a big current issue! Oxford Vice Chancellor is in India! The Madam Chancellor wants more Indian students. But then the British government puts a cap on free entry of Indian students.The UK universities relax qualifications for the Chinese students.So, more money might come from China. How many Indian…
Let us make our education pursuit a creative endeavour!
Indian education has to accomplish range of roles to protect and promote India’s multiple languages Of course, retain the English language as an all India medium. Make India an education hub. The many ironies, contradictions and anomalies of Indian education are there and it is for the genius to resolve issues and draw up a…