Category: Education

In what direction Indian education is evolving? Education is a topic on which everybody has an opinion, right? We feel discouraged to speak on education simply for this very reason. Fortunately, there is so much  wide awareness of the importance of education that  everyone, from the rich to the poor, from the ignoramus to the…

What is this ugly practice of unfair privileges and practices in education? One curious feature of Indian education system, political and bureaucratic establishment as based in Delhi, leads to a series of inequalities of opportunities and also denial of opportunities equitably to all citizens. Here is one such observation. Yes, education is a very sensitive…

Politically correct pronouncements and the ground-level realities There was this empty debate on the recent Delhi high court judgement on the wrong  policy of one Delhi-based IAS officers'(or IAS Officers wives-run) Sanskriti school  for reserving 60 per cent of the admission to IAS officers ‘children. Delhi is the middle class haven for all sorts of…

What is common and what is uncommon? Higher education in India can’t be dictated by middle class mania like merit only. We have to design a higher education system that shape and strengthens the Indian social and cultural fabric and also enriches life of the common man with a unique Indian personality.  With traditions and…

Not as much as you imagined. How to correct deficiencies? Best ideas don’t come on their own. You have to push it from outside. As in politics, so in education.  A brief news item on the use of computers in schools was shocking. In Karnataka, the most IT savvy state the use of computers, in…

Do they live up to their ideals? Do they produce leaders for the betterment of the society? Just now I read in the Financial Times (London) that in the forthcoming London Mayoral election one of the contestants are a millionaire’s son and the other a bus conductor’s son. Zac Goldsmith, a millionaire environmental campaigner has…

Obama’s image takes a beating! India’s image too at risk! The influx of refugees mostly from Syria and North Africa into Europe is reaching epidemic proportions. Harrowing pictures of people, women, children and men had touched the millions of global citizens. The really shocking pictures of three year old dead on the beach, the inhuman…

Where is India heading? Let us settle with the ground-level reality! The rich, the middle class and the poor have their own education goals, please note it. In India, there is hypocrisy when it comes to education. Education today is seen more and more in terms of money and profits for the most efficient and…