Bring in music and dance into our cramming education! World Music Day was celebrated in Bangalore on June 21 all over the world. In Bangalore it was celebrated on June 18, by the Bangalore-based Alliance Francaise de Bangalore! Its director Mr.Eric Rousseau (what a famous surname!) narrated how France started this day in 1982 and…
Category: Education
A Unique Educator J. Krishnamurti
What exactly is his education? The life and death of Krishnamurti by Mary Lutyens, pp230, 1990 This is a beautifully written book. On a man who is Indian and an international personality, a philosopher, a self-declared iconoclast and a believer and non-believer at the same time, a guru of all gurus and yet contradicted himself…
Prof.Krishna Kumar on Indian education
Prof.Krishna Kumar is a retired Delhi university professor of education. He is currently the Arjun Singh nominee as the Director of National Council for Education(NCERT). He along with Prof.Yashpal are charged with revamping the School Curriculum. Both are eminently suited to the job. Let us hope they succeed where others, other angels and devils failed!…
US-bound Indians growing!
Manhattan Indians and ‘illegal Indian aliens’! We read so often about tapping the talents ofIndians living in America.Dr.Manmohan Singh, our Prime Minister had in his wisdom constituted one more Commission, this time, it is Knowledge Commission! High sounding? Yes, it is! What is it by the way? No one knows for sure. It was, as…
Corruption : yes, education sector competes with police, revenue!
Of course the big fish escaping the CBI net is no news The cunning” single directive” for CBI had made CBI no more such a respected or feared body. There was this report. Transparency International India and the Centre for Media Studies. Delhi, the capital is ranked the 10th most corrupt State! Bihar tops, Karnataka…
Corporate charities need focus
Education and healthcare Let us concentrate on time bound targeted goals! Two rural people-focused healthcare programmes make news. All the corporates, companies and corporate hospitals can take up these types of social ventures in all States. Dr.Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister says poverty would be halved by 2015. This goal is set out as one of…
How to understand China?
Life after the Nobel Prize Or, an afternoon at Santiniketan! Why this title! The other day I was speaking to my long-time friend in Santiniketan. What can you do when you are caught up in a remote village where you don’t have Internet Broadband connectivity. Accustomed to live in hightech Bangalore where latest technological gadgets…
How I spoke at the Oxford Debating Society?
One of the Oxford’s enduring institutions is the Oxford Union. It had produced leaders who went on to build an Empire, fight the World Wars, establish international standards in all walks of life. Here is how I was able to fulfill my life’s ambition of participating in this august body. I a way, I imagined…