This thought flashed through my mind like a lightening rod yesterday when I saw the video of a BBC debate in the Westminster Hall in London The subject of the debate in which two heavyweights participated was Ancient Athens vs. Ancient Rome! Who were the participants? Mr. Boris Johnson, currently the British foreign minister in…
Category: Education
We need a new liberal and open society education system and values
Mere academic discussion alone won’t transform Indian education! We need a broad social and political ideology! Those opens up and integrate into a new class-based liberal society where the upper class, the middle class and the rest of the classes feel the society opened up and accommodate all citizens as enjoying equal rights and opportunities…
What makes news in education nowadays?
It is fairly predictable Yes, it is! Any negative news is only news! Other than negative news is no news This is the rule of the so many TV news channels! Why education only! It is also true for many of our other concerns! The Israeli Prime Minister is on a state visit to India,…
Educators: how much they must be educated?
No need for any education? Is it only the entrepreneurial instinct that matter? Or, the educators must be the most enlightened people? In new ideas and articulations? Decide in whatever fashion you want! Here are certain new ideas and new ideological convictions! That could give the Indian context, the present times and the challenges we…
This is liberal education for Indians!
The London Crown Court proceedings on Vijay Mallya! The British media hasn’t given a damn about what is going on in the British courts, neither of the proceedings against Vijay Mallya nor the Indian media, except for the short sensationalism the persona of Mallya invites As for a deeper and serious study of how India…
Culture, the most potent power, you know!
Leonardo Da Vinci, By Walter Issacson, pages 599, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2017 Culture can over-ride many other determinants of how a country or people are judged. So, culture’s power of impacting countries and societies need to be understood and reiterated. Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, just the two from Italy to have made the…
Educators: how much they must be educated?
No need for any education? Is it only the entrepreneurial instinct that matter? Or, the educators must be the most enlightened people? In new ideas and articulations! Decide in whatever fashion you want! Here are certain new ideas and new ideological convictions that could give the Indian context, the present times and the challenges we…
See humanity in a new light!
This is the message from the new Abu Dhabi museum! Look at Abu Dhabi universal new museum! There are lessons for India here! What makes nations big and small? Not their geography or the population or its military power, it is a new set of universal values, new set of public conduct and also the…