The Golden Age of Greece! Some contemporary parallels! As I finished this column, a thought flashed through mind like a lightning! It was Tagore, Gandhi and even Pandit Nehru and such great Indian leaders, as far as we can see, didn’t travel through Greece and Rome or studied or quoted from these two great civilisations,…
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Modi government faces new troubles!
By-election setbacks, allies rebellion and the banking and other scandals! Indian politics is maturing. After a long time we saw the 2014 elections set a new evolution path. Once, the only party, the Congress-led government was the one and only way of political life. Yes, the regional parties like the Dravidian and other parties came…
CBSE exams: Question papers leak
A new committee? Waste, waste, sheer waste! Of time and money and energies and our own imagination! Government sets up a committee to probe the leaks! Yes, this is done. It is in our view a big waste! Waste of precious time, energy and our own imagination! The very structure of the highly centralized CBSE…
For a historic foundation in Indian education
We have to search for historic sources In India today, there is almost a mad rush to make money in education. Almost all the schools and colleges, lately, even the private universities are concentrating on big investments in this line. While the quantitative expansion of education is welcome, considering the very backward nature of our…
Rural India in distress?
Or, who knows today’s villages better? It is our firm belief that only those who live in the villages or those who have links with the rural India as landowners, traditional owners of agricultural lands, are those with much stake and can speak for the villagers’ points of view. Unfortunately the Indian media industry, both…
Take education seriously!
Introduce reforms with well-qualified to do it Education’s many new challenges! Education is a public cause! Not a private profit! This is the School Journal’s motto! But then there are many new challenges to education as a current ideal. There are practical issues and also theoretical and even philosophical issues. First the current issues. There…
Opposition in Democracy
How the Indian polity is evolving? How the ground-realities are evaded? Yes, there is also a historical cycle to this phenomenon of holding on to power, from ancient Greece to modern day Indian democratic realities! The Greece we visited recently as a family tour, we mean the journey to the ancient classical Greece of the…
Travels in classical Greece
The life and death of Socrates! The one voice that stood out all through the centuries! What makes Socrates’ life and death? Some reflections on a recent trip to Greece and the historic sites! You see, that since my travels in Greece recently, I have come back and not yet recovered! I am dumbstruck! Not…