Shouldn’t use intemperate language! Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was in the USA and he met President George Bush at the White House. For some reasons, the Indian Prime Minister, who is otherwise always very careful about his language lost control or otherwise and blushed before the American President. In a spontaneous outburst he said to…
Mass education? Only Governments can do!
Class education? Yes, only society decides! Education is an all-time favourite topic. ” Education for all” is a Millennium Development Goad! Yes, there is a terrific effort towards this noble goal. Realistically speaking, the 11th Plan is spending Rs.34,000 crores for education. A big jump! In the 10th Plan, the percentage of education allocation was…
A headmaster as a role model
Or a life in the wilderness? Yes, education today has become a consumer product and services. Everyone seeks education, the poor as well as the not so poor. Each segment of the society has its own views, its own priorities for seeking education. So, education has no core meaning, it had lost all meanings. For…
Education’s job is not to produce robots, right?
Not to produce manpower for IT companies! Education’s goals are noble, to produce men and women of character, citizens and give them identity etc! There is this trend today. The rather dominant and because it comes from people who made it good in making huge money, in IT and that is why the particular view…
My interest in the fine arts continues and I am also learning about the new developments.
Of course, I am no longer as interested in the fine arts as I used to be. Time moves on and we also move on. Time was when I was a student at Santiniketan and though I went there to study other academic subjects, Santiniketan immediately drew me into the many seasonal festivals for each…
McKinsey Consultants say
Organised retail is going to change the fortunes of farmers! Yes, organised retail can ensure better prices for farm products, say the leading consultancy. McKinsey is a big name in consulting. But consulting in agriculture is almost nil. We have our own in-house consultancy (Vadamalai Consultancy Services-VCS) and we know from our experience that in…
West Bengal’s Singur car project!
Where politician’s selfishness and crooked dogmatism puts off industrialists! Prakash Karat’s superficial concern and Das Munshi’s rather threatening tone! West Bengal Governor speaks the truth but not the whole truth! Mamata Banerjee’s adamancy only matched the Leftists’ dogmatic creed! So, the story of the West Bengal’s industrialisation ends in a big fiasco? Yes, that is…
Congress Party needs urgent reforms!
It must become a more democratically-constituted organisation. State-level units must enjoy total autonomy and AICC must be an affiliating unit only My political evolution, its twists and turns! Why I remain a committed nationalist and Congressman! Readers might find this title very unusual and unexpected. They are right and yet I feel it is my…