A country is without an education policy Education is not just a day-to-day activity as it is with a large number of stake-holders today. Education in India has become a highly commercial activity. Take a newspaper or turn a TV screen, they scream with full-page ads that proclaim, if we can so put it, a…
What is next in education? More of the same!
Commercialization and money-making? It has been one full-term and the beginning of the second term! The education policy hasn’t been completed. We don’t want to sound shallow and by any means non-serious. Education is a tough field at any time. Education is as serious as you are and as comprehensive as your learning and perceptions….
The political developments over the NRC and the CAA!
The eruption of large scale violence and aftermath of events! Isn’t it time to call off the controversial legislations? The violence in UP, the country’s largest State and the hub of the 200 million strong Muslim citizens must be sending all the signals for retreating on the path of the same policies? By any reckoning…
Political uncertainties at the time of economic slowdown widespread protests over NRC and CAA.
What are the short and medium-term implications?A confrontationist polity? Agri economic slowdown? Yes, the many critical sectors, agriculture, rural India and the generation of employment for the youth etc are all giving a sense of uncertainty. This is not good. We need to speedily cultivate a collective sense of solidarity, a sense of reconciliation and…
Liberal freedoms and the illiberal fears!
India passes through a new phase!How the people and the rulers are understanding issues and challenges? The Maharashtra inglorious episode is an aberration or a new trend? Let us hope this is just an aberration that is cut short for the common good of all the people of India and also for the wiser counsel…
Remembering Varghese Kurian and many other agricultural pioneers
Agriculture today is vastly changed and we need to understand the current world of agriculture! Indian agriculture, a field for pessimism or optimism? Agriculture is always on the top of the minds and tongues of Indian politicians, right? Even in the current unseemly political adventure in Maharashtra politics agriculture is talked about. Sharad Pawar the…
Farmers, one more flip on the TV screens only?
When do we care for farmers, if at all?When Sharad Pawar goes to meet the PM? Yes, it looks so. The other day when the government formation in Maharashtra was at its most hectic pace, Sharad Pawar the senior most old Congress leader, now the chief of the much depleted Nationalist Congress party (NCP), was…
Democracy’s golden moments!
Sharad Pawar’s finest hour!A leader of unmatched character and why, even moral fibre at a time of such a serious crisis situation! Maharashtra developments, by any reckoning, is a watershed moment in the way the incumbent Central government demonstrated its new governing principles and strategies. The pre-dawn coup and the swift movements of exchanges of…