The world environment is so much damaging our sensitivities. Do we, as parents, teachers realise these developments? Are our children growing up in this environment of utter insensitivity? We are not sure how far the education community is sensitive to these questions. Consider some of the developments. September 11, commonly referred to as “9/11″ came,…
The big picture of education vision
Narayanamurthy’s Leadership Institute Can leaders be “produced”? There is one good news. That is about Mr. Narayanamurthy of the famed Infosys. He has set up a 250 acre campus in his birth place, Mysore, as part of Infosys initiative to develop what he calls` leaders of tomorrow’. I am not precise in quoting his words,…
Life of Thyagaraja
Classical music must innovate and draw young listeners. Indian’s weakness for myth-making, forgetting history, making heroes of saint, politicians, plain villains! In the West, much new, innovative music created and much new style of music writing. I was reading through, for the second time, of a life of the Carnatic music legend, Tyagaraj, because a…
How I became an entrepreneur?
Nothing in my life prepared me for an entrepreneur! No one would believe how I had changed or to use a current phrase, how I had re-invented myself! This thought ran through my mind recently as I was glancing through the pages of any old book I edited when we launched the Vadamalai Media Group….
Agriculture marketing a high priority!
Why then governments allow farmers suicides even now? There were two farmers suicides in the month of July. The two were in Karnataka. One in Tumkur district and another in Gulbarga district. The Tumkur farmers committed suicide by hanging himself in his field and the causes are the same ones known to the Prime Minister…
Teach music, celebrate music day!
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…
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…
What is news?
What the Indian Information and Broadcasting Minister must be doing? There are some exciting things happening in the India media: print and TV. There is also much contradiction in the minds of media owners as to what constitutes news for the Indian audience. Even some of the well-established English newspapers are filling up the pages…