I have written elsewhere, some time ago, about the number of persons who influenced my thought and also the way I think about issues. Those whom I didn’t not know personally but whose books influenced me form one set of such persons. These range from poets to philosophers, journalists, men like Boris Pasternak and other…
Building dams and inter-linking the rivers
Too many vested interests are holding up developments It is simple common-sense that there is going to be a severe shortage of water for every type of use. Drinking water itself has become a critical commodity. Even in Bangalore which is well developed and still fast developing, where Cauvery water is supplied there are severe…
TCS Ramadorai : shortfall of half a million employable graduates by 2010
Education is much more than IT skills, right? Education is multi-functional and multi-dimensional Education certainly can’t be but an economic and social reality Corporates call for merit is unrealistic and very soon the broader reality would impact on this very selfish and very short-sighted and even a sort of egotistic hemonism! At any rate, the…
Food self-sufficiency is more important than the nuclear deal!
Urban opinion needs focused on what poses real threats to India’s long-term strengths! India has signed to import 5 million tonnes of wheat! Because the market is booming for the wheat farmers of Punjab. Farmers are unwilling to sell for the government procurement agencies as the MSP is Rs.650 as against the higher prices offered…
TN poll outcome could destabilise the C. Govt.!!
Governance issues in the State as well as in New Delhi Uncomfortable political illegitimacies and nonsense economics! Dr.Manmohan Singh might talk of 8 per cent growth. Finance Minister too might holds forth on such grand themese. But when it comes to political alliances, the PM and the FM and others have to eat humble pie!…
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 the…
Agriculture’s many unattended problems!
Why Ministers dont talk as much before? The Prime Minister might have imagined that 2 years in office is a time for celebrations.But suddenly he is caught in a multiple crisis situation.After 2 years in office is faced with perhaps the biggest crisis of his career ,first,the OBC quota,next,the office of profit Bill.Will he survive…
Education is not about jobs or money!
Education is an ideology,you should know! The oft-heard charge,rather reckless,by the IT,ITes captains about the “unemployable”graduates even from the best of the arts and science faculties for the BPO jobs,is rather crude and made by “education illiterates”!Yes,these super-rich It barons imagine they can speak anything and get away! Time, to correct them! India,the best mind…