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…
Technologies that define our lives : IBM, Sony, Apple
How media brands are built? Just now I read how Singapore is the number one tech-savvy economy. Beating America to the fifth position in the “Networked Readiness Index” by the World Economic Forum.U.S.lost its top position after a three year reign. India and China have improved their positions at 39 and 41! Japan and South…
Macaulay legacy? Does it still hurt pride?
So, can i draw the conclusion, however tentative? That is : we Indians are still haunted by the Macaulay Ghost! In this day of globalisation imigration of the educated middle class Indians to the Americans shores, our victories on the IT front and much else, when America is supposed to rule the world. How do…
How to build a new character for the people?
Challenges for Indian Education Indian education can’t be left to the politicians or the academics alone. Unfortunately, in India of the current socio-political configuration, there are not even strong-willed leaders nor the independent academics. The universities are politicised and the vice-chancellors irrespective of their locations are all the political creatures. The state universities are under…