Education’s unfinished agenda! You can’t have everything in life, can you? Life doesn’t offer you too many choices, does it? Have you ever thought of these questions, do you? Yes, there is too much poverty in the world, in India! There is too much inequality, in the world, in India! There is too much denial…
We, Indians, are shameless people!
Why we worship the bureaucrats, even the most corrupt kinds? Debureaucratising Indian society is the way to a free and open society! Babus may tire, but not retire! Delhi is crowded by retired bureaucrats! PM must help to give room for new faces, new talents! Can a country of India’s size and stature be run…
All the guilty men of India’s Partition!
Shameful Flight, The Last Years of the British Empire in India,pp 231,OUP, 2006, where historic photos mislead us! India’s Partition and why we feel shy to avoid the topic? This book by a serious scholar of India’s modern history, an authoritative writer on Gandhi and Jinnah has now produced a book that would give us,…
Appoint a Cabinet Minister for Culture!
Bifurcate the HRD Ministry! We need a bold new culture policy to preserve our ancient heritages and to project our contemporary brand image. Before I write about anything else this time, I have to mention two events, one exciting, one saddening. The exciting this is about the archeological discoveries in Athens, Greece, where they have…
Education? The competitive pressures, not silly principles!
Yes, that makes for elite education in Delhi! Our School Curriculum must be raised to international standards. Reading India’s English language papers, we mean at least some of the widely read ones by the elite, could be quite disheartening! Delhi society, the very core of the power wielders, seems very brutal and ruthless when it…
Corporate hospitals and public health
Ombudsman must be posted in big hospitals There is much concern about the lack of health facilities for the vast majority of the poor. Government hospitals are suspect to be lack of quality medical service. There has been a rapid growth of big, high-tech corporate hospitals in India. Apollo had been a pioneer. So too…
Equality in education? Forget it!
Class divisions in education:we are just silent! Equality is a great illusion! In India we have been fed by our leaders from the Freedom struggle days that we will create a democracy and there will be equality of opportunities for all. Yes, our Constitution is a great document and it had proved its worth. We…
New Curriculum:for students or teachers?
The New Curriculum 2005 and the Old of 2000 have created some earthquakes of sorts in the Indian education sector. In India constitutes a class of people who have been molded in the Macualay education model and also given the way Indian middle class had grown in the pre and post-Independent India there is no…