My Oxford years : crowded by philosophers and historians! A.J.P.Taylor, Isiah Berlin, James Joll Indians need to learn to distrust much of British written history. The immediate provocation for this essay is the reading of A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990), the well-known British historian, for the second time. I had the good fortune to attend his history…
What we read? Who gives us? Who controls our thinking?
We seem to be reading our daily newspapers and much of the books or TV news as dished out by American media. Have you ever thought of who gives us these news or views or thought processes? Yes, it is the world newspapers, world TV channels controlled by nine transnational corporations America dominates a monopoly…
Why I remain unimpressed by our scientists!
They may be intelligent and clever.They are also cunning and quite callous too! Yes, I know what protests I would invite if I say this! We have great scientists and technologists.Nobel Prizes are not alien to Indian science. All these are known and widely publicised and we often pat ourselves what we have achieved.My only…
A beautiful India! A culturally rich India!
This is the India I want to promote! What India we think of when we think of India? What is the genius of India? Ask a politician or leaders in any areas! Religion or industry. You will be disappointed! They will have their own answers. As for the professional leaders they might think of their…
The future of our languages
Every two weeks a language disappears I read the other day a column by Mr.H.Y.Sharadaprasad,the longtime press secretary to Indira Gandhi. The title of the article is: what is the future for Indian languages? He was writing about the Kannada language and literature. Kannada language, among the Indian languages, is considered (by Kannada enthusiast at…
What is the meaning of education?
How to define education? Recently there was this news from Delhi. Mr.Amar Singh,the Samajwadi leader was denied admission to his twin grand daughters in a prestigious school in Delhi.The private schools in Delhi,as readers unfamiliar with the Delhi education sociology must know,is run like a mafia-type big money operation! Yes,this is the Delhi society’s school…
After the Indus Valley civilization!
India’s big breakthrough in technological skills now! Yes, this is no exaggeration! Indians now seem to be achieving highest world class skills in a variety of technological skills. There is now a revolution unprecedented. I mean the IT revolution. A new generation of highly skilled engineering graduates, a few lakhs, who have transformed into a…
What minimum programme for Indian schools?
Should we teach patriotism? Rich schools, or schools, urban schools, rural schools; Schools exist in isolation and what binds the Indian schools? What minimum programme for Indian schools? Regional and language chauvinism had destroyed an Indian identity in the youth .We need some loud thinking, identify the regional politicians who divided the Indian mind and…