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…
Communists say IT is not essential service!
Our leaders must understand the young generations mood Yes, the CPI (M) Politbureau that met in New Delhi recently saw the West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee clashing with his colleagues over the need for banningany strikes in the IT sector in the State. West Bengal under the this now wise CM is trying to…
What the new school curriculum would achieve?
After 1000 years of India’s slavery! After 300 years of colonial education! After reading through the latest collection of essays, ” Argumentative Indian” by Prof.Amartya Sen I had read an article by another eminent Professor.This time it is the distinguished historian Romila Thapar. It so happens I know them both and so well! So, I…
Nobel Laureate says India has no thinkers!
50 Vice Chancellors meet:what they will achieve? V.S.Naipaul, the Nobel Prize winning author of Indian origin is known for his provocative remarks. He is a maverick. In a recent interview to New York Times he said: there are no thinkers in India! A country of one billion people, he says, has no thinkers! It is…