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…
After the PM’s visits to UK and USA
Now, India’s voice abroad, Will be heard with respect? I had read carefully the PM’s speeches at Oxford University in UK and later when he spoke before the Congress (US Parliament) in Washington. Yes, they have been carefully written and delivered, also, carefully in the typical Dr.Singh’s fashion, low profile, bureaucratic style, without offence to…
Even educated Indians don’t bother to know the world!
So,what hopes for our leaders to take India forward? E ven highly educated Indians, I mean those with foreign education qualifications and training don’t seem to know how the world is moving forward. Those Indians with foreign qualifications, with MBAs, are employed in corporate world. They are either owner entrepreneurs or employed by businessmen at…
Agriculture can’t grow in isolation!
We need to further remove the many controls on the agri sector Unless we become an open economy, there is not much chance for agri diversification! Indian agriculture is “not satisfactory’, says Sharad Pawar the agriculture minister. Why this state of affairs had come about? The minister of course can’t open his mouth! He might…
Democracy and dynastic politics
Elected Prime Minister, limiting Prime Minister’s terms, establishing democratic norms in parties are critical for sustainable democratic traditions. UK and USA are taken to be the most perfect forms of democratic countries. In the world itself, now it is estimated that out of some 190 odd countries nearly 133 or so countries are democracies, however…
English country house defines rural England!
What defines rural India? An invitation from my English hostess is waiting for me to pay a visit to her country house in northern England of Cumberland country. This is very much near the Lake District made famous by Wordsworth. My hostess, Mrs.Dikcenson, had been our family friend ever since I was a student at…