Mounting threat of money in education business! Private sector enters with a vengeance. Who doesn’t know that the Indian education sector is undergoing a radical transformation, for good or bad? From the very start from LKG to primary and secondary education, why, even afterwards and perhaps with much more vengeance the entry into any collegiate…
How to make Indian agriculture relevant for our present times?
Let more people, politicians and experts and thinkers debate and discuss! As elections near, farmers are getting forgotten! Farmers as vote-banks are a different category of people! From being debtors and litigants farmers become pampered for short periods! You see in a democratic country like India where periodic elections every five years and in many…
Election time!
Is there time to think of agriculture and farmers? Yes, much has been talked about farmers, their own tales of woe and tonnes of promises to help them etc. Rahul Gandhi has promised the moon, all farmers’ loans he promises to wipe out! As for the BJP, the Prime Minister has vowed to protect farmers,…
The Agony and Despair of Parents and Pupils!
And the decline of education today! India’s education sector is still running an erratic education policies. There is a vacuum of education vision and it needs an urgent attention. Yes, you may be one of the luckiest not to be bothered about the education of your youngsters! They might have gone through the hell already!…
Lowest common denominator education
How many of us know that we live in an entirely new generation? In education there is literally an explosion, unseen in the past years. What sort of education India envisaged? Who are making you think about education in India? Politicians, bureaucrats or who else? A difficult question! Certainly, politicians are the last people who…
Coalition government in 2019?
That seems the one sure outcome, likely! Congress, a new sort of oligarchy! BJP’s build-up of allies shows anxiety and uncertainty! Why, the Congress confusion at many levels leaves it not with much choice and maneuverability! The BJP party and government has had its rounds of allies build-up almost complete. In some of the major…
Farmers, lately, seem to have got too many problems!
Too many government schemes, too many promises! Also, the political parties are mobilising them to march to Delhi or Mumbai demanding too many redressed of their grievances! The PM-Kisan Scheme is the latest to catch the public attention! The Central government is to pay Rs.2, 000 out of Rs.6, 000 as minimum income payment after…
Agriculture as an election 2019 issue!
Farm loan waivers and universal basic incomes! Two new buzz words! Agriculture as we near the election 2019 has come to connote many a new buzz word. It is now agri crisis, agri distress and also jobs crisis and many such trendy outbursts. If you leave out the much debated Rafael deal what are you…