Let the public and the corporate bigwigs realise! Indian media landscape doesn’t spot the place and role of agriculture in India’s development paradigm! Indian media landscape is highly distorted. Priorities are not clear. There is an explosion of TV news channels, alright! Where do the peoples or the country’s development priorities come in? Whether the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a 60-feet statue of a great Jat leader, Sir Chotu Ram
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, unveiled a 60-feet tall statue of a great Jat leader, Sir Chotu Ram, and spoken high of the pre-Independence day leader of farmers. Sir Chotu Ram had mobilised the people, peasants, to emerge as beneficiaries of many development projects, the Bhakra Nagal dam in particular that made Punjab and Haryana as…
How is Indian education doing? Not really well!
Indian education needs to know its historic context, its evolution during the freedom struggle and its future! What are the education ideals and the current practices that grip our attention? The international rankings of universities by the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) ranks India’s higher education very low. And the news is that this…
Free movement of ideas! That’s fine!
But free movement of people! That seems a big current issue! Oxford Vice Chancellor is in India! The Madam Chancellor wants more Indian students. But then the British government puts a cap on free entry of Indian students.The UK universities relax qualifications for the Chinese students.So, more money might come from China. How many Indian…
Let us make our education pursuit a creative endeavour!
Indian education has to accomplish range of roles to protect and promote India’s multiple languages Of course, retain the English language as an all India medium. Make India an education hub. The many ironies, contradictions and anomalies of Indian education are there and it is for the genius to resolve issues and draw up a…
Why democratic behaviour not yet a universal norm?
New-type dictators, autocrats and authoritarians still abound! The Global Democracy Index in 2017 places India from 32 to 42nd rank analysing 165 states. Norway and Sweden comes top. US ranked 21st! In India we have to practice ethical behaviour, truth, personal integrity and moral courage to make India a great democracy! Just recently there was…
What the NITI Aayog has achieved?
Yes, there are some radical new departures! One critical area is agriculture where the outdated old style repressive tenancy laws had hindered agri potential. NITI Aayog is now the only fresh feature of the Modi regime’s innovation, a think-tank with some of the bright minds working there. We can name names, some of them very…
The future of free media!
The idea of media freedom in a constrained atmosphere! Is India a truly a free country? A liberal and open society? Such questions are not asked. Not because those who are tempted to ask don’t ask, they are constrained. The other day when a national newspaper celebrated its 140th anniversary its publisher wrote and pointed…