Education in an uncertain world Education for Enlightenment! Please understand one and all! Yes, Indian education today is being driven by the sheer mindless market forces! Everyday, we are flooded with full-page newspaper ads claiming this or that targets of first rankers or other exams. But do you know the world outside? There is resistance…
Where are the intellectuals in India?
Do the elite society play any notable role in the public life of India? In the Western societies, including USA and Western Europe, in France and other liberal democracies there are who are commonly called public intellectuals. They are either academics or even philosophers or literary figures who speak out openly for the common public…
Where are the education thinkers, policy makers, wise men and women?
The nitty-gritty of education! Yes, education for what? Skills, jobs or migration? Indian education, in our view, is in deep crisis! No one in authority has a clue where our education is heading! It is heading simply in the way market forces to push education pursuits. The rising middle class, not the old middle class…
Travelling through the Indian states!
The South vs. the North! Some general observations! Too much of political news is not good for any society. More so, in India where we see some of the curious scenarios. One is more about party politics and that too after the 2014 elections there is too much distortion of certain issues of society. So…
The Karnataka Assembly election verdict!
Lessons learnt and unlearnt! A new political horizon seems opening in India at the moment. It is the outcome of the election verdict and the immediate developments.! The Karnataka Assembly election results surprised everyone concerned. There are many stake-holders, so to say. Of course it is another matter that stake -holders also had their own…
K.C.Chandrashekhar Rao
Telangana Chief Minister’s revolutionary farm reforms! Let us congratulate the hon’ble Chief Minister! Agriculture is never easy. It is a tough field. It requires tonnes of nerves and unlimited will power. For politicians lately, agriculture has become a plaything. How many Chief Ministers, the ambitious and the cunning ones, specially have promised instant farm loan…
Mixed signals about the future of the country and our own democracy
Public perceptions and the public opinion! The Prime Minister completes four years in office. The Prime Minister’s office (the PMO) is perhaps the most powerful political office under our Constitution. Our laws are also very different from those of the US government and the US Constitutional practices. See there the role of the law officers….
Agriculture and rural India has no media focus!
So, the problems of farmers and villages continue to suffer We are glad to see the Prime Minister’s visit to the Left-Wing Extremists-affected Chhattisgarh districts is very inspiring and timely. Why not the much talked about technology-enabled schemes, the rural BPO programmes take off in such remote villages? Very fine. We congratulate the PM and…