As a journal of education and by extension we include culture and the arts. This also extends our responsibility of the very spectrum of the India’s many languages that are now reportedly facing extinction. The recent reports from expert bodies also names some of the reportedly 40 odd tribal languages, from the Nilgiris hills; we…
How to reduce the exam burden on the 10th and 12th Std students?
Prakash Javadekar’s invitation! The hon’ble HRD minister Mr.Prakash Javadekar has asked people and experts and parents for suggestions as to how to reduce the burden on the 10th and the 12th standard exams which have become a scandal in India. In no other country the bureaucratic hold on the administration of education had reached such…
Education is the mirror to society and politics? It seems to!
Seriously, what is education? It is Enlightenment! You can debate the subject however you want. However you debate the subject of education and the various strands that flow from it, the central question is that an education for any country has certain common features. American education, for instance, defines the way the American people and…
Can India dream big enough?
Can we create an MIT-like institution in our life-time? Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi spoke, not long ago, at the Centenary celebrations of the Patna University, about creating a competition from among the top 20 universities for reaching the Centres of Excellence by allotting Rs.1, 000 crores to each one of them. That was a brilliant…
Is this all to the eradication of corruption? Under the Modi government? And only this much of expertise from the NIIT? Yes, this is a very timely book no doubt. It gets a collection of articles written by almost by all members who work at the NITI, the body that replaced the old Planning Commission…
There is much room for optimism!
Economic growth slows down? No, not at all! See, the World Bank’s projection for the next year! The very next day after the Prime Minister met the economists, came the World Bank projection of 7.3% for 2018 and 7.5 % in the next two years. You see the economists these days have become more timid,…
Agriculture in India is proving to be the most difficult area for the government to tackle the farmers, rural peoples’ unrest.
Yes, agriculture is a serious business and the government in the last three years has found that it is the agri sector, the rural sector that is proving elusive in its grand strategy of winning over people in spite of the over-all strategy of winning elections in almost all the states. Since the Modi government…
Honorary Doctorate for Mamata Banerjee?
Why not? After all, the person is a State’s Chief Minister! Mamata Banerjee, affectionately and popularly called Didi, by any stretch of imagination, is a remarkable person. She is a woman leader of exceptional merit, a proven clean leader in a society and politics that is unfortunately a notoriously corrupt. We live at a time…