It is fairly predictable Yes, it is! Any negative news is only news! Other than negative news is no news This is the rule of the so many TV news channels! Why education only! It is also true for many of our other concerns! The Israeli Prime Minister is on a state visit to India,…
Educators: how much they must be educated?
No need for any education? Is it only the entrepreneurial instinct that matter? Or, the educators must be the most enlightened people? In new ideas and articulations? Decide in whatever fashion you want! Here are certain new ideas and new ideological convictions! That could give the Indian context, the present times and the challenges we…
Let us take agriculture seriously!
After all, we are one of the three big agriculture nations! But what is happening in agriculture policy making today? How much attention we give to agriculture And the people depending upon it? The recent WTO ministerial meeting in the distant Brazil ended after disappointing those countries who wanted to improve their trading gains by…
This is liberal education for Indians!
The London Crown Court proceedings on Vijay Mallya! The British media hasn’t given a damn about what is going on in the British courts, neither of the proceedings against Vijay Mallya nor the Indian media, except for the short sensationalism the persona of Mallya invites As for a deeper and serious study of how India…
Culture, the most potent power, you know!
Leonardo Da Vinci, By Walter Issacson, pages 599, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2017 Culture can over-ride many other determinants of how a country or people are judged. So, culture’s power of impacting countries and societies need to be understood and reiterated. Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, just the two from Italy to have made the…
Educators: how much they must be educated?
No need for any education? Is it only the entrepreneurial instinct that matter? Or, the educators must be the most enlightened people? In new ideas and articulations! Decide in whatever fashion you want! Here are certain new ideas and new ideological convictions that could give the Indian context, the present times and the challenges we…
Rahul Gandhi’s Coronation
A Play Acting? Yes, the whole affair looked like a less than serious politics. All the actors in this are well-rehearsed and well-prepared for the day! Also, they all looked very innocent (or controlled their own ability to look artificially serious!) and yet very sensitive to the subject of effecting a political succession in an…
See humanity in a new light!
This is the message from the new Abu Dhabi museum! Look at Abu Dhabi universal new museum! There are lessons for India here! What makes nations big and small? Not their geography or the population or its military power, it is a new set of universal values, new set of public conduct and also the…