What chance for rural India and rural media, in particular? Agriculture never makes news! And all news today, urban news, right? Unless there is some disaster like farmers’ suicides or some natural disasters! How sad and how our own priorities of living are corrupted. Corrupted by whom? Our own politics and economics is one thing….
Prime Minister’s development priorities!
Development has many meanings! Prioritize the priorities! Infant mortality data must be updated and made available for the public. Public debate must go for some modern day thinking on what constitutes development and economic growth. Almost simultaneously. There can’t be excuses for any delay for all the states. So, let us have trust in what…
How the economy is doing?
India to import wheat this year! Farmer communications must become farmer-friendly. Key agri economic data! Inadequate! Wheat imports may surge to a decade-high! Is the Indian economy moving? Modi asks party workers to embrace new thinking, ideas. Fine, these are the very words that are headlined in a leading newspaper by Prime Minister Mr.Modi at the…
Talking democracy!
Democracy in the world today Indian democracy faces challenges, yes! Liberalism is spreading across Europe, says an FT report. What about India? Is liberalism a word understood or appreciated in India? Here are some thoughts. Freedom and democracy are the two words that had been with us for ages, from Greece to our own times….
Teach philosophy and ethics at schools
Education jargon deteriorates progressively See what we speak often? Exams, marks, ranks and coaching centers etc. We speak often about schools, fees and shut-down of government primary schools, new and expensive private schools etc. There is a rise in selfishness, materialism, grabbing money and places through right or wrong means. Who are the culprits? The…
Reading through a book by the Nobel Prize winner – Svetlana Alexievich
A society must be bound by certain values Yes, what binds the Indian society today? Just now I am reading through a book by the Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich, born in Ukraine, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. The latest book, The Secondhand Time: The last of the Soviets (Random House, 2016)….
After the Assembly elections in 5 States!
Who lost and who gained? The Congress party affairs who can cut the Gordian knot? The much awaited Assembly elections in 5 States, Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry are now behind us. Modi’s two years in office needs some balanced comments. Such comments are missing in the Indian media, both pint and…
Modi completes 2 years in government.
What next? UP’s 2017 polls? Yes, economics attracts a few. But politics draws crowds. After the 5 Assembly polls gave the Congress much heart-burn and more crisis-ridden situation for the party, the other Opposition parties, mostly state level ones have started focusing on the next big battle. That is the UP’s 2017 elections which will…