Apple iPad has brought the whole outside world into our living room! And that is the great luck of the time we live through, it seems. A little small Syrian girl falls at the feet of the great Christian father and cries, rather loudly that viewers like us are deeply moved and in fact many…
Music and Education!
Arts, culture, music and cinema Culture is a complex word and concept. Modern culture basically means Western European culture Modern culture as it evolved in the late 18th and early 19th century, industrialized England. What the thinkers, writers, poets and critics led by Mathew Arnold is what I take here as examples. Arnold’s three classes,…
Agriculture agitates the policy makers!
Agriculture’s political priority now the focus! See the budgets of the government! The Centre has taken the bold step to come out with a budget that makes bold promises. Agriculture spending will top the sectoral allocations. What was once considered to be an urban party of traders and small businessmen and shop-keepers, the BJP now…
Bank defaulters! That is wilful defaulters!
May the tribe grow? Or, when you will act and do justice? Mr.Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister, might not have imagined in the wildest of his dreams that a set of intractable problems, corruption, black money and also unpaid huge bank loans by the high and mighty, besides his unfulfilled promises of getting the black…
Farmers gather at Jantar Mantar!
They would start roaring more in the coming days! To protest on their grievances. All budgets focused on farmers! The Central and the states’ budgets! Why? Is it because the government care for farmers? How many farmers committed suicides, you know? No budget, Central or the states, in particular, the Maharashtra and the Karnataka budgets talk…
Nationalism debate
There is a past history! The current controversy on what is nationalism and patriotism is taking communal overtones. There is a history to the rise of nationalism in the modern world. The First World War (1914-1919) sharpened nationalism with the fall of Ottoman Empire and the birth of new nations. The second war, again, led…
Ethics Committees of the Indian Parliament
Both in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to meet They would probe the ethics and the conduct of MPs The power of the press and public opinion can help the Parliamentary committees to do a great job. You see ethics is heavy word. Its meaning and significance can’t be explained in simple journalistic style….
Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine
A successful debut Indian poet would be deported. Is he one among the 40,000 skilled Indian workers? New UK immigrations rules to deport 40,000 Indians Skilled Indian workers to be sent home! See the irony of the Indo-British Empire and its twists and turns. Indian skilled workers range over a wider field of human skills….