What is common and what is uncommon? Higher education in India can’t be dictated by middle class mania like merit only. We have to design a higher education system that shape and strengthens the Indian social and cultural fabric and also enriches life of the common man with a unique Indian personality. With traditions and…
Shocking but true!
The agri ministry is lethargic in spending its allocated budget! It has spent only 28% of its budgetary estimates against a target of 33% How many in the country, especially farmers know of the pathetic state of affairs in the key ministry that holds them to ransom with all its current miseries of suicides, debts…
Reforming education system in India
How to minimize commercialization and corrupt practices in Indian education? Smriti Irani on education reform in India Global Scholars to teach in Indian Universities But how serious is the new government? We are all these months, some 16-17 months, been hearing about some other priorities in education. Right or wrong? We heard that Sanskrit will…
Letter to Makhan Lal Fotedar
Dear Sri Fotedarji, This letter might surprise you for you don’t know me but I know you! I used to see you years ago whenever I came to see Indiraji. This was many years ago. Anyway, just now I read your book, Chinar Leave which makes for interesting reading. I used to work at the…
Prime Minister Modi has done well so far!
Confidence high, hopes positive! But the atmosphere is vitiated by contradictory forces from within the ruling alliance Lack of a coherent modern ideology leads to lawlessness, violence and criminality in public behaviour on the part of various levels of leaders? The PM could do more, especially at the grass-roots and at the many institutional levels!…
The many weaknesses of the Indian agricultural system!
First, the farmers’ suicides hit the new government. Even as we write there is a young farmer had committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh in Prakasam district, ironically when the Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi was on the AP soil laying he bhoomi puja for the new state capital. The CM and other state heavyweights are all…
S.M.Krishna seeks audience with Sonia Gandhi?
Congress affairs: what is there to talk in secret? Congress crisis needs to be debated openly and in great transparency! Congress government in Karnataka is not in the best of performing states! See the issues that are causing concern to the general public. First, Karnataka is one of the few states in the country under…
Svetlana Alexivich, Tunisian Quartet wins Nobel Prizes
Celebrating Democracy? Yes, but then is Indian democracy winning? This year’s Nobel Prizes for Literature and Peace! They are to vindicate democracy and democratic values in the modern times. So, every country calling itself democracy or a modern nation has to ask some tough questions.In India we seem to take pride in our democracy. Fine….