Not as much as you imagined. How to correct deficiencies? Best ideas don’t come on their own. You have to push it from outside. As in politics, so in education. A brief news item on the use of computers in schools was shocking. In Karnataka, the most IT savvy state the use of computers, in…
Indian Public Schools
Do they live up to their ideals? Do they produce leaders for the betterment of the society? Just now I read in the Financial Times (London) that in the forthcoming London Mayoral election one of the contestants are a millionaire’s son and the other a bus conductor’s son. Zac Goldsmith, a millionaire environmental campaigner has…
Refugees’ crisis hits the world
What does this means for the world today? Tomorrow? Criticism on the US inaction or the controlled silence is enraging the entire world and it is likely soon to erupt in to even a wild cry and outrage. Already voices have come out calling this tragedy is a US making. The US invasion of Iraq,…
Doing business in India. Corruption is still the big problems.
Public perception and private realities! Indian states ranked in term of the ease of doing business Some surprises and shocking ground level realities The so-called advanced states, Maharashtra and TN with good track record in industrialisation find themselves dumped down in the rank with Gujarat retaining its number one rank with AP, the newly carved…
NITI AAYOG’s proposals to make transparent land laws?
It is time we draw investments in farming. It can be done only when we stop populist slogans in agriculture and also curb the corrupt politician’s hypocrisies! Vote-bank politics had ruined farming sector! The latest issue of The Economist magazine carries a special article on agriculture biodiversity (September, 2015). It makes an interesting reading and…
NITI Aayog formula for investments in farming!
Can Dr.Panagariya succeed where angels feared to tread? Can this government do the new proposals? Distress in agri sector continues! Multiple problems! Farmers’ suicides continue. Farmers’s debts mount. Farmers have No one is talking about. Where is the agriculture minister? Why he doesn’t talk of the many segments, like sugar and other commodities that are …
Refugee crisis in Europe
Obama’s image takes a beating! India’s image too at risk! The influx of refugees mostly from Syria and North Africa into Europe is reaching epidemic proportions. Harrowing pictures of people, women, children and men had touched the millions of global citizens. The really shocking pictures of three year old dead on the beach, the inhuman…
Education is always tied to jobs, right? What else?
Where is India heading? Let us settle with the ground-level reality! The rich, the middle class and the poor have their own education goals, please note it. In India, there is hypocrisy when it comes to education. Education today is seen more and more in terms of money and profits for the most efficient and…