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Education’s unfinished agenda! »
Middle In equality? Poverty? Or, denial of freedoms?
You can’t have everything in life, can you? Life doesn’t offer you too many choices, does it? Have you ever thought of these questions, do you? Yes, there is too much poverty in the world, in India! There is too much inequality, [...]
What I believe »
Old religion, new religion, god, science
How our secular beliefs are to be defined?
A survey of latest intellectual developments in various branches of sciences and knowledge
Religion is still a force as well as a taboo! Religion is a subject to which every thinking person has to return one day or other.In India, religion is a strong [...]
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan when he gave the first lectures at Kolkatta University »
Many of the great philosophers like, say Bertrand Russell and here in India Dr.S.Radhakrishnan have written much and created vast readership. I have read them in great, extensive ways. Russell is yes, quite brilliant, he wrote so clearly that won him vast readership, even today he is selling well. Karl Poppar says, in his autobiography, [...]
Jean - Paul Sartre »
A great French writer philosopher
1964 on October 22, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, but he declined it. In his novels, essays, and palys, Sartre advanced the philosophy of existentialism, arguing that each individual must create meaning for his or her own life, because life itself had no innate meaning. Sartre studied [...]
Exam-driven schools, Schoolheads show Hostility to new knowledge! To outside knowledge! »
Over- schooling is killing students and teachers!
Bureaucratisation of school education had reached its limit in India.So too the minds of students,teachers and parents in the unshakeable government fixed school texts,exams etc.
The other day we visited a well-established school in a district suburb.There was also a National Award won Headmaster in the car.When we wanted to [...]
Denial of freedoms by democratically elected leaders! »
Police States in today’s India!
A people can be traumatized by the fear of the state. Even now in states like Tamil Nadu under the Dravidian ideology, Shivsena in Maharashtra and also under Lalu in Bihar the “democratically-elected leaders have turned dictators by more subtle and pernicious methods.
An awe and a fear of the leader as [...]
