Congress Party “Internal party reforms urgently needed”
Barack Obama“Will Obamaism catch on with the Indian politics?”
Budget allocations for education and health : Corporate hospitals! »
Tele-medicine should reach India’s remote areas. The budget makes generous allocations for education. But not enough for health. The allocations in the budget for national rural health mission allots just less than Rs. 2,000 more ( from Rs.8,420 crore to Rs.10,280 crore).
We have a non-speaking Prime Minister and an over-talking Finance Minister.It seems that we [...]
Update the school standards! »
International Baccalaureate? IGCSE?
Public Schools and established schools must go for them!
Indian schools need updating!Indian schools must become international standard schools. There is an Indian Public Schools Conference organisation.Not much is heard of its activities, perhaps its activities are not worth reporting in the press or worthy of public attention. It is time [...]
Amartya Sen on rural migration »
Where too many theories don’t work!
Amartya Sen was in India recently and he was at his usual best: brilliant, insightful and oh, too many stimulating words and suggestions. So too another Nobel Prize economist, the American Joseph Stiglitz too was in India and he too was so brilliant and made very many insightful points. He [...]
Pawar calls the State Agri ministers meeting »
The new national policy is too long a statement and short on realistic issues! Agriculture can thrive only in a growing economy! More industrialisation, urbanisation and services sector can only make agriculture market-driven and more efficient!
Who says agriculture can grow only when there is more concentration on agriculture. Yes, it seems ironic that those states [...]
Sharad Pawar’s term as Agri Minister : How it would be judged? »
There was this innocent news item. It said “Sharad Pawar has to take greater interest in the cricket game and think beyond the millions and billions involved, the money, after all the all of us are contributing”(Asian Age). Yes, Pawar is more known for the game than for the game of politics and in particular [...]
Mamata Banerjee’s political violence and vandalaism! »
Tatas car project a prestigious issue for the West Bengal government
Mamata Banerjee is variously called, the stormy petral, Didi and the various names, both complementary and also negative. Somehow, the Trinamul Congress leader is known for her unpredictability and her party is also known for its changing political alliances. Sonia Gandhi tried and failed and [...]
What is missing? An economic vision, a cohesive economic philosophy! »
Our economic reforms must have a cohesive economic philosophy
The government machinery must act pro-actively to solve the many problems
We seem to be living through a very strange phase of our national life. We have leaders, in high offices and others as party leaders. Yet, we seem to be witnessing more routine attendance to offices, as [...]
The political and economic agendas of parties »
The Congress and the CPM have a long history and tradition.
The BJP and the chauvinistic, casteist parties thrive more on populist agendas
The easy part is the political agenda! The difficult part is the economic agenda. Political agenda has its noble ideals as well as some anti-modern, anti-historical, narrow, and chauvinistic and even sometimes(or, mostly these [...]
Living through cynical times! »
Javed Akhtar on society’s values! Society’s education perceptions and priorities
After going through the BJP education minister days it seems a springtime under Mr.Arjun Singh, the new HRD minister.
But poor Mr.Singh! Can he deliver on the promises of the government? We mean the education for all and the midday meals targets? We [...]
Hostility to new knowledge! To outside knowledge! »
Exam-driven schools, Schoolheads showOver- 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 [...]
