Congress Party “Internal party reforms urgently needed”
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The world is now a better educated place »
Thanks to technological revolutions and tools
Every country has its own education traditions and cultures
Dominant cultures dominate!
Education in the New Year? What Indian education is like?
Have we made progress in the education front?
Yes, India has made a lot of progress in education. The New Year must give us some new ideas and new beliefs.
Education is now [...]
Reliving the 1989 years of Europe! »
Just now, I have come back from a visit to Cochin in Kerala where I visited the famous Jewish Synagogue. Cochin Synagogue? Heard of it?
It is a heart warming and even at times when you read the pictures on the walls displayed for visitors, heart-rending experience.
I have been there more than once, once with my [...]
This month of school exam results/IIT entrance test results! »
This middle class obsession must be moderated!
Education is all about finding out about own personality and developing the same!
Let the government introduce a one year of national social service!
A gap year before students enter college would make a great deal of change in the Indian education.
Indian education has done much good for the country and [...]
Indian education must introduce a year of social service! »
On the lines of the American Peace Corps!
This magazine in its original avatar was founded by an American Peace Corps volunteer!
It was meant to be a newsletter of a rural school founded by me way back in the year 1962 and it evolved over the years in its present form.
Just now I read about the [...]
Celebrating Charles Darwin’s bicentenary? »
What our schools and universities teach in the sciences?
This is the year of Charles Darwin’s 200th year anniversary. February 12, 2009, was Darwin’s 200th birthday. And the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species falls this autumn.
There are a spate of articles and even books on Charles Darwin, about his theory and also much about [...]
What a fall! What a cruel joke! »
Where our universities are going?
Prime Minister’s hopelessness!
He calls industry captains to give the government creative ideas!
The Indian government has become almost non-functional! If that is a harsh expression, then, readers can give us some other version of the present hopelessness that marks the Indian higher education scenario.
Prime Minister is the very picture of hopelessness. Or, [...]
Mass education? Only Governments can do! »
Class education? Yes, only society decides!
Education is an all-time favourite topic.
” Education for all” is a Millennium Development Goad! Yes, there is a terrific effort towards this noble goal. Realistically speaking, the 11th Plan is spending Rs.34,000 crores for education. A big jump! In the 10th Plan, the percentage of education allocation was just 7.7 [...]
Education’s job is not to produce robots, right? »
Not to produce manpower for IT companies!
Education’s goals are noble, to produce men and women of character, citizens and give them identity etc!
There is this trend today. The rather dominant and because it comes from people who made it good in making huge money, in IT and that is why the particular view is getting [...]
Is India going to be a unique nuclear power? »
We will show leadership to the world?
Is only India talking the nuclear truth? Other nations, less than perfect?
Can the Indian people trust only Manmohan Singh and Pranab Mukerjee?
What are the Prime Minister’s true beliefs on the nuclear deal?
Yes, India seems to be pretending a lot. We seem to be innocent and at the same time [...]
Oxford academic programme for India’s development? »
And a Chinese scholar who hasn’t visited India to lead the research team?
Oxford University is doing some innovative programmes on India, it seems. We should wlecome it in India for such innovative programmes, planned and run from far off, from a vantage academic background must surely give us, in India in particular some rare insights.
First, [...]
