How US textbooks distort India? »
American elementary and secondary schools show India in a bad light!
USA is home to some strong 80,000 odd Indian students, some 20 lakh well-earning Indian families. Every other American worker or an expert must know how the Indian brainpower moves some of the biggest American enterpprises. So, the current negative perceptions of Indians taught in [...]
Arjun Singh must go! He messed up higher education! »
What is a political reality is now entangled in a complex judicial web!
It is time Mr.Arjun Singh, the HRD, minister makes way for a new comer!
Indian education caught in a man-made crisis!
Indian education system is something gigantic by world standards. It caters to a billion population. India is also a young country. That means education [...]
Higher education is in crisis and confusion! »
Our morale is so low!
Yes, we are now in the midst of a terrible crisis and confusion in our higher education sector. On the one side is the government with no plan. On the other is the new breed of education exploiters who fleece the poor and the middle classes! Now come the foreign education [...]
Public Schools? Where are they? What use they have? »
Do they produce leaders? Not anymore!
With all pretensions of a public school education, the neavou riche and the old families too stick to an ever-constant Indian prototype. The students are all driven by the predominant middle class aspirations of IIT/IMM/competitive education. The new generation Marwari/Punjabi parents might opt for a family business. Even here the [...]
Art of conversation: alive or declining? »
Our personal cultures improving?
Why our leaders don’t talk clearly, engage the people? President and the Prime Minister don’t inspire the people!
There was this delightful piece in the Economist, December 23rd, 2006 issue. It was on the art of conversation. As usual it was written with verve and wit.
What it says? The art of conversation is [...]
Science Education - Evolution is now day-to-day news! »
Exciting things are happening in evolution research. Evolution of man is not simply to be explained, in my humble opinion, in biological sense alone. I was glad to read a latest survey of the evolution in the December issue of The Economist magazine (December 24th 2005). The survey titled “The Proper Study of Mankind” covers [...]
An open letter to the Prime Minister of India »
“Tagore’s University in progressive decline!”
“Please do something to save the institution!”
Visiting Calcutta and Santiniketan After 20 long years!
The plane approaches Dum Dum almost without any sign of the great city down below. Once you are out of the airport, you notice again all the relics of a bygone era, the dust-laden grime, the red brick [...]
Education? The competitive pressures, not silly principles! »
Yes, that makes for elite education in Delhi!
Our School Curriculum must be raised to international standards. Reading India’s English language papers, we mean at least some of the widely read ones by the elite, could be quite disheartening!
Delhi society, the very core of the power wielders, seems very brutal and ruthless when it comes to [...]
Ranganadananda: I made him to speak at Oxford »
Swami Rangandananda, till now the president of the Ramakrishna Mission had passed away recently. Born in the Kerala village of Trikkur, near Thrissur in 1908,the swami had very impressive life, starting as a humble young boy to reach the top and emerge as a scholar, speaker and philosopher.Why I write about himhere is that I [...]
Sir A Lakshmanaswamy Mudaliar »
A long-serving Vice - Chancellor & a formidable educationist
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan is known for his unique distinctions. He served as vice-chancellor of Andhra university at Waltair for two terms and he recruited talented persons as university staff. He consulted far and wide, leading scientists in Europe when he searched for science staff.
He appointed some of [...]