Prof.Krishna Kumar is a retired Delhi university professor of education. He is currently the Arjun Singh nominee as the Director of National Council for Education(NCERT). He along with Prof.Yashpal are charged with revamping the School Curriculum. Both are eminently suited to the job. Let us hope they succeed where others, other angels and devils failed!…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
US-bound Indians growing!
Manhattan Indians and ‘illegal Indian aliens’! We read so often about tapping the talents ofIndians living in America.Dr.Manmohan Singh, our Prime Minister had in his wisdom constituted one more Commission, this time, it is Knowledge Commission! High sounding? Yes, it is! What is it by the way? No one knows for sure. It was, as…
An open letter to the Chairman, SBI
India’s big bank must standardise agri credit lending practices State Bank of India (SBI) is a great bank. Its pedigree is very impressive, almost as old as the start of the East India Company. It was born on March 27, 1806. Started as the Bank of Calcutta for the company officials. One legend is that…
Economics at Oxford
Studied economics, didn’t become an economist ! I became an entrepreneur! Yes, it is ironical that I studied economics both at Santiniketan and Oxford and yet I didn’t become an economist! Instead I had always wanted to become an entrepreneur, wanted to have my own independence, I wanted money, lots of money and do a…
Blackout of rural reality!
Agri marketing will take care of itself. If rural infrastructure projects speed up! There were two farmers suicides in the month of July. The two were in Karnataka. One in Tumkur district and another in Gulbarga district. The Tumkur farmers committed suicide by hanging himself in his field and the causes are the same ones…
Are we all conspirators against farmers?
Farmers seem to live in blissful ignorace! The government condemns farmers to exist in ignorance and isolation. Agriculture : who cares? Agriculture is never headline news! Why? It doesn’t excite the educated persons, mostly they live in cities. We don’t seem to get any positive information about what the many development agencies are doing for…
Economics – Now an American discipline!
When I studied economics in the late Fifties economics was essentially an English discipline. It is no more! There are not many students now to study economics or do PhDs! It is now more an American discipline. In India economics still has some glamour but things are changing very fast here too. Economics doesn’t give…
Nostalgia for the old Bangalore!
Nijalingappa, Ramakrishna Hegde, Deve Gowda Savitri Devi, P.Lankesh, Rajiv Tharanath Ravi Kirloskar, T.A.Pai, Sunder Ram Shetty, Shankar Hegde, Narayanamurty There is in Bangalore a core group of people who would do anything in their power to care for the old Bangalore and its ethos. Bangalore evokes such a deeply-felt nostalgia. There are so many reasons,…