Life after the Nobel Prize Or, an afternoon at Santiniketan! Why this title! The other day I was speaking to my long-time friend in Santiniketan. What can you do when you are caught up in a remote village where you don’t have Internet Broadband connectivity. Accustomed to live in hightech Bangalore where latest technological gadgets…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
How I spoke at the Oxford Debating Society?
One of the Oxford’s enduring institutions is the Oxford Union. It had produced leaders who went on to build an Empire, fight the World Wars, establish international standards in all walks of life. Here is how I was able to fulfill my life’s ambition of participating in this august body. I a way, I imagined…
Men in government
They talk of rural India. We listen! This government is seen progressively as groping in the dark for policies. To tackle several important segment of issues. one is rural India. Agriculture and rural India’s development are interlinked. So too, the many new institutions, Panchayat Raj in particular for rural India’s transformation. So, what have we…
Two big biographies : Winston Churchill, Lord Keynes
Time has come to call the British bluff. The “New Britain” is seen by British people themselves as a nation given to much war-mongering on the part of Tony Blair who imagines himself a second Winston Churchill! More war interventions, more name and fame for Britain. I had read the two biographies of two great…
The use of economics and economists
Economics alone doesn’t save a government Economists in India had enjoyed periods of much recognition and also much neglect. In Independent India, under Nehru, economists came to much public notice. P.C.Mahalanobis, V.K.R.V. Rao and many others, including the foreign economists of the calibre of Nicholas Kaldor and Tan Tinbergen, Oscar Lange (Communist economist) were more…
Even educated Indians don’t bother to know the world!
So,what hopes for our leaders to take India forward? Even highly educated Indians, I mean those with foreign education qualifications and training don’t seem to know how the world is moving forward. Those Indians with foreign qualifications, with MBAs, are employed in corporate world. They are either owner entrepreneurs or employed by businessmen at high…
Engineering education in Karnataka
Chief Minister’s expeditious steps solve tricky problems No day passes in Karnataka without the engineering colleges hitting the front page news headlines!Such is the top priority for engineering education in the state.Bangalore is setting the agenda for top quality engineering graduates. The IT companies are now desparately in search of high quality talent.Infosys,as the news…
Planning Commission Activities
Should the government engage foreign consultants? When the government reconstituted the Planning Commission, we wrote the Commission be headed by some practical politician of repute. There are very practical reasons for making these suggestions. The previous Vajpayee government, knowingly or unknowingly nominated many lightweights, some plainly unworthy, some plain party enthusiasts. So, the Planning Commission…