So, what future for rural India? Imaginative transition from rural to urban India calls for new talents, imagination, and experience! The Nobel Prize for Economics, this year! This has gone to predict the growth of cities! What does that mean for the future of agriculture and farming as an occupation? This year’s Nobel Prize has…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
For the cause of India!
I was nurtured by Pandit Nehru! I have all the credibility to certify genuine leaders and Congressmen! Just now I have read through a book titled, “The 100 best speeches of the pre-Independence India” edited by one D.C.Sharma(Rupa),2007. The book was a comeback for me. I went through the momentous years from the day of…
L.K.Advani, leader of Opposition
Shouldn’t use intemperate language! Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was in the USA and he met President George Bush at the White House. For some reasons, the Indian Prime Minister, who is otherwise always very careful about his language lost control or otherwise and blushed before the American President. In a spontaneous outburst he said to…
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…
A headmaster as a role model
Or a life in the wilderness? Yes, education today has become a consumer product and services. Everyone seeks education, the poor as well as the not so poor. Each segment of the society has its own views, its own priorities for seeking education. So, education has no core meaning, it had lost all meanings. For…
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…
My interest in the fine arts continues and I am also learning about the new developments.
Of course, I am no longer as interested in the fine arts as I used to be. Time moves on and we also move on. Time was when I was a student at Santiniketan and though I went there to study other academic subjects, Santiniketan immediately drew me into the many seasonal festivals for each…
McKinsey Consultants say
Organised retail is going to change the fortunes of farmers! Yes, organised retail can ensure better prices for farm products, say the leading consultancy. McKinsey is a big name in consulting. But consulting in agriculture is almost nil. We have our own in-house consultancy (Vadamalai Consultancy Services-VCS) and we know from our experience that in…