Indian youngsters pay heavily for our own inactionMass higher education has lowered standards!This has led to education as the “For Profit education industry growth” only! SAT-the great game! A blessing or a curse? Big money plays a bigger scam! Is this a great train robbery or a great training robbery? Education has become a great…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
State of Indian education
We have to wait for an opportune time for things to change for the better Education budget is now 3.71%, dipped from 6.15% of the Union Budgetbetween 2014 and 2017.Not just funds can improve education.Education can be improved only if we search for intellectual debate and freedom of expression for the and public intellectuals.Education has…
Who can reform Indian education and reset Indian education goals?
This seems to be an ideal world. The one we live in is the bestof all possible worlds, right? So, educators have a duty and also a right to ask questions. Prof. Sukanta Chaudhuri, Professor Emeritus of Jadavpur University, Kolkatta has written a thoughtful piece in the Economic Times of 6thFebruary, 2020. We like to…
How big countries govern in the world?
India, Russia and China’s different political cultures? The outbreak of Corona virus in China had brought with it so many questions about how countries run their affairs. In today’s The Hindu (Feb, 17, 2020) there is an elaborate write-up on how the media is tightly controlled in China and how that had led to such…
The credibility of the Indian media is poor!
Monopolies in media ownership would only distort democratic rights of the people!We read that in India there is an incredible 400 number of TV news channels! And there are also fundamental questions like the concentration of ownership in one or two monopoly owners! These monopoly owners are also, as in India right now, happen to…
US President’s visit to India
Any trade deal with USA should secureIndia’s agri goal of food self sufficiency! As big agricultural economies, be it India, China and the USA, we can’t manage world economy without trade. More so the agricultural trade. So, India has to have a trade negotiation with America whose agricultural economy too needs a trade deal. But…
What chance for optimism in agriculture?
In a situation when we find the Indian agriculture in debts and droughts and floods!Why, even you can add litigation and much else! This year’s Christmas double issues of the internationally known magazine, The Economist, has written its major editorial on Optimism vs. Pessimism. The widely read intellectual elite journal has highlighted the radical changes…
What the New Year holds for the world? And for India?
Whom to look for advice and wisdom? The past year has gone. The New Year, 2020, is very much on us. Also, the New Year is once more, full of hopes and lot of trepidations. The US onslaught on Iran has complicated international affairs and has many other issues of urgency, not only on Indian…