Let us liberalise the private sector in school education to create new types of secondary education that gives Indian school’s system to promote more quality schools! Yes, this is how the senior most and much-respected civil servant, Rahul Khullar describes the Schools scenario in New Delhi. He has in effect pleaded for allowing the high-fee…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
The media industry, media freedoms!
Media industry doesn’t serve the vulnerable sections! Let alone farmers and the rural people! There is now a new media revolution, so much use of, so-called social media has changed the way people use the media industry consumption. The 2014 general elections saw the rise and use of social media and let us give the…
Education growth in India
Quantity, commercialisation and sheer money drives growth,also greedy money-seekers! Education Policy making is in Limbo! Higher education or any other stage of education is highly profitable! There is a very short introduction to education,universities and colleges before me. Great names have been here for ages.Yes,even if we leave out the old names, honorary names, Plato’s…
Indian agrarian crisis
The long-term is clear, not the short term! The 119 billionaires in India saw the rise of their wealth rising at Rs.200 crore a day! While 13.6 crore Indians who make up the bottom 10 per cent, have continued to languish in debts, continue to languish so since 2004. Readers and conscience keepers can deduce…
A new Coalition in 2019?
Very likely, it seems! Rahul in the race for PM? Very unlikely! The ruling leading lights shout: It is PM vs. chaos! Opposition unity, a shame! Political issues are getting hotter everyday. Election outcome in 2019 is the major guessing game. There is less and less of tolerance and Dissidence of any sort is not…
Governance failings led to Assembly election results
Agriculture distress is only one factor. The other factors are too many to narrate! A surprise of surprise is the latest move of certain courage on the part of the otherwise submissive bureaucracy to summon up courage, some 83 bureaucrats of high ranks, most of them ex-IAS officers, some really daring to write to the…
Let our schools do sciences this way!
Let them read the autobiography of the Indian Nobel Prize winner Venkat Ramakrishnan! The book’s name: Gene Machine – The race to decipher the secrets of the ribosome. The book reads like a thriller. The recent autobiography of Venkat Ramakrishnan, Venki to his friends and admirers, the latest winner of the Nobel Prize (for discovering…
Education must have an integrated concept of education, health and environment
Our education eco-system is superficially constructed. Only the skimpy part, the cash-exchange surface is cared about. Yes, what do we care for when we talk of education? It is the money part, the immediate cash-exchange we seem to care about. Otherwise, who cares for the children in their early years? As per the Global Nutrition…