Farmers agitate and come out on the roads and show their anger and helplessness! Of course, agriculture, as we say, is always a difficult sector. It has become more and more so simply because we tend to take the disorganised, inequity-ridden sector for granted. The very many antiquated land laws, from agricultural landownership to tenancy…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
New Education Strategy for 2022 meeting in Mussoorie
Education reforms not so easy and that calls for deep thought! Former President Pranab Mukherjee was in Nagpur the other day. That raised many eyebrows. For the right and wrong reasons! The guest speaker said that India’s identity is about tolerance. Fine, perhaps we would have said, Indian polity too should be known for its…
Farmer’s distress takes ugly turns!
In many states, 100 and odd farmers groups, on the roads! What prevents purposive actions and decisions? The Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken well and in an eloquent manner at Khekhda in Meerat on the occasion of inauguration of the 135 km Easter Peripheral Express way in Bagpat on the role of farmers in…
Macaulay’s children today
Education in an uncertain world Education for Enlightenment! Please understand one and all! Yes, Indian education today is being driven by the sheer mindless market forces! Everyday, we are flooded with full-page newspaper ads claiming this or that targets of first rankers or other exams. But do you know the world outside? There is resistance…
Where are the intellectuals in India?
Do the elite society play any notable role in the public life of India? In the Western societies, including USA and Western Europe, in France and other liberal democracies there are who are commonly called public intellectuals. They are either academics or even philosophers or literary figures who speak out openly for the common public…
Where are the education thinkers, policy makers, wise men and women?
The nitty-gritty of education! Yes, education for what? Skills, jobs or migration? Indian education, in our view, is in deep crisis! No one in authority has a clue where our education is heading! It is heading simply in the way market forces to push education pursuits. The rising middle class, not the old middle class…
Travelling through the Indian states!
The South vs. the North! Some general observations! Too much of political news is not good for any society. More so, in India where we see some of the curious scenarios. One is more about party politics and that too after the 2014 elections there is too much distortion of certain issues of society. So…
The Karnataka Assembly election verdict!
Lessons learnt and unlearnt! A new political horizon seems opening in India at the moment. It is the outcome of the election verdict and the immediate developments.! The Karnataka Assembly election results surprised everyone concerned. There are many stake-holders, so to say. Of course it is another matter that stake -holders also had their own…