Seriously, what is education? It is Enlightenment! You can debate the subject however you want. However you debate the subject of education and the various strands that flow from it, the central question is that an education for any country has certain common features. American education, for instance, defines the way the American people and…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Can India dream big enough?
Can we create an MIT-like institution in our life-time? Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi spoke, not long ago, at the Centenary celebrations of the Patna University, about creating a competition from among the top 20 universities for reaching the Centres of Excellence by allotting Rs.1, 000 crores to each one of them. That was a brilliant…
Is this all to the eradication of corruption? Under the Modi government? And only this much of expertise from the NIIT? Yes, this is a very timely book no doubt. It gets a collection of articles written by almost by all members who work at the NITI, the body that replaced the old Planning Commission…
There is much room for optimism!
Economic growth slows down? No, not at all! See, the World Bank’s projection for the next year! The very next day after the Prime Minister met the economists, came the World Bank projection of 7.3% for 2018 and 7.5 % in the next two years. You see the economists these days have become more timid,…
Agriculture in India is proving to be the most difficult area for the government to tackle the farmers, rural peoples’ unrest.
Yes, agriculture is a serious business and the government in the last three years has found that it is the agri sector, the rural sector that is proving elusive in its grand strategy of winning over people in spite of the over-all strategy of winning elections in almost all the states. Since the Modi government…
Honorary Doctorate for Mamata Banerjee?
Why not? After all, the person is a State’s Chief Minister! Mamata Banerjee, affectionately and popularly called Didi, by any stretch of imagination, is a remarkable person. She is a woman leader of exceptional merit, a proven clean leader in a society and politics that is unfortunately a notoriously corrupt. We live at a time…
Chandrababu Naidu is creating a new AP!
That shows in the physical changes and the mental outlook of the Andhra people! Andhra Pradesh, with all our admiration for the veteran leader Mr.Chandrababu Naidu and his new team of ministers, is still the most backward state among the Southern Indian states. That shows when you drive through the state. Specially, Chittoor district is…
Take agriculture seriously!
Electoral defeat or setback is not the time for agriculture policy making! It must be done independently! Only when you have a firm faith or a vision of the largest number of people engaged in an activity that holds critical role in the creation of sustainable wealth and distribution of the same for the largest …