This thought flashed through my mind like a lightening rod yesterday when I saw the video of a BBC debate in the Westminster Hall in London The subject of the debate in which two heavyweights participated was Ancient Athens vs. Ancient Rome! Who were the participants? Mr. Boris Johnson, currently the British foreign minister in…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
2G-Scam, Scandal or Shame?
A Great Shame! And see who are all claiming victory? The most revered former Prime Minister! All the loud-mouthed Congress spokesmen! And lo! All the publically perceived corrupt faces! Yes, this is India where the judicial system looks a laughing stock! We don’t know how to make sense of the 2-G verdict. Fortunately, this is…
We need a new liberal and open society education system and values
Mere academic discussion alone won’t transform Indian education! We need a broad social and political ideology! Those opens up and integrate into a new class-based liberal society where the upper class, the middle class and the rest of the classes feel the society opened up and accommodate all citizens as enjoying equal rights and opportunities…
What makes news in education nowadays?
It is fairly predictable Yes, it is! Any negative news is only news! Other than negative news is no news This is the rule of the so many TV news channels! Why education only! It is also true for many of our other concerns! The Israeli Prime Minister is on a state visit to India,…
Educators: how much they must be educated?
No need for any education? Is it only the entrepreneurial instinct that matter? Or, the educators must be the most enlightened people? In new ideas and articulations? Decide in whatever fashion you want! Here are certain new ideas and new ideological convictions! That could give the Indian context, the present times and the challenges we…
Let us take agriculture seriously!
After all, we are one of the three big agriculture nations! But what is happening in agriculture policy making today? How much attention we give to agriculture And the people depending upon it? The recent WTO ministerial meeting in the distant Brazil ended after disappointing those countries who wanted to improve their trading gains by…
This is liberal education for Indians!
The London Crown Court proceedings on Vijay Mallya! The British media hasn’t given a damn about what is going on in the British courts, neither of the proceedings against Vijay Mallya nor the Indian media, except for the short sensationalism the persona of Mallya invites As for a deeper and serious study of how India…
Culture, the most potent power, you know!
Leonardo Da Vinci, By Walter Issacson, pages 599, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2017 Culture can over-ride many other determinants of how a country or people are judged. So, culture’s power of impacting countries and societies need to be understood and reiterated. Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, just the two from Italy to have made the…