This is what happened to the Tatas now! Ratan Tata trips and his image battered! Media misconduct and unethical practices Radia telephone tapes revelations! Ratan Tata is the most powerful industrialist of India. He controls a vast empire and his group is claimed to spend about Rs.600-Rs700 crores on advertisement and publicity. So, we can…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Cuncum climate change convention
Climate change now critical for agriculture, food and much else Compromise, optimism and middle ground are the critical words and the way to the next phase of the agenda. Climate change convention, simply called Cancum, the Mexican city, has produced something positive? We must hope so for such a high profile UN meet (UNFCCC) won’t…
Secondary education
Why we need idealist schools/experimental schools? Just now I was going through an old review article, written by A.J.Ayer, the reputed Oxford philosopher in an old issue of the Encounter, and then edited by the poet Stephen Spender. I was an old-time admirer of Spender in those times and also an ardent reader of the…
A Watergate-type crisis emerging?
A mid-term crisis or a mid-term poll syndrome? Ministers don’t perform and more scandals strike! It looked when the UPA-II was formed it was a sort of some improvement over the previous UPA_I. For one thing, some really corrupt ministers from the allies were kept out of the ministry and the DMK, even then created…
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh tied themselves in so many knots!
Indian polity is an unexpected crisis! Parliament adjourns without transacting any business The Congress remains adamant Opposition’s demand for JPC justified? Parliament adjourned after three weeks without functioning. Now, the situation is developing towards a crisis of unpredictable nature. The Supreme Court is almost directing the government on several matters. This is not good at…
Scams and Scandals!
Agriculture and much of development issues It is all about dispensing natural resources! We, in India, in particular have to a stage where many issues have taken critical shapes. Take the very latest scams and scandals. What they about? They are about, in a more sense of gravita, ethics and equity or justice in the…
Beware of foreign writers and foreign journalists writing on India
Or more dangerously on Hinduism! I hesitate to write on Hinduism! Hindutva is one reason! Foreign writers, foreign journalists another hindrance! There was this news item in the newspapers recently. A new book has been published in New Delhi and that has this shocking title: Hindutva, Sex and Adventure. Why such a title? The author…
No press freedom, only press fear of the governments!
What the School Journal’s mission is like? It will give an alternative to the current fear and despondency of many journals and newspapers! We have been publishing the School Journal for almost by now some 45 years, if you take the year 1965 as the year of launching our very modest school newsletter. This was…