Category: Education

That is what those committed to education must be worried about! We live in exciting times, right? Even the kids are playing with iPads! The very small ones talk of so many things, about dinosaurs, DNA and what not! We just now read about a news item on how pre-school kids read about fictional characters,…

Does it help to diversify our education processes? More regimentation of learning doesn’t help. Many creative processes are lost in any such regimentation. Instead of bureaucratic controls, decentralization, why even a degree of de-schooling could enrich the schooling process. Indian education history is long and very unique. The old Sanskrit education, the pathashalas and much…

Dreaming for global standard universities! An enlightened political push could lighten the flame! One of the big dreams of the BJP government is to set up 20 best universities. This has been mentioned many times and now, the HRD minister Hon’ble Prakash Javadekar, has said the same thing at the Bangalore-held Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. Fine!…

Government has some critical priorities to draw up! Prime Minister at the 104th Indian Science Congress! What he said at the session was very uninspiring! The Prime Minister of India as a tradition usually participates at the annual Indian Science Congress session. This year the Congress drew a reported 11,000 scientists and also six Nobel…

Rhodes scholarship Selection Committee Has to have a broader vision! Evolve a more equitable approach to spotting talents from diverse backgrounds! We need to create a bolder leadership base! Politics, public service, a more meaningful polity and recognition of values and moral commitments must become part of national traits! Five young Indian students win Rhodes…

What a new biography of Marx call tell us, written after this distance of time? Here are some rare insights about his life and work. What we don’t know about Karl Marx so far? A new biography of Karl Marx. Marx lived 65 years. His impact on the world has been so all parasites on…

How Britain didn’t understand Indian culture? Just by chance I looked at a weekly supplement of my favorite newspaper. It is all on Arts & Culture and carries two interview pages of leading cultural personages, classical dancers, musicians and theatre personalities. All of them engaged my thought for a while. All my favorites are here…

Guest Post By – Dr. Kaustav Bhattacharyya St.THOMAS SCHOOL ‘WE HAD BRITISH COUNCIL, WE HAD SHAKESPEARE….LEARNING ENGLISH IN KOLKATA’ For my generation who grew up in ‘Calcutta’ as opposed to Kolkata the city, had a certain sense of pride and belonging to the world of English ‘lettres’ using the word in the French sense where it…