Category: Education

What our schools and universities teach in the sciences? This is the year of Charles Darwin’s 200th year anniversary. February 12, 2009, was Darwin’s 200th birthday. And the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species falls this autumn. There are a spate of articles and even books on Charles Darwin, about his theory and also…

Where our universities are going? Prime Minister’s hopelessness! He calls industry captains to give the government creative ideas! The Indian government has become almost non-functional! If that is a harsh expression, then, readers can give us some other version of the present hopelessness that marks the Indian higher education scenario. Prime Minister is the very…

Class education? Yes, only society decides! Education is an all-time favourite topic. ” Education for all” is a Millennium Development Goad! Yes, there is a terrific effort towards this noble goal. Realistically speaking, the 11th Plan is spending Rs.34,000 crores for education. A big jump! In the 10th Plan, the percentage of education allocation was…

Not to produce manpower for IT companies! Education’s goals are noble, to produce men and women of character, citizens and give them identity etc! There is this trend today. The rather dominant and  because it comes from people who made it good in making huge money, in IT and that is why the particular view…

We will show leadership to the world? Is only India talking the nuclear truth? Other nations, less than perfect? Can the Indian people trust only Manmohan Singh and Pranab Mukerjee? What are the Prime Minister’s true beliefs on the nuclear deal? Yes, India seems to be pretending a lot. We seem to be innocent and…

And a Chinese scholar who hasn’t visited India to lead the research team? Oxford University is doing some innovative programmes on India, it seems. We should wlecome it in India for such innovative programmes, planned and run from far off, from a vantage academic background must surely give us, in India in particular some rare…

Reason and Faith How to create a secular India, a secular democratic society? “Two extravagances: to exclude Reason, to admit only Reason” Blaise Pascal Modern life is as much about sciences and religion, as they ever was at any time. Also, reason and faith. They too are as much about our life, our everyday life…

Anyone cares for such state of affairs? Certainly not Manmohan Singh or Arjun Singh! This year’s annual rankings of the world’s best universities are out! What is news? What do Indian universities know about such news? There was no reaction whatever from whatever quarters you expect to have! Yes, no reaction from the Prime Minister,…