Category: Education

Retired Indians don’t make room for youngsters! See the nominations to the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Not much news coming out from the education ministry,rather pompously rechristened one day under very unfounded optimistic day by an young leader. It is better to go by conventional wisdom and stick to words that could mean something….

They may be intelligent and clever.They are also cunning and quite callous too! Yes, I know what protests I would invite if I say this! We have great scientists and technologists.Nobel Prizes are not alien to Indian science. All these are known and widely publicised and we often pat ourselves what we have achieved.My only…

This is the India I want to promote! What India we think of when we think of India? What is the genius of India? Ask a politician or leaders in any areas! Religion or industry. You will be disappointed! They will have their own answers. As for the professional leaders they might think of their…

How to define education? Recently there was this news from Delhi. Mr.Amar Singh,the Samajwadi leader was denied admission to his twin grand daughters in a prestigious school in Delhi.The private schools in Delhi,as readers unfamiliar with the Delhi education sociology must know,is run like a mafia-type big money operation! Yes,this is the Delhi society’s school…

Should we teach patriotism? Rich schools, or schools, urban schools, rural schools; Schools exist in isolation and what binds the Indian schools? What minimum programme for Indian schools? Regional and language chauvinism had destroyed an Indian identity in the youth .We need some loud thinking, identify the regional politicians who divided the Indian mind and…

After 1000 years of India’s slavery! After 300 years of colonial education! After reading through the latest collection of essays, ” Argumentative Indian” by Prof.Amartya Sen I had read an article by another eminent Professor.This time it is the distinguished historian Romila Thapar. It so happens I know them both and so well! So, I…

Now, India’s voice abroad, Will be heard with respect? I had read carefully the PM’s speeches at Oxford University in UK and later when he spoke before the Congress (US Parliament) in Washington. Yes, they have been carefully written and delivered, also, carefully in the typical Dr.Singh’s fashion, low profile, bureaucratic style, without offence to…

So,what hopes for our leaders to take India forward? E ven highly educated Indians, I mean those with foreign education qualifications and training don’t seem to know how the world is moving forward. Those Indians with foreign qualifications, with MBAs, are employed in corporate world. They are either owner entrepreneurs or employed by businessmen at…