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Why I remain unimpressed by our scientists!

Posted on December 20, 2006February 19, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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A beautiful India! A culturally rich India!

Posted on December 20, 2006February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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What is the meaning of education?

Posted on December 20, 2006February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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What minimum programme for Indian schools?

Posted on December 20, 2006February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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What the new school curriculum would achieve?

Posted on December 20, 2006February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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After the PM’s visits to UK and USA

Posted on December 20, 2006February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Even educated Indians don’t bother to know the world!

Posted on December 20, 2006February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Caste, Class and Children out of school!

Posted on December 14, 2006February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

[youtube]i7AY_ljG23Q[/youtube] India is a caste/class society and there are gross inequalities.This shows up in our present education scenario. More so when violence takes strange forms in our society. See the Maharashtra Dalit issue violence and the W.Bengal Mamata Banerjee anti-development violence! From W.Bengal to TN,from Assam to Maharashtra we see these new phenomena of OBC/creamy…

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V. Isvarmurti is a leading public figure from south of India. He is a former member of the then Madras Legislative Council. He had his education at such reputed institutions like Tagore’s Santiniketan and Oxford University. Read More

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