It is high time to ask some tough questions? Scarcity of talents in India? Yes, it looks like that! Why the Indian talents are missing in the current ruling dispensation? Whom to blame? Which sector is failing us? Education? Very likely! Yes, if you look around and search for the culprit education is certainly the…
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Education today in India right now is in bigmess
Yes, we have to build a large education infrastructure. More high quality universities. Reverse the trend of outward migration for higher education. Kerala takes a pro-capita list turn? one important change in its party ideology is to invite private players in education. to invest in private universities. Maybe in earlier times this sort of ideological…
Education and the contradictory realities
Indian education is undergoing an unpredictable path. There are many versions of the new education policy(NEP). It is not a uniform view articulated by the government. Prof.Thorat, the former UGC Chairman has latest expressed a view. That seems to be at the very heart of education policy-making. He says that equity in education is very…
The post-NEP Education scenario
India needs a new education vision Mass migration for further education and jobs is now the obsession with Indians! Indian democracy is world’s biggest! So, we need more bold initiatives in sciences and technology and creative arts, culture and innovations. See, what a tiny European country like Croatia (where is it?) has done! Where are…
Let us celebrate Democracy in India!
Democracy and democratic traditions must be defended by all means and upheld much more extensively. Today, both inside India as well as in the outside world, the cause of democracy is not having a positive environment. The so-called big powers are not shining examples of a vigorous. Democratic world, far from it, there is a…
Media Freedoms and the many challenges
India is facing many challenges and the one current headline grabber has hit media freedom. A well-known name in the TV channels is the Republic TV promoted and anchored by the well-known professional, Arnab Goswamy, has been arrested, yes arrested in a not dignified way, he was manhandled by what we can see and kept…
‘FOOD’ FOR THOUGHT – NO POLITICS BUT ‘BON CUISINE’
By KAUSTAV BHATTACHARYYA There was maintained a calibrated detachment from the humdrum world of politicking. Rather the philosophical abstract world of ideas of politics was acceptable and welcomed. Apart from playing sophisticated games, enjoying music there was the pleasure of devouring good cuisine. The culinary heritage and tradition of Piedmontese exclusive clubs is worth the…
Taking agriculture online
A paradigm shift and its time are here and now! The much-dreaded Covid 19 virus menace is here . We in India and the rest of the world are in the midst of this crisis. The only consolation, if we can call this time a consolation is that other more developed countries are equally in…