This seems to be an ideal world. The one we live in is the bestof all possible worlds, right? So, educators have a duty and also a right to ask questions. Prof. Sukanta Chaudhuri, Professor Emeritus of Jadavpur University, Kolkatta has written a thoughtful piece in the Economic Times of 6thFebruary, 2020. We like to…
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What chance for optimism in agriculture?
In a situation when we find the Indian agriculture in debts and droughts and floods!Why, even you can add litigation and much else! This year’s Christmas double issues of the internationally known magazine, The Economist, has written its major editorial on Optimism vs. Pessimism. The widely read intellectual elite journal has highlighted the radical changes…
Give agriculture sector media support!
Let us build an enlightened agricultural lobby!An effective agricultural lobby needs much media support! Two much bureaucracy weakens farmers-policy makers interaction. What should be done now? Give media support! Agriculture is now in the dark. Not the crops and crop prices. The people who flood this vital economic segment. 50 people who toil in 15…
University education is going off-track
See, what is making news and capturing public attention What purpose does JNU violence and so many agitations serve? It is a very tragic story not yet fully unveiled and the days and months to come would be severely lost and no public good is likely to be served if the antagonists and the protagonists…
How long would it take to make education policy?
A country is without an education policy Education is not just a day-to-day activity as it is with a large number of stake-holders today. Education in India has become a highly commercial activity. Take a newspaper or turn a TV screen, they scream with full-page ads that proclaim, if we can so put it, a…
What is next in education? More of the same!
Commercialization and money-making? It has been one full-term and the beginning of the second term! The education policy hasn’t been completed. We don’t want to sound shallow and by any means non-serious. Education is a tough field at any time. Education is as serious as you are and as comprehensive as your learning and perceptions….
The political developments over the NRC and the CAA!
The eruption of large scale violence and aftermath of events! Isn’t it time to call off the controversial legislations? The violence in UP, the country’s largest State and the hub of the 200 million strong Muslim citizens must be sending all the signals for retreating on the path of the same policies? By any reckoning…
Political uncertainties at the time of economic slowdown widespread protests over NRC and CAA.
What are the short and medium-term implications?A confrontationist polity? Agri economic slowdown? Yes, the many critical sectors, agriculture, rural India and the generation of employment for the youth etc are all giving a sense of uncertainty. This is not good. We need to speedily cultivate a collective sense of solidarity, a sense of reconciliation and…