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 teach culture and values in our schools and colleges
We need to recast our humanities education to revamp Indian attitudes and character. The British legacy seems to have had not a so positive an impact. We have not become a self confident nation! Not yet. Why this is relevant today? Education at present in India is stagnant. Why we say so? We see this…
Education in a non liberal society
Our education status today! Many of us, why, even the majority of us, as a society are not, or don’t make, an open society, right? By this, what do we mean? See the recent controversy that broke out over the making of an indigenous vaccine for e.g. Covid 19. Discovering an India made vaccine must…
Prof.Amartya Sen in the news!
Do you know for what reasons?In house plot ownership trouble!Let us appoint foreign faculty in Indian universities! Who doesn’t know Prof.Amartya Sen, the second Nobel Prize winner from that remote, desolate land of Santiniketan, which every Indian knows and feels proud of – as an innovative university founded by Rabindranath Tagore? The Nobel Laureate now…
Farmers’ agitation must end!
Better it ends right now! There is as of now, as we writes massive trust deficit between the farmers and the government and this trust deficit must somehow be brought to an end. How is the unresolved question. Farmers’ agitation and the way the deadlock is going to be resolved. The role of the media…
Protests in a democracy okay!
But peaceful protests can’t be prolonged or unlimited! The current farmers protests in Delhi has created a new phenomenon from starting as a peaceful protest by farmers from Punjab and Haryana, mostly Jat-Sikh farmers who, as everyone in the rest of the country knows, are relatively well-off comparatively and well organised as a professional group,…
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…