Our civil society must shout more loudly! The AP and Karnataka cases remind us our intolerance of open mind! What education, what liberal values, and what civil society we can be proud about? Open mind is what education is supposed to teach and inculcate. But in India we are yet to travel far. Our education…
A life unparallel/a life with few parallels/an incomparable life/an unusual personality
Each generation learns to study, learn and like to remember certain historic moments or some individuals whom that generation takes as extra-ordinary individuals. They may be leaders, leaders of politics or society or in some significant ways some individuals who in the short run might have had immense impact on that generation. However in the…
Higher education is in crisis and confusion!
Our morale is so low! Yes, we are now in the midst of a terrible crisis and confusion in our higher education sector. On the one side is the government with no plan. On the other is the new breed of education exploiters who fleece the poor and the middle classes! Now come the foreign…
India produces so many billionaires and millionaires!
IIM students get sky-high salaries! So, India now a Superpower? It seems it is time for celebrations for India! This year, the American Forbes magazine that tracks billionaires all over the world revealed for the first time that next to America India has produced so many billionaires! Not even China is near India in this…
Stephen Hawkins’s new book-How to walk the space? How to travel in time?
There is no word, God, in Hawkins’s latest book. A Briefer History of Time (2005) is a deceptively simple book of just 162 pages but is a very hard going reading indeed. I grappled with it for sometime and then honestly given up! But one can read it or glance through the pages for the…
Western notions of economic theories don’t appeal in India
After Karl Marx Indian intelligentsia didn’t progress much! So, the current crop of Western intellectuals and theorists, names like Eric Hobsbawm and a host of UK and US academics, the names are many don’t command any attention nor the Indian intelligentsia ,whoever they are, care to mention here and grab attention. For that matter Indian…
A leader must inspire the people and the elites!
India needs a thinking Prime Minister, an activist Prime Minister! India at the cross-roads! The UPA government is past its mid-term. Already there are tremors in Delhi after the two successive defeats in Punjab and Uttaranchal. The BJP is on the revival trail. There is depression in the Congress camp; there is jubilation in the…
Attention, Sonia Gandhi!
Rural development, a tired theme? But still it drives fear and tremors in Delhi! Ministers can proactively do many things! Corporate social responsibility can be identified and publicized! Civil society initiatives need appreciated and recognized by the governments. The PM must be silently cursing the electorate of Punjab and Uttaranchal for being ungrateful. The Finance…