Political, historical and technological factors. International scenario. These only help or hinder the economic progress of a nation. We need a more openly-debated economic policy too! There is a superficial belief that Dr.Manmohan Singh is an economic expert. He is! Also there is this belief that economic experts can promote economic growth. This belief is…
India needs a new liberalist creed
Decline in Values? Compromise with Evil? Yes, everyday we find that our society, polity and even much of our education and culture are faced with so much of compromises with values. What we hold as dear to our sense of truth and morality. Yet we have learnt to, live with life as it goes on!…
Globalisation: What lessons for India?
There will always be globalisers and anti-globalisers as long as there is an unequal world. Eric Hobsbawm concludes his survey of the end do Communism in these following words: “We do not know where we are going. We only know that history has brought us to this point. However, if humanity is to have a…
National traits, attitudes and character
A series of scandals ! Yet Indians deny themselves all truths! What about the special Indian traits? Our attitudes? Our character? Why we don’t talk so much about our Indian weakness for double talk and double standards? Each nation and culture has its own special traits, attitudes and character. US President George Bush talks and…
Science Education – Evolution is now day-to-day news!
Exciting things are happening in evolution research. Evolution of man is not simply to be explained, in my humble opinion, in biological sense alone. I was glad to read a latest survey of the evolution in the December issue of The Economist magazine (December 24th 2005). The survey titled “The Proper Study of Mankind” covers…
My Oxford-day intellectuals and scholars
They defined the truth and stood up for wisdom! There were a heady mix of great minds,in several disciplines. Of course, philosophers came first and they were in good number,some of the top names who still dominate the world thought. Then came the political and social philosophers, it was time when politics took a back…
How to define knowledge and wisdom?
The world needs more interactive civil society activism! There is a Knowledge Commission deliberating about creating a knowledge society. But what is knowledge precisely? Knowledge is a word first coined by a management guru,Peter Drucker, 30 years ago. So also came the knowledge worker. And now the talk of competitive advantage for a more knowledge-based…
What is an autobiography? A process of self-discovery?
Yes,all serious writings can be only autobiographical. Then,all autobiographies don’t attain the status of great literature. To reach such a status,the mind has to evolve to new dimensions of self-discovery. That has been my experience so far. Writing an autobiography or essaying into one’s own thinking and action has been the perennial human quest down…