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…
Liberal freedoms and the illiberal fears!
India passes through a new phase!How the people and the rulers are understanding issues and challenges? The Maharashtra inglorious episode is an aberration or a new trend? Let us hope this is just an aberration that is cut short for the common good of all the people of India and also for the wiser counsel…
Remembering Varghese Kurian and many other agricultural pioneers
Agriculture today is vastly changed and we need to understand the current world of agriculture! Indian agriculture, a field for pessimism or optimism? Agriculture is always on the top of the minds and tongues of Indian politicians, right? Even in the current unseemly political adventure in Maharashtra politics agriculture is talked about. Sharad Pawar the…
Farmers, one more flip on the TV screens only?
When do we care for farmers, if at all?When Sharad Pawar goes to meet the PM? Yes, it looks so. The other day when the government formation in Maharashtra was at its most hectic pace, Sharad Pawar the senior most old Congress leader, now the chief of the much depleted Nationalist Congress party (NCP), was…
Democracy’s golden moments!
Sharad Pawar’s finest hour!A leader of unmatched character and why, even moral fibre at a time of such a serious crisis situation! Maharashtra developments, by any reckoning, is a watershed moment in the way the incumbent Central government demonstrated its new governing principles and strategies. The pre-dawn coup and the swift movements of exchanges of…
Making New Education Policy! For how long?
The Union Minister for Human Resources has informed the Rajya Sabha that the department has received more than two lakh suggestions on the proposed New Education Policy (NEP) and the same are being examined. The Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal has also stated that the Ministry has also consulted all the state education ministers, besides secretaries and…
Indian education at the crossroads
More Indian students still go abroad for higher educationWhen will the foreign students come to India for education? How are our freedoms and creative energies threatened? Our universities, seniors and intellectuals are failing the common man. As I type these lines, I see on the TV screen, scenes of protest by JNU students in Delhi…