Is there anything called pure education? Education standards as such can’t do much to improve the standards of living or the quality of living. For the later virtues we have to search for salvation, not in education but in economics and culture. Here in a perceptive review of an education report just published in the…
Announce a new policy for micro enterprises in agriculture!
Microcredit gets the Nobel Prize! Will micro enterprises in agriculture gets recognition? If the leadership motivates the people at the grass roots, there would be tremendous response. The Nobel Prize for Peace had justifiably been given to the Bangladeshi economist and innovative entrepreneur Prof.Mohammed Yunus for his justly famous micro credit innovative business model and…
The 11th Plan document, uninspiring and bureaucratic!
Putting agriculture as “one of the central elements” of the Plan would be a challenge. The 11th Plan is to start from April 1,2007. The next General Election is due in 2009. So, the 11th Plan document is both politics and economics! Readers can draw their own conclusions! Populist language abound in the document, at…
Food self sufficiency and food security
Has the government any clear vision? Let the government at least now onwards say clearly that the one common goal before Indian agriculture is to achieve food self sufficiency alone, before any other things are talked about. There has been of late much concern about the poor growth rate in agriculture. This has baffled everybody,…
Special Economic Zones
Something somewhere has gone wrong! Farmer’s interests to be safeguarded first. SEZs are now the buzzword that had created almost an earthquake of sorts! Everyone who is anyone in the government or outside in the corporate sector is pitiching for vast acres of land, prime agricultural land in most cases for what seems to be…
Dreams remain-Truth seekers defy conventional wisdom!
Truth seekers defy conventional wisdom! Truth seekers are two kinds. Those who advance knowledge and those who advance our morality! Truth seekers are the most god-given people. Or, the chosen people, we can say without any religious overtones! Just now I read about Francis Bacon, the founder of modern science. Born on January 22, 1561,…
A youth icon for modern times
How Winston Churchill was denied a unanimous honor by the famous Oxford Union Debating Society! Street fighting years An autobiography of the Sixties-by Tariq Ali,PP 381,2006,Seagull,Kolkatta This is by any account a great book. A book that is youth idealism personified. Tariq Ali, the author was a sort of hero to my own generation in…
Indian society is changing fast!
Yet, the Indian mindset, our mentality remains the same! Large scale Indian migrant population today. Large scale racist, religious abroad, violence against fellow Indians in the Indian states! Has the dominant Indian mindset changed? A caste society might become progressively a class society? Indians seem to be living blissfully unaware of the world outside, also…