Governance issues will prove the real challenge!As we write the political atmosphere is not yet settled down!Cabinet Ministers face multiple challenges!Home, Defence and Health Ministers already face troubles!Euphoria of massive victory won’t last long!After slogans and cheering would come!The test of governance and many internal and external challenges! Yes, the newly elected Modi government is…
Liberal India in retreat?
BJP victory is not a historical trend!See history, political evolution and much else! Readers of this column must be aware that the writer is not a professional journalist or an academic person. Rather we come from a rural, land-owning family and also educated at Santiniketan and Oxford, UK and also a former member of the…
This year’s liberal exam results
Welcome to an easy season for school education After a long time there was this easy season for the school education. The secondary education lately has become a mad house for all sorts of ills and inequities and a sense of suppression and oppression for the parent community. There is a mad rush for admissions…
Education is not all about political agenda!
The new government’s education is about what?Is it about making India an educated and civilised country and society? Or, is it all about political brain-washing? You see, one has to have a critical mind, an objective mind to talk about serious issue like education and related fields. Education is all about awakening people, a country…
What is Modi government’s education vision?
The first five years must be an indication!Will the new education reform report really change the Indian education? What is the current status of the Indian education? Nobody has raised these questions so far. Now, the Modi government with its massive election victory mandate has all the powers to restructurethe Indian education as it wants.What…
So, Narendra Modi is here once again for a second term!
What are the lessons of 2019 elections?What are the implications for the second term?So, it is death for the Congress party? The exit polls have been dampening for one section and the NDA might be too much to be ready for their impact on the Indian mind! Yes, the 2019 elections have been a watershed,…
This year’s liberal exam results
Welcome to an easy season for school education After a long time there was this easy season for the school education. The secondary education lately has become a mad house for all sorts of ills and inequities and a sense of suppression and oppression for the parent community. There is a mad rush for admissions…
Why politicians and officials shy away from talking about the ground-level realities in agriculture?
Agriculture is both economics and politics! Do you know that currently Lok Sabha MPs are 147 times more richer than rural households! The time has come to realise this utter unreality of the Policy makers empty talk and the ground level realities! 32 years after the first farmer suicide in Maharashtra, nothing has changed! This…