Thoughts on Tamil literature and reflections on my poems and tunes. One former Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee flaunts his poetical skills! Another former Prime Minister V.P.Singh had his poetry reading session listened to by four other former Prime Ministers! All these happenings had lifted Indian poetry to Olympian heights?
Kalam’s call for second Green Revolution
Ajit Singh’s call for productivity and intensive farming. Do they know the ground reality of agriculture? Who speaks for farmers? How committed is the government for the agri sector? At the second International Congress on Plant Physiology, the President said this. The agri minister said this. What about the Prime Minister and his distinguished Cabinet…
Surplus horticulture production is here!
But no credible agri export strategy is visible! Surplus onion and potato production and fall in prices! This `annual ritual’ gives us an idea of how horticulture sector is capable of over producing and prices crashing! Indian horticulture cries for attention. What we need is not extension of horticrops. Nor crop productivity. What we need…
We tell bankers: change your mindset!
Take initiatives to do more than mere lending. Bankers are back in the news. For the obvious reason they think that with the Securitization Bill they can recover the NPAs easily. Some of the high profile banks, notably ICICI have attached industrial properties.
Classics on education
What was ancient Indian education like? It is a million pities that a modern Indian is very much aware-let alone proud-of India’s heritage. In the long process of assimilation of foreign influences we have lost our own identity. After nearly half a century of freedom our educated minds are not free from foreign ideas and…
Delhi Schools blamed for high fees
How true? And how justified this criticism? Everywhere school fees are rising. Why not? That’s how school managements justify the fee hikes in the face of rising costs. While this doesn’t make use in our dailies, in Delhi the school fee hike is a raging public debate.
Education orthodoxy questioned
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…
India’s Model of public school
A short history, an English headmaster, a mix of many contradictions, claims to pedigree, pressures of paying high fees and the consequent pushing off the more genteel classes by the new commercial and business tycoon families make this once proud imitator of the British model into India’s own new model. The crack of a cricket…