After the Amartya Sen-Rajiv Kumar TV Debate on the economy Now, the great game of the 2019 election! Yes, there are some dramatic moments in the political and economic debates in recent times. One was of course the much-talked about No-confidence debate in the Lok Sabha. In a significant sense, this debate gave Mr.Rahul Gandhi…
India’s healthcare sector and much else!
We need to sensitise the public opinion and public policies with greater doses of ground level realities! The growing inequities, injustices and falling sensitivities make life for the common man more and more miserable! In many social sector policies, like education, health, why even other sectors that address issues for weaker sections and disadvantaged sectors…
An agenda for 2019!
Indian democracy faces multiple challenges! We can’t take for granted the current realities alone! There can be unanticipated developments! Politics is now all the passion and superficial concern of the dominant sections of society. Every one, I mean the citizen, who has made some progress in life, earned wealth and an ambition to further his…
Farm sector crisis takes bizarre forms and shapes!
Farmers agitate and come out on the roads and show their anger and helplessness! Of course, agriculture, as we say, is always a difficult sector. It has become more and more so simply because we tend to take the disorganised, inequity-ridden sector for granted. The very many antiquated land laws, from agricultural landownership to tenancy…
New Education Strategy for 2022 meeting in Mussoorie
Education reforms not so easy and that calls for deep thought! Former President Pranab Mukherjee was in Nagpur the other day. That raised many eyebrows. For the right and wrong reasons! The guest speaker said that India’s identity is about tolerance. Fine, perhaps we would have said, Indian polity too should be known for its…
Farmer’s distress takes ugly turns!
In many states, 100 and odd farmers groups, on the roads! What prevents purposive actions and decisions? The Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken well and in an eloquent manner at Khekhda in Meerat on the occasion of inauguration of the 135 km Easter Peripheral Express way in Bagpat on the role of farmers in…
Macaulay’s children today
Education in an uncertain world Education for Enlightenment! Please understand one and all! Yes, Indian education today is being driven by the sheer mindless market forces! Everyday, we are flooded with full-page newspaper ads claiming this or that targets of first rankers or other exams. But do you know the world outside? There is resistance…
Where are the intellectuals in India?
Do the elite society play any notable role in the public life of India? In the Western societies, including USA and Western Europe, in France and other liberal democracies there are who are commonly called public intellectuals. They are either academics or even philosophers or literary figures who speak out openly for the common public…