Yes, in a significant way! Yet the state governments would keep the issue for electoral politics! The Union minister for Water Resources Mr.Parshottam Rupala, was in Coimbatore the other day and he took the opportunity to reassure the farmers of Tamil Nadu to say that the Central government was not taking any partial stand with…
Indian mindset: a permanent state of dependency, even despondency?
How long we Indians would be under the British syndrome trap? Why don’t Indians learn to think independently? Why do we always look for outside opinion? Are we not dependent upon outside opinion to even understand ourselves? Why still the surveillance, servility of mind? What do we mean by syndrome? We mean a combination of…
Government and publicity!
It is time we take serious steps to revamp the government publicity and also try hard to evolv e a credible independent media, both in the public and the private sector. It is not an easy job that can be done by any minister or a bureaucrat. Please consult the experts and known professionals with…
Indian Languages and the Indian literature
As a journal of education and by extension we include culture and the arts. This also extends our responsibility of the very spectrum of the India’s many languages that are now reportedly facing extinction. The recent reports from expert bodies also names some of the reportedly 40 odd tribal languages, from the Nilgiris hills; we…
How to reduce the exam burden on the 10th and 12th Std students?
Prakash Javadekar’s invitation! The hon’ble HRD minister Mr.Prakash Javadekar has asked people and experts and parents for suggestions as to how to reduce the burden on the 10th and the 12th standard exams which have become a scandal in India. In no other country the bureaucratic hold on the administration of education had reached such…
Education is the mirror to society and politics? It seems to!
Seriously, what is education? It is Enlightenment! You can debate the subject however you want. However you debate the subject of education and the various strands that flow from it, the central question is that an education for any country has certain common features. American education, for instance, defines the way the American people and…
Can India dream big enough?
Can we create an MIT-like institution in our life-time? Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi spoke, not long ago, at the Centenary celebrations of the Patna University, about creating a competition from among the top 20 universities for reaching the Centres of Excellence by allotting Rs.1, 000 crores to each one of them. That was a brilliant…
Is this all to the eradication of corruption? Under the Modi government? And only this much of expertise from the NIIT? Yes, this is a very timely book no doubt. It gets a collection of articles written by almost by all members who work at the NITI, the body that replaced the old Planning Commission…