Why not? After all, the person is a State’s Chief Minister! Mamata Banerjee, affectionately and popularly called Didi, by any stretch of imagination, is a remarkable person. She is a woman leader of exceptional merit, a proven clean leader in a society and politics that is unfortunately a notoriously corrupt. We live at a time…
Chandrababu Naidu is creating a new AP!
That shows in the physical changes and the mental outlook of the Andhra people! Andhra Pradesh, with all our admiration for the veteran leader Mr.Chandrababu Naidu and his new team of ministers, is still the most backward state among the Southern Indian states. That shows when you drive through the state. Specially, Chittoor district is…
Take agriculture seriously!
Electoral defeat or setback is not the time for agriculture policy making! It must be done independently! Only when you have a firm faith or a vision of the largest number of people engaged in an activity that holds critical role in the creation of sustainable wealth and distribution of the same for the largest …
Since Independence, India hasn’t thought of education independently!
This thought flashed through my mind like a lightening rod yesterday when I saw the video of a BBC debate in the Westminster Hall in London The subject of the debate in which two heavyweights participated was Ancient Athens vs. Ancient Rome! Who were the participants? Mr. Boris Johnson, currently the British foreign minister in…
2G-Scam, Scandal or Shame?
A Great Shame! And see who are all claiming victory? The most revered former Prime Minister! All the loud-mouthed Congress spokesmen! And lo! All the publically perceived corrupt faces! Yes, this is India where the judicial system looks a laughing stock! We don’t know how to make sense of the 2-G verdict. Fortunately, this is…
We need a new liberal and open society education system and values
Mere academic discussion alone won’t transform Indian education! We need a broad social and political ideology! Those opens up and integrate into a new class-based liberal society where the upper class, the middle class and the rest of the classes feel the society opened up and accommodate all citizens as enjoying equal rights and opportunities…
What makes news in education nowadays?
It is fairly predictable Yes, it is! Any negative news is only news! Other than negative news is no news This is the rule of the so many TV news channels! Why education only! It is also true for many of our other concerns! The Israeli Prime Minister is on a state visit to India,…
Educators: how much they must be educated?
No need for any education? Is it only the entrepreneurial instinct that matter? Or, the educators must be the most enlightened people? In new ideas and articulations? Decide in whatever fashion you want! Here are certain new ideas and new ideological convictions! That could give the Indian context, the present times and the challenges we…