After all, we are one of the three big agriculture nations! But what is happening in agriculture policy making today? How much attention we give to agriculture And the people depending upon it? The recent WTO ministerial meeting in the distant Brazil ended after disappointing those countries who wanted to improve their trading gains by…
This is liberal education for Indians!
The London Crown Court proceedings on Vijay Mallya! The British media hasn’t given a damn about what is going on in the British courts, neither of the proceedings against Vijay Mallya nor the Indian media, except for the short sensationalism the persona of Mallya invites As for a deeper and serious study of how India…
Culture, the most potent power, you know!
Leonardo Da Vinci, By Walter Issacson, pages 599, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2017 Culture can over-ride many other determinants of how a country or people are judged. So, culture’s power of impacting countries and societies need to be understood and reiterated. Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, just the two from Italy to have made the…
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…
Rahul Gandhi’s Coronation
A Play Acting? Yes, the whole affair looked like a less than serious politics. All the actors in this are well-rehearsed and well-prepared for the day! Also, they all looked very innocent (or controlled their own ability to look artificially serious!) and yet very sensitive to the subject of effecting a political succession in an…
See humanity in a new light!
This is the message from the new Abu Dhabi museum! Look at Abu Dhabi universal new museum! There are lessons for India here! What makes nations big and small? Not their geography or the population or its military power, it is a new set of universal values, new set of public conduct and also the…
First, Americans are a stressed lot!
Second, Indians are an agitated lot! What is happening to countries as different as the USA and India? They are all unhappy, disturbed and so it goes! Americans are worried about their health, economy, trust in government, Hate crimes, Crimes, Wars and Conflicts, Terrorist attacks. High taxes, unemployment and low wages climate change and environment….
World Food India (WFI) 2017
Prime Minister Modi’s major speech on agriculture It is nice to see that the Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi made an impressive speech on India’s agriculture sector and India’s Food Processing sector. Many things the PM touched and we welcome his observations. The PM said how India’s potential in the agriculture sector is such that we…