Who can reform the Indian higher education? You see, there are many sensitive issues in Indian education. What are the frontiers for individual freedom in India? The Supreme Court has ruled that the freedom of speech is limited to your boundaries for not to cause any defamation to your clients. There is a new tension…
What is happening to our education?
So many exams and entrance tests! Yet no substantial intellectual inputs NEET-I and II, ComedK and CET and many more! The Supreme Court is now actively engaged to untangle the issues and fix some critical questions. There are issues like PUC question papers leaks and the involvement of the police to fix the criminals. The…
Public opinion and public perceptions!
Judiciary speaks out! Public opinion elated! Latest news on the Uttarakhand Assembly developments has caused a nation-wide sense of discomfort, to say the least. First, the Central Government imposed President’s Rule. Lately, after the BJP government came to power with an absolute majority for the first time displacing the Congress-led coalitions for long, almost for…
An inflated economic growth rate?
The Reserve Bank Governor’s warning! Was it worded in the politically incorrect language? The highly-rated RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan had made the very insightful remark on India’s economic growth claims claiming that because only the Indian economy is reportedly growing at 7.5 plus rate that we, Indians, shouldn’t feel complacent nor should we imagine that…
Indian agriculture goes digital?
Yes, e-market, e-NAM, the Internet-based National Agricultural market connecting 21 mandis from 8 states was launched by Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi on April 14. This is a most revolutionary step. A giant step, historically too. After almost of millennium of darkness, the Indian agriculture sees a great leap. The Internet tech that has transformed the…
Nitish Kumar’s political pedigree must help!
Nitish Kumar’s call for a new unity of Opposition parties! To take on the BJP, RSS challenges to the Indian polity! Now, Mr.Lalu Prasad Yadav, the chief of Rashtriya Janata Dal, has come out openly supporting Mr.Nitish Kumar, the incumbent Chief Minister as the next Prime Minister in 2019, the Opposition Parties, across the political…
Pope Francis takes Syrian refugees to Vatican! A heart-rending scene!
Apple iPad has brought the whole outside world into our living room! And that is the great luck of the time we live through, it seems. A little small Syrian girl falls at the feet of the great Christian father and cries, rather loudly that viewers like us are deeply moved and in fact many…
Music and Education!
Arts, culture, music and cinema Culture is a complex word and concept. Modern culture basically means Western European culture Modern culture as it evolved in the late 18th and early 19th century, industrialized England. What the thinkers, writers, poets and critics led by Mathew Arnold is what I take here as examples. Arnold’s three classes,…