This is the moment for India! However, rural India is too big a sector! Indian economy is moving ahead. However, structural problems remain. One sector is agriculture. Rural development is another. So too the new problems thrown up by the fast changes in many areas. No one person, however powerful, can hope to understand Indian…
Higher education at the cross-roads
Have a vision and define your vision Universities define the image of a country and a society. Now, the Indian universities are caught in a trap as usual. The RSS and the BJP are said to be indulging in their pet trade. The RSS and the BJP are liberal and somewhat superficial forces of the…
How Indian agriculture should be revived? Give security to farmers, first!
Agriculture sector needs more technology-driven solutions! Agriculture prospects and crises, big economies’ concerns? See the slowdowns, crises in China, Brazil and even other big economies. IMF reports China economic slowdown is lowest in a quarter of a century in 2915! Weak commodity prices also hammering countries like Brazil and other emerging markets. The world economy…
Agriculture sector is in crisis.
Desperation is no option! We need to recognise the reality. We need action, in a systematic way and less bureaucratic way. There are many options. New expert panel. Engagement of the private sector. Of course, there are certain legacy issues. Small and marginal farmers, the land ceiling laws, tenancy legislation and of course the persisting…
Start-up India Campaign
Prime Minister’s call for solutions to agri infrastructure! Information is an agri input! Prime Minister was launching the ‘Start-up India’ campaign and he turned to agriculture sector in that context. That seems to be not a coincidence, we believe. The Prime Minister wondered whether our young entrepreneurs, technologists can come up with solutions to the…
Education policy making
Not that easy and simple As the government seems to be imagining There are many serious issues. India has to build an education legacy. We have to understand India’s past history. We have to understand the present day challenges, inside and outside the world. We have to care for India’s past, present and the future….
Who is in charge of education today?
In what direction Indian education is evolving? Education is a topic on which everybody has an opinion, right? We feel discouraged to speak on education simply for this very reason. Fortunately, there is so much wide awareness of the importance of education that everyone, from the rich to the poor, from the ignoramus to the…
Decline of political standards in India?
Yes, it looks like that! Causes and what can be done about it? In the West, both in the USA and Europe they talk of political apathy. In India we have to talk of political decline, decline in the quality of politics. No one talks of this trend, the current trend is very visible both…