Agriculture from across the world! Small scale farming and plantation scale farming! Agriculture problems are special to each country! A latest issue of The Economist magazine has covered the rice farming countries of Asia. We have also seen some of them, mainly, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Thailand. The other prominent Asian rice economies are Indonesia…
Elite schools vs common schools
Politically correct pronouncements and the ground-level realities There was this empty debate on the recent Delhi high court judgement on the wrong policy of one Delhi-based IAS officers'(or IAS Officers wives-run) Sanskriti school for reserving 60 per cent of the admission to IAS officers ‘children. Delhi is the middle class haven for all sorts of…
Bihar election outcome!
The many implications! First, the next Lok Sabha elections in 2019 could be very different! Nitish Kumar, the alternative Prime ministerial candidate? The revolt within the BJP can have other implications! What about the future of the Congress? Bihar is a backward state. So, not much close attention is not given to its performance under…
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi’s political future
M.L.Fotedar’s time bomb? Now, the Bihar’s Assembly election results had suddenly changed the Indian political landscape. With Nitish Kumar-Lalu Yadav’s sweep of Bihar, the assertive and even aggressive Narendra Modi seems beatable in the next general election. This is too short a time in which Mr.Modi’s historic 2014 Lok Sabha election seemed to be a…
Higher education in the USA! Higher education in India!
What is common and what is uncommon? Higher education in India can’t be dictated by middle class mania like merit only. We have to design a higher education system that shape and strengthens the Indian social and cultural fabric and also enriches life of the common man with a unique Indian personality. With traditions and…
Shocking but true!
The agri ministry is lethargic in spending its allocated budget! It has spent only 28% of its budgetary estimates against a target of 33% How many in the country, especially farmers know of the pathetic state of affairs in the key ministry that holds them to ransom with all its current miseries of suicides, debts…
Reforming education system in India
How to minimize commercialization and corrupt practices in Indian education? Smriti Irani on education reform in India Global Scholars to teach in Indian Universities But how serious is the new government? We are all these months, some 16-17 months, been hearing about some other priorities in education. Right or wrong? We heard that Sanskrit will…
Letter to Makhan Lal Fotedar
Dear Sri Fotedarji, This letter might surprise you for you don’t know me but I know you! I used to see you years ago whenever I came to see Indiraji. This was many years ago. Anyway, just now I read your book, Chinar Leave which makes for interesting reading. I used to work at the…