Obama’s image takes a beating! India’s image too at risk! The influx of refugees mostly from Syria and North Africa into Europe is reaching epidemic proportions. Harrowing pictures of people, women, children and men had touched the millions of global citizens. The really shocking pictures of three year old dead on the beach, the inhuman…
Education is always tied to jobs, right? What else?
Where is India heading? Let us settle with the ground-level reality! The rich, the middle class and the poor have their own education goals, please note it. In India, there is hypocrisy when it comes to education. Education today is seen more and more in terms of money and profits for the most efficient and…
The Origins of the Indian National Congress
Written in 26 weekly articles by Swami Shraddhanand, known as the Mahatma before Mahatma Gandhi was so called There were many attempts to establish an Indian style education purely based on Indian values. The Kangri Gurukul of the Arya Samaj was based on Vedic values. Mahatma Gandhi called it as basic education based on hand…
Mr.Modi must tread carefully in Bihar!
Sugar industry is in crisis! When it will be solved and how it can be done? Yes, Indian sugar industry is in deep crisis. There is an 80,000 crore industry, the very basis of Indian commercial agriculture base and it is an international level industry, perhaps, only next to Brazil. Today, we see a sad…
Mr.Modi, dont neglect agriculture!
Farmer’s suicides seem unabated, they continue! Yet, no systematic response is in sight! It is easy to blame the government for many of the ills of governance. The Prime Minister is blamed routinely for many of the ills and lack of governance in some critical areas. Farmers’ continued suicides are not in this category. Farmers…
Idol thefts in India
Tony Abbott – Australian Prime Minister returns the idol to India India’s Past, Present and Future What is the Indian education’s contribution? It is a big question and a very tough one. A question worth asking. Do we all know India’s past? I am of the view that Indians of this generation at least know…
Mariana Mazzucato: invest in research for innovative technologies
More people are educated than before in India What does that mean to our own lives and the country? Will India become a more confident nation or will there be more timidity, given our history? Education in India is spreading fast. There is almost universal awareness among the parents, educated and the not so well-educated,…
Modi’s one year in power!
Challenges of Democracy Roles of ruling party and Opposition parties The BJP has some vague socio-cultural ideology. It has no sound political ideology. Nor any historically relevant economic ideology. It is time we realise India itself now needs a very clearly stated contemporary ideologies. We can’t see any one country. We are not China. Nor…