Is there any basic economic or political ideological thinking? Prakash Karat, the CPI (M) general secretary is now a sad men so, too the others like the much-talking comrades, from D.Raja to Sitaram Yechury and vetran Pranab Bhardan and the others. Where have all the Bengal comrades gone? Why no tremor or any noise? What…
Prime Minister’s parting shot!
PM blames the media for all his troubles! Will history judge him kindly or harshly? Ask some historians! Yes, PM Dr.Singh in his third and last press conference has announced that he won’t seek a third term. Was this news? Nor no news? It was almost, if we can say, non-news! Why? His last present…
India at the WTO: India a net agri exporter!
Can India win friends and influence people at the WTO? US representative has separate meeting with India! World trade is a big topic. And within it, the world trade in agriculture, commodities is another big area of interest to India. India is now on the cusp of a big push in becoming a number one…
American politics, society and culture
Afghan President visit to India And, suddenly, this ugly Indo-American face-ff erupts! We had almost finished writing this essay detailing what the latest Afghan-American face- off is like! But then the latest face-off between India and the Americans came out! What an irony and also what a sad turn to the widely perceived friendly Indo-American…
Come friends one and all!
We welcome the educators and friends from far and wide! Readers would have found in the last few months once again we are reaching out to friends and educators from far and wide. There are now more features and more coverage of schools and education from across the country as well from across the seas…
Are we becoming a superficial nation?
A superficial celebrity culture doesn’t make a country great! And imitating the Yankee celebrity culture would be the folly of all! A false celebrity culture that tries to hide the more serious side of individuals and the country. Media plays a more and more central role in the affairs of a country. More so in…
There is no rest on the education front!
Education is a continuous process! America is undergoing peculiar distortions in its national outlook! It is tie Indians build an Indian education brand! Education is no more an ideal and an imaginative field. Yes, you need ideas and philosophies. Every thinker is an educator. This is history. Rousseau started out as an art it rather…
A clash of new civilisations?
A new class of barbarians? The display of American brutality and barabarism? This is an education journal. Not any political or other public affairs journal. So, we have to look at the Indo-American diplomatic rupture over a young Indian Consul-General in New York subjected to public humiliation, an official who enjoys protection under the Vienna…