Wonder rice?Yes, it looks like that! This new discovery is likely to reduce emissions and offer a good yield! Much to cheer in the Agri sector! Yes, problems in agriculture are too familiar and too complex. It is not the claim of any politicians to say they have the solutions to this vast spread of…
China’s President bans the big education tuition shops!
They have become too big to regulate!To save children from the oppression of too much tuition burden! China beats the world education market! More students population!More resources, aggressive government’s education policies!President Xi’s Thought is now in the curriculum! Every year this time schools and colleges reopen not just in India but all over the world….
How agriculture has become a powerful political tool in big economies?
Is India still a deficit food economy?And Russia and other big economies are using their agriculture power as a political and diplomatic tool? Yes, we read every day about our agriculture development news. As bit players filling up our newspaper columns as a box news item, saying how the Kharif sowing, for instance, as normal…
How does agriculture matter to all sections of society?
Yet how agri issues are relegated to lower priority! Yes, agriculture doesn’t rank high in any of our day-to-day concerns except in our meals times! Yes, agriculture has evolved over time in such a way that when we think of agriculture, we think of villagers and rural India and rural India is what it is…
Writing School and college textbooks!
Issues in changing socio-political times! There are controversies in writing new textbooks first, in the BJP-ruled times and now in Tamil Nadu with a new government in power! The newly elected Government in Tamil Nadu has appointed a new chairman of the School textbook Committee and whose name has evoked controversies? The new chairman is…
Education for Democracy?
Or, for what else?Yes, it is an obvious question but no one asks! You all must be knowing that the New Education Policy (NEP) has been on the table, so to say, for quite some time. But there is no takeoff, again, to ask an obvious question! First, there was a long gestation period after…
Not forget Agriculture issues!
Towards sustainable agriculture!Not pursuing an unsustainable rural development strategy! Our conception of agriculture and rural development as things stand is so out of date and not in accordance with how the Indian rural realities are shaping up with rapid urbanization and employment opportunities are opening up with education spreading on a vast scale. Agriculture is…
ARE WE STILL FOLLOWING A COLONIAL CURRICULUM IN INDIAN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES?
There is in England today a debate on what they call a cultural war in teaching British history. British slave ownership, 800,000 Africans who were legally owned, were freed by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. This history has raised a new debate new culture war in Britain today. Two years ago there was this…