What new to be said about him? Dr.Verghese Kurien, the public face of India’s milk revolution, is no more. He had left his imprint on the lives and fortunes of every Indian village, every rural household in a very significant manner that Indian villages, Indian rural landscape won’t be any more poverty stricken, thanks his…
Quality education in Indian schools and colleges?
Inside the curriculum and outside the curriculum! Secondary schools, at least in the most resourceful ones, must be open-minded, open to new ideas and new experiments. Outside the curriculum, a range of activities, from good libraries, high quality journals to travels and visits to historic sites and even foreign countries and also extra-curricular activities like…
FDI in a big way? Welcome!!
But who will be in charge? The current Prime Minister and his team lost their mandate! It is the next government that will decide the FDI in many sectors! This decision claimed and hailed as breaking into the last great China Wall. But the public scepticism, in the context of the series of corruption scandals…
Once an admired Prime Minister!
Now, a lonely figure of pity and much sympathy? Who thinks of India? Who thinks for India? What is the big picture for India? Indian democratic system in crisis? Big bang economic reforms made news. This was for a brief time. In just 2 years! From 2010 to 2012, what a fall! Then he was…
News in pictures/magazines
India, America and China Democracy is expanding in the world! Freedom is also expanding in the world? Yes, seems to be the current mood we find in large parts of the world. Even in the former Communist, Soviet Russian states, we find there are elections and also of course, internal tensions and even violence. The…
Meeting a Vice-Chancellor
Meet Padmashri Prof.Jalees A.K.Tareen! Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry Central University A dynamic personality, driven by a strong-willed vision and an optimistic outlook! Such a personality is rare indeed in today’s academic world. Prof.Tareen is one such rare individual. He is now serving out his end of the term incumbent role of Vice-Chancellor. But he would be…
“Russian agriculture is the opportunity of the century!”
How agriculture and food could become new diplomatic tools in the modern world! Droughts, rising food prices make economies, big and small vulnerable to new challenges! US economy is still in the slowdown mode only! Obama faces an uphill task in facing the Republican challenge! Russian agriculture is the opportunity of the century? To overcome…
Economic slowdown, bad governance, policy paralysis etc.
We don’t call the new corruption-list as crony capitalists! Economic slowdown will hit everyone! The rich and the poor alike! Big infrastructure projects worth 1.5 lakh crores left pending! PSUS with lakhs of cash are not investing. Of course, the private sector, FDI are all left in great many doubts and uncertainties! Economic slowdown and…