Category Archives: governance

Education Today: Ramanujan and Premchand

Posted on February 17, 2012 by indra

Recent studies have found Indian students utterly inferior to the students from almost all countries. It was strange to find the Indians poorer in English and mathematics in comparison to even the Chinese. The Chinese have topped in that survey … Continue reading →

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Gloomy Growth, Hopeless Managers

Posted on February 14, 2012 by indra

It is getting serious. Slow down is real. Achievable growth rate for the current fiscal is being reduced again and again. According to a survey of professional forecasters by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), forecast for growth in gross … Continue reading →

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‘Aakash’ Lost in Ministry Mess

Posted on February 12, 2012 by indra

It is unfortunate and shameful too. It is more so where it has become a conflict between the HRD ministry and IIT, Rajasthan. A country can develop its own indigenous advanced interceptor missile and successfully test it. It can compete … Continue reading →

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Will India’s Education Revolution Succeed?

Posted on February 6, 2012 by indra

Kanti Bajpai has written a wonderful article dealing with a need for bringing about ‘an education revolution’: “No country has transited from being poor and backward to being rich and developed without an education revolution.” We are hardly to wait … Continue reading →

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Two Wished Election Codes

Posted on February 4, 2012 by indra

Many would have imagined that the present UP election would be fought on the issues such as corruption or the world’s worst poverty prevailing in the country and more so in the state that is undergoing election battle. But on … Continue reading →

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From Nano to Aakash

Posted on January 29, 2012 by indra

Four years ago Tata Motors unveiled the Nano (Images). Overnight Ratan Tata became an iconic figure of auto industry. India got a unique global recognition of an industrial nation with capability of breakthrough innovation. The world recognized India’s mastery of … Continue reading →

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India’s R&D, Science and Mathematics

Posted on January 19, 2012 by indra

We had a lot of hope from Nilesh, the youngest son of my cousin Nirmal. He wasted a year in Kota taking coaching for getting into IITs and then took admission in a private engineering school near Agra. He has … Continue reading →

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Science, R&D and Prime Minister

Posted on January 10, 2012 by indra

A Prime Minister is really under strains and stresses, facing hundreds of problems of this most populous democracy on the globe. He can have an honest intention and so promises but can also expect to be excused for not keeping … Continue reading →

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Media and 99th India Science Congress

Posted on January 7, 2012 by indra

Media is considered one of the important pillars of democracy. It must assist in covering and propagating the news of national importance. The 99 th India Science Congress, the greatest show for the science and scientists of the country got … Continue reading →

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Will Lokpal Battle End with a Good New Year Gift to Nation?

Posted on December 22, 2011 by indra

The whole country is agog with the every hour changing news and rumour on the Lokpal Bill. Congress by its continuously vacillating stands over last few months has raised the political pitch of the parties in oppositions as well as … Continue reading →

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