Mantralaya has come out with some new, geeky, tech-savvy gadgets to enhance security, customer satisfaction, so on and so forth... (Atleast said that...)
18 Jan 2012
UP polls... & Caste based politics...
Up polls: the talk among most of the politicos and social engineers...
Which way is the wind blowing in this complex, radical, strategic, 4-player game is exciting, to say the least...
In this complex cryptic puzzle, Parsa Venkateshwar rao Jr. tells how much does the caste based politics effect the results and why do they do so to such a deep extent...
In his article:
Markets need local cues to maintain peace
Market need local cues to maintain peace by Lachman Ramachand on DNA editorial of Jan 16th 2012...
Kayani: A wise and wily military officer...
Genl. Kayani had a fantastic opportunity to out-coup the Pakistan civilian government in the last fortnight or so with the memo-gate fiasco and the aggressive judiciary...
Is it worthwhile?
Will it work to his advantage?
Has he set bigger goals?
Feels, fmr ambassador, Rajiv Dogra...
'There's space for every party that works for dalit emancipation'
Q&A
with Badri Narayan, academic and political analyst, and a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the G B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, discussing "his current research, UP chief minister Mayawati's past performance - and the state's forthcoming elections."
Interview - Q&A
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
with Badri Narayan, academic and political analyst, and a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the G B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, discussing "his current research, UP chief minister Mayawati's past performance - and the state's forthcoming elections."
Interview - Q&A
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
Republic Of Opinions
Without declassification, we can only have uninformed debates about the past
Republic Of Opinions
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
A very well written article on the importance of declassification, the lack of which leads to a "republic of opinions" - one where opinion takes precedence over factual matters - and blurs, if not entirely corrupts, our knowledge of the past.
Republic Of Opinions
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
A very well written article on the importance of declassification, the lack of which leads to a "republic of opinions" - one where opinion takes precedence over factual matters - and blurs, if not entirely corrupts, our knowledge of the past.
Birth rite
Why haven't we found a way to take the pain out of childbearing?
Birth rite
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
Jug Suraiya expressing his surprise at Science not even looking towards easing the process of child birth, always fraught with pain and danger, in spite of questioning the "natural order of things" in other areas such as improving life expectancy and creating bio-engineering techniques, like cloning, making "humankind un-mortal if not immortal."
Birth rite
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
Jug Suraiya expressing his surprise at Science not even looking towards easing the process of child birth, always fraught with pain and danger, in spite of questioning the "natural order of things" in other areas such as improving life expectancy and creating bio-engineering techniques, like cloning, making "humankind un-mortal if not immortal."
The China Syndrome
Blind Spot in India's Look East policy
The China Syndrome
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
Taiwan's success story hasn't so far caught India's eye, and has remained a blind spot in India's Look East policy, in spite of the many possibilities of strengthening, say, electronics hardware manufacture, among many other things relating to trade, through developing ties with Taiwan.
The China Syndrome
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
Taiwan's success story hasn't so far caught India's eye, and has remained a blind spot in India's Look East policy, in spite of the many possibilities of strengthening, say, electronics hardware manufacture, among many other things relating to trade, through developing ties with Taiwan.
Brick In The Wall
Emphasis on universal schooling is fine, but the discourse must now shift to quality
Brick In The Wall
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
Recent reports have shown India's dismal performance in the field of education. Quality needs to be given top priority if India is to rise from such abysmal standing in primary, secondary and higher secondary school education.
Brick In The Wall
-The Times of India, January 18, 2012
Recent reports have shown India's dismal performance in the field of education. Quality needs to be given top priority if India is to rise from such abysmal standing in primary, secondary and higher secondary school education.
The British boarding school remains cruel
"While condemning global injustices against children, we overlook the ethics of removing seven-year-olds from their families."
Texas appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week, The Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children. Police now patrol the schools, arresting and charging pupils as young as six for breaches of discipline. The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : The British boarding school remains cruel.
Texas appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week, The Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children. Police now patrol the schools, arresting and charging pupils as young as six for breaches of discipline. The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : The British boarding school remains cruel.
Yet most of them have committed no recognised crime. As one of the judges who hears their cases explained, “If any adult did it it's not going to be a violation”. The law permits people to do things to children that they could not do to adults.
'A case of the haves and have yachts'
"A Conservative Minister, close to Prime Minister David Cameron, suggested that the country, teetering on the edge of a new recession, its politics racked by 2.5 million unemployed people and harsh public spending cuts, give Queen Elizabeth II, one of the world's richest women, a gift of well, er, a yacht.
The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : 'A case of the haves and have yachts': And no ordinary yacht: a $90 million, high-masted, oceangoing yacht with staterooms and polished brass and a crisply uniformed crew to pipe Her Majesty aboard."
The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : 'A case of the haves and have yachts': And no ordinary yacht: a $90 million, high-masted, oceangoing yacht with staterooms and polished brass and a crisply uniformed crew to pipe Her Majesty aboard."
Prime Minister strongly supported the idea of a new royal yacht but one, they noted with a wary eye to the public gallery, that would be financed by private donations and that could double as a training ship for naval cadets from underprivileged backgrounds. The queen said nothing..!
Teachers have to balance demands from various quarters: Howard Gardner
"‘Parents should avoid positive and negative narcissism. The challenge is to watch your children very carefully, see what interests them, and find ways to help them.'"
After challenging certain conventional notions of education with his ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligences', renowned developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been involved in areas such as design of performance-based assessments, education for understanding and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education over the past two decades.
In this interview he speaks on some current trends and contemporary challenges in the sphere of education The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Teachers have to balance demands from various quarters: Howard Gardner.
Prof. Gardner says the best educational systems in the world are the ones that make heroic efforts to provide a quality education for every child.
West's romancing of the Taliban
"People of Afghanistan will pay the price for the West's looming deal with the Islamic Emirate it destroyed after 9/11."
11 years ago, the United States went to war in Afghanistan, promising to free its people from a despotic Islamist regime. President George Bush never delivered on his promises of reconstruction. The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : West's romancing of the Taliban:
Now, even the political promise is vanishing: the U.S. is spearheading an effort to make peace with the Islamists it promised to free Afghanistan from.
The General and the labyrinth
"A brave and highly decorated officer, General Singh is recognised as a brilliant strategist and a reform-minded leader who is tough on corruption, as reflected in the hard line he adopted against erring officers in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam.
The mudslinging and insinuations intended to portray him as someone fiddling with his birth date to hang on to the power and privileges of high office must be rejected with contempt." The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : The General and the labyrinth
Rather than fight for a bad cause in the highest court in the land, a disputation that could have a bearing on the Army's morale, the government should backtrack and come up with a constructive solution.
Polio – the fight must go on
Though no Indian child was recorded as having fallen victim to the disease in the past year, India cannot lower its guard in the matter of immunising its children against polio for a considerable time to come.
This article discusses the challenges and the endgame in polio which needs a carefully planned strategy. The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Polio – the fight must go on
The goal of freeing ourselves from all polio viruses can be achieved only by resolutely following a clear, well-considered strategy.
An imbalance to address
"The government has attributed the weakening of the rupee against the dollar in recent weeks to the reduced inflow into and occasional outflow of foreign portfolio investment from India’s equity markets. "
This article discusses as to why this argument is not convincing. The Hindu : Columns / Chandrasekhar : An imbalance to address: "India cannot continue to rest purely on the benefits it has hitherto derived from the exports of software and IT-enabled services. An effort to realize at least a part of the manufactured export competitiveness that liberalization was supposed to deliver, but did not, is crucial."
Revenues from remittances or the export of labour services cannot be the mainstay of the balance of payments of a modern nation.
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