I am disturbed

Of late, I am in a pensive mood preferring to watch the events unfold itself rather than expecting things of my choice to happen.

As I go round the villages and towns of India,I find no magic has wrought by the so called Globalisation effects. Yes- in urban cities, I find a dramatic transformation due to flush of new found fortunes. The sleeping villages of Bihar, UP, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Mahrashtra, Rajasthan still cling on to their feudal cultures and pristine natural beauty attended by its own beliefs and faiths. I do not expect to see these villages or hamlets transforming in to a metropolitan centres. But having said that I am also worried about the unscrupulous men and women from the cities migrating to the rural areas to destroy, capture and convert the rural settings into concrete jungles. 

They are keen to introduce milk sachets as part of their efforts to accumulate their wealth instead of availing of pure cows' milk. Import vegetables cereal from far lands to feed the local people, thereby making the villagers lazy inactive and forget traditional talents- a new colonisation of mind , body and soul. This must be resisted. People in villages must wake up to preserve their age old and time tested habits and cultures preserve them for future generations while at the same time extend the benefits of modern medical,educational and infrastructural facilities. 

Indigenisation rather than import dependency must be the hallmark.We have no time,I am disturbed and I am being overtaken by events.My voice gets drowned in the hum drum of modern greed. 

Let's awake arise and bring the real growth and not depend upon out-dated text book recommendations!

Higher education at the cross roads

I had been musing over the plight of our future generations.Our politicians had been crying form the roof tops that they have entred politics to serve the people and make India an ocean of knoweledge.Today hardly 2% of our population are enrolled for higher education.Many of our villages have no schools worth the name.Many of our youth coming out of the portals of our educational institutions are not emplyable because they lack proper knowledge and the needed skills.There are no quality control in primary, secondary and even at the University leval educations institutions.Bodies such as UGC,NAAC and AICTE have found themselves in capable of controlling the rapid fluctuations in the quality of education so imparted.Added to this is the privatisation of education,which has contributed to the mushrooming of educational institutions with questionable quality and catering to a substandard education fleecing poor students and impoverished parents.The uneducated parents are the worst affected.The middle class parents beg, barrow or sell their paltry property thinking that one day their sons and daughters would earn to reclaim their lost properties.The rich do not really need the benifits of education excepting to have a social recongnition.In fact,the government instead of reserving seats on caste basis should reserve seats to the poor and the deserving.

Our Country is famous for its corrupt practices.The adage show me the person i shall show you the rules is aptly being followed.We must inculcate through our educational system basic values of honesty,integrity and charity.Our young boys and girls are becoming extremely selfish.They must be taught to be selfless,kind, helpful,respect to the elders and to be honest.To day one can see the rat race thats going on in many metro cities.Girls have lost all values.Boys are no better.For them the end justifies the means.Todays youth will become tomarrows parents.They would be sentinels of our future generations.If they themselves resort to unfair means,what would happen to our civilization?Stop,pause and think.Wake up now or else it would be too late.The parents must teach values to their children.The neo rich are the curse of our society.The politicians do more damage to the fabric of our civilization in the name of dema(n)ocracy.

Teachers parents students doctors lawyers engineers government servants bussiness men and writers must all wake up and work for a common cause of reforming our education system make it more value based and knowledge oriented.Then only we could talk of making India a knowledge society

Thought of the Day...

29/10/05

Have we ever asked a pertinent question whats education?
Have we ever made an attempt to answer?We have been using semantics to define the system of education and then we even make an attempt of hairsplitting analysis between education,litracy and knowledge.Lets suppose education is an acquired knowledge,based on imbibed theories and practical training,then its limted to the extent of the knowledge so acquired.Again litracy is once again remains a self limitng term.One who knows how to read and write can be safely called a litrate.A knowledgeble person is one who has acquired certain practical training and he is able to apply them to find suitable solution to unravel the mysteries of our envioron ment.In olden days,our Gurus and seers had an holistic knowledge about the human existance. To day its a fragmnetd knowledge.The other day I was talking to a Villager who told me about the medicinal use of a banyan tree.He told me how he can cure bleeding ulcers with the help of its leaves.How papya can cure peptic ulcers and its seeds used for curing cirrhosis of liver and many more.Does our modern education had imparted this knowledge .No.Our modern education has created markets for the Western Multinational drug company to dump their dangerous and banned drugs in India.Many of us have found while allopathic science has limited efficacy,but still our habit to resort to it at the drop of our hat cannot be gainsaid.We know the dangerous drug reactions and its side effects. The modern specialists has only sectoral knowledge with the result the correlations and causative factors are overlooked.The modern gadgets picture theorgans as they are exisitng at the moment,but not beyond.The metabolism undergoes changes rapidly,one need to monitor that very carefully.The ancient knowledge of helping our body to rectify itself had been given a go by.Iam happy there are many who are now eveincing interests in alternative medicines and the WHO has started recongnising it.Similarly we must start recongnising the need to have alternative knowledge,an holistic one,and we must free our minds from the shackels of Maculays educational syatem.If we are keen to prevent the total eradication of our ancient knowldge in the era of globalisation,we must then wake up.We must change our educational syatem.A student of Arts,Science or Commerce or management should be able to be creative should know basic medical sciences,must be familiar with music and arts and should be able to keep his body and mind healthy by yoga and physical exercises.All of us should make efforts to change our syatem.Lets do it

Thought of the Day...

Thought of the Day...
The great historic event in the 21st century seems to be the emergence of a new global order. This order is nothing but re-inventing the wheel. In a way, it is the resurrection of the capitalist mode of production and marketing. Ever since the Industrial Rev took place in the 19th Century, wherein the production became the Watchword, in the era of globalization in this century, marketing became the sought-out mantra. While maritime powers during the 15th and 16th century vied for colonial possessions, the 21st century is witnessing capitalist colonialism in which the economically powerful nations are coming to divide and dissect our regions. If we do not wake up now and going to be intoxicated with the Ambrosia of Consumerism, we would end up living in lotus-eater's paradise and we would be overtaken by events, neglected, side-lined, exploited and ultimately would be subjected to the tyranny of the economically dominant powers. Are you still asleep?? Wake up!!