Friday, June 27, 2014

Neoliberal education, and its likely future

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The Statesman of Calcutta recently carried a deeply disturbing essay written by a former professor at Gokhale Institute, Pune (one of tho...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Others and us

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I love to see that other people are thinking the same way I do about matters close to my heart. Here’s an article by Jug Suraiya in The T...
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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Tough steps in the offing?

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Good to hear that the new PM has announced/threatened early in his tenure that the people will have to put up with some ‘tough decisions’...
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Monday, June 09, 2014

Where are the teachers?

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Only last year we heard Manmohan Singh bemoaning the fact that not one of India’s institutes of so-called higher learning ranks among the ...
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Saturday, May 31, 2014

A holiday long overdue

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All through May I just slogged, slept, followed the unavoidable election mania and survived. Then on the 23 rd I left for Kolkata. From S...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Patriotism? pshaw!

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Patriotism seems to be the flavour of the season, now that we have got a ‘nationalist’ prime minister. What kind of patriotic upsurge shou...
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Friday, May 16, 2014

Dawn of a new era?

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The people have spoken, and more decisively than for a long time in the recent past. Here are a few off-the-cuff observations, entirel...
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Thursday, May 08, 2014

It's hard to be a father!

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‘When does a dad go wrong? And when he does, can he ever forgive himself?’ So I wrote in a post here four years ago, recalling an inc...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

shudhu asha jawa, or aller et venir continuel

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I teach very serious things very seriously from day one of my classes with every batch: by personal example, as much as is within my power...
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Summer of 2014

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I recently got my house painted, after ages. That's a picture above. Must say it looks fresh and cheerful. Summer has set in in...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Dark days ahead

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Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grandson of the Mahatma, a retired senior civil servant and ex-governor of West Bengal, an erudite man whom I respect...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

TMD status update

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(signing Arnab Chakraborty's copy of TMD for him because he insisted. And he sent me the photo :) ) I am pleasantly surprised by...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

To My Daughter in print

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Some people have lots of books inside them, some have just one. I have written a great deal of stuff since my writing was first publis...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Students looking back...

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I get strange messages via email every now and then. The following is something that someone from the ICSE 1991 batch, a woman, wrote...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Life is but a dream

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On this day, one year ago, I wrote about grace . Today, I recall the Bard's immortal words: 'some there be that shadows kiss/ ...
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Friday, March 07, 2014

My daughter's new blogpost, etc

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My daughter has written a post on her blog describing things that annoy her about living in India. Made me sad, but I can hardly argue wit...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Two different kinds of book

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I read J.K. Rowling’s debut detective novel The Cuckoo’s Calling, and wasn’t too impressed. Yes, she has introduced a new kind of private...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Happy hour

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Ankan (Saha), a very favourite old boy, came visiting yesterday. His classmate and one-time batchmate Raunak Chandak the budding businessm...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Love is a bore

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Look this up in today's edition of Anandabazar Patrika, all my Bengali readers. There is a reason why I put this up here instead of ...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

Musing over the weekend

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                                       ( the road from Ilambazar to Shantiniketan. My local favourite ) Winter is going away too fast...
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Monday, February 03, 2014

Is there going to be a 'Great Leap'?

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Rajdeep sent me this link all the way from Japan. He has noticed – as I hope some others have, too – that I have been writing in the sam...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The trouble with being well-off

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This recent article in The American Scholar caught my eye and made me ponder. I am rather surprised at the title, though, because it see...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

New Year's tidings

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‘… and the new sun rose, bringing the New Year’. So it’s a new year again. I try to make fresh new beginnings every time, and thi...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

That's it!

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We are nearing the end of the year now, and this is my 52 nd post of the year. Also, I have been writing non-stop, at a steady rate, for ...
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