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It is an honour and a privilege to be invited to deliver this memorial lecture in honour of Prabhash Joshi and before such a distinguished audience. As a category, journalists invariably associate themselves with the intellectual class. They write to be read by the public, in contrast to academics, who write to be read by […]
Smart farmers the world over have steadily been losing interest in growing crops with chemicals and poisonous pesticides. Consumers are also contributing to the change by demanding food that is organically grown (without toxic pesticide residues). Everywhere in the country, the interest in organic agriculture has risen so rapidly that agriculture departments are finding it […]
There has been no fundamental change in the structure of teaching and research at universities all over the world since the first university of the western world was set up at Bologna around the year 1155 (CE). Our universities today are all based on the western pattern, since these institutions were installed during the period […]
The issue that bothers me most about the present election is the absence of a vision among most of the candidates and parties about where Goa should go. Despite this gross deficiency, they will now descend on us for our votes. Most parties promise us only more of the same: more jobs, more development. None […]
“The State of Goa is unique in having diverse ecosystems, the montane/hill ecosystems, the riparian ecosystems, the wetlands, the estuarine ecosystem, the stagnant water bodies and marine ecosystem within distance of 50 km all of which are linked. In other words, State of Goa has highest ecological integrity and unique hottest hotspot within the Western […]
I have been waiting to do this for some time now. There’s this remarkable new book, Jeevani (Ayurveda for Women) written by Dr P.L.T. Girija, who also runs a clinic in Chennai where she proves daily how an understanding of the holistic theory of health promoted by Ayurveda can free people, especially women and their […]
For the past ten years now, Goa has been almost in a permanent state of war. There have been regular invading armies and conquests, mostly originating out of Delhi, or Mumbai, or even Haryana and other places, each biting off slices of Goan villages, and the Goa government has in every conceivable case, gone all […]
The naturally well-endowed state of Goa occupies less than 1% of India’s landmass. Yet the charm of the place and the hospitable nature of its local inhabitants now draw some 3-4 million people to come by and visit. Nothing of that awesome handsomeness has been constructed by any government. Almost all of it has come […]
There are not that many ways to stun the world, but the Goa government succeeded in doing precisely that last week. To the consternation of all those who have visited this tourist destination crammed with nothing less than 4 million coconut palms, the Goa government amended the Goa Preservation of Trees Act to remove the […]
The debate surrounding the relevance of the presently holding paradigm of the university, its functions and its fairly conventional and predictable curriculum of studies (almost all of it imported, together with its exotic assumptions, from Europe and the US) would have gone on without end — and for several decades more — were it not […]