A column written by Admiral Arun Prakash for ThePrint sparked a debate with Pakistani Air Commodore M. Kaiser Tufail. Here's the exchange between the two.
Driving an electric vehicle for months, the Hyundai IONIQ5, BMW iX and now the Kia Carens Clavis electric, has convinced me of the viability of EVs for city and mid-range commutes.
With the US-India trade deal yet to get done, rupee depreciation may be helping to mitigate India’s loss of competitiveness. The other problem is extreme despondence among overseas equity investors.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
Every vocation has its uniqueness and this university brings has its strategic value however it has to collaborate with various other institutions to be successful. That is the key.
Indian university education has might have taught how to build dam, but policy decisions are left to bureaucracy and politics. Had there been studies on dams of all sizes and shared across country for study share best practices and greater learning. These are necessary.
Former RBI governors have said that India lacks qualified macro economics though lakhs of post graduates are produced..
We need engineering universities who can undertake R&D and not these liberal arts think tankies who write articles by hour and leech on public money. Better to not have anything if the aim is to develop a ‘strategic culture/thinking’.
University needs to impart education and not training. Police, Civil Service and Defence academies already impart training. No need to duplicate them. Aim should not be to teach but enable learning. Any one with out a PhD should be barred from faculty, even if a military or civil service officer. Faculty to publish articles and books in international journals like Routledge to renew their contract.
Every vocation has its uniqueness and this university brings has its strategic value however it has to collaborate with various other institutions to be successful. That is the key.
Indian university education has might have taught how to build dam, but policy decisions are left to bureaucracy and politics. Had there been studies on dams of all sizes and shared across country for study share best practices and greater learning. These are necessary.
Former RBI governors have said that India lacks qualified macro economics though lakhs of post graduates are produced..
What about a dedicated sniper school ? NONE YET …What a tragedy ?
We need engineering universities who can undertake R&D and not these liberal arts think tankies who write articles by hour and leech on public money. Better to not have anything if the aim is to develop a ‘strategic culture/thinking’.
University needs to impart education and not training. Police, Civil Service and Defence academies already impart training. No need to duplicate them. Aim should not be to teach but enable learning. Any one with out a PhD should be barred from faculty, even if a military or civil service officer. Faculty to publish articles and books in international journals like Routledge to renew their contract.