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.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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.