Three Cheers for Pakistan
But, like the English language, the shadow of cricket is larger than the substance. What matters least engages us the most. The school boy is a victim of Uncle Chips, the college girl of Macdonalds, the urban family of Coke & Pepsi and the two impoverished economies of cricket. READ
Full Day School: Fuller life for children
The formal school mechanism has higher objectives to achieve. It is a laboratory for children to grow into adults. The teacher needs to move away from being a mere tutor. Teacher becomes a demonstrator and facilitator in this process of grooming. These higher goals are sacrificed and mercilessly butchered at the altar of grades and marks.READ
In Search of Congress in Goa
Do you see it anywhere? As for me, the Congress is invisible, the NCP & MGP nowhere and the BJP is crumbling.READ
To Desmond with love
But, certainly, the judges need lessons in human relations and public honour. Your Honour should know that every upright individual is honourable with or without the black robes.READ
Vision 2035---One more sermon
Putting a limit and saying enough to need as well as to greed comes spontaneously to a Goan. READ
Speaker Sir, Do not lash the Whip
The recent direction by the Speaker of the Goa Assembly to the three MLAs would not establish a precedent. At the most, it could be buried as an exception.READ
Municipal Reservations: Positive Disequilibrium
Some seating councillors have lost the eligibility to contest from the ward they represented. Calculations of some have gone awry. They can smell the probable transfer of power to a new set of totally unheard persons. Like school students sensing poor performance at examinations, they are blaming that the questions in the examinations are beyond the scope of syllabus.READ
Ayodhya Verdict: Questionable Doctrines
The verdict of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court dumped in cold storage the main issue of title to the disputed properties. It looked as if the Court took a non-adversarial and friendly approach.........READ
Delinquency & Indiscipline without remorse
Our political leadership has without a shadow of doubt demonstrated to us that we should be accommodative to any nonsense.READ