Whatever may be the impact of globalization, it has created certain ‘look-alikes’ all over the world, despite the fact that the nations the world over could still be divided into developed and developing and underdeveloped countries. What used to be the monopoly of the rich and the upper middleclass are no longer so. Apart from …
Month: August 2010
Sugarcane… Can we expect a bumper crop next year?
If you happen to visit a wayside restaurant or rather, a tea shop in a small town in India at any time, you get accustomed to certain code words. Even as you sip your coffee or tea, three or four persons enter together, with one of them ordering, “Two by three†or “three by fourâ€. …
Medium of instruction
Speaking at the graduation day function, the other day the vice chancellor of an university in South India emphasized that the medium of instruction should be one’s mother toungue and that alone can “make a man into a good citizen”! Instead, if he had said that it would be easier for a student to understand …
Rain or shine, the caravan has to move on
There is nothing unusual about it. During July-August, the rain reigns supreme, but in a place like Ooty, it is depressing. Unlike the summer rains which come and go, the monsoon rains are on a marathon race. Even if they are tired, at times, they keep the sun at a safe distance. This year it …