The bigger question the Karnataka verdict poses to us is: in the emerging disruptive trend of India’s democracy does voter choice matter at all?
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. – Aristotle
An ‘outer shell’ approach to setting the affairs of the Mumbai University right can have larger lessons for India’s public universities.
Can Panchayats truly be considered “self-governing institutions”? Has the spirit of decentralisation taken a deep root in the democratic spaces of India?
A Karnataka victory would go into the account of Rahul Gandhi whose credentials as a leader would get strengthened and accepted by his friends and foes alike. On the other hand, a failure of the BJP in Karnataka would damage Narendra Modi’s USP.
The ultimate solution would be internal talks, when the moderates overshadow the hardliners. By then, it would have led to many young lives wasted.
In the game of political chess, Modi-Shah combine has many cards up their sleeves that have the potential of derailing the unity efforts.
The big idea that has got lost in all debates in the financial sector is the consumer. Refocussing the regulatory objective on bringing the consumer back in the centre of the regulatory architecture rather than on ownership and control would help.
A sustained and coordinated bottom-up approach that does not look for quick fix solutions can improve the school education system.
Political knee-jerks are easy to play with — a loan waiver here, an extension of farming permission there, a rise in procurement prices looming and so on. But finally, to fix the agriculture problem, what’s needed is a new approach to the sector.
Siranush Melikyan is an Assistant Professor at the Yerevan State University. ...
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Tigran Yepremyan is the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and an Associate Professor of World History and IR at the Yerevan State University, Armenia. ...
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