An original and balanced perspective on India s past, present, and future is presented in an engaging manner. Safe and Secure Payments. Better cities Just after independence, our leaders hated cities, for them, they were a symbol of colonial past. Nandan Nilekani returns as good cop but co is now a town that needs a tough makeover — News Paper. Detailed notes for reference and timeline of key events at the end of the book are resourceful.
Notify me of new posts by email. Whole book seems to be suffering from paralysis by analysis. I had to do a search on the exact title to find it on Amazon since the author names were wrongly listed. The book definitely talks about our indix hindrances in our development of the varna or caste system, illiteracy and many other dichotomies in our Indian life I believe the author spends more time with problems of technology and industry.
First of all it took around 10 days to reach since ordered. Major reforms in the early Nineties opened up the markets, reduced state influence and encouraged change from below. Even though we have an English-language based economy, a political education policy which tried to suppress English teaching in government schools destroyed the future of several, especially poor, children.
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Farmers who live in remote areas and lack adequate infrastructure nevertheless can visit a rural IT kiosk for critical information about market prices and weather patterns. Rather than seeing IT narrowly as another technological tool, however powerful, Nilekani sees its potential as an agent of democratization and enlightened public policy.
He is quick to warn that the stubborn social cleavages that historically have divided India—principally those of caste, language, region, and religion—will only widen and deepen unless the government addresses the urgent question of universal access to quality education. It is our schools that now delineate our class lines most prominently. The public university system, including its prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, is chronically underfunded.
Since the s, India has funded its schools but neglected schooling. The government has built infrastructure but has not funded needed teacher training, curriculum, effective teaching methods, and performance measurements. The poor are largely left behind. Growing discontent has led a significant number of poor families to send their children to private schools, but without vouchers, contends Nilekani, prospects for widespread progress remain severely limited.
In a massive initiative that would require as much political will as technological savvy, the government would issue biometric national ID cards to its 1. Author : Ronald B. Inden Publisher: C. Author : Sangit K.
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