Observing the interaction of communities with politics
By Maharshi Sanket There is a notion that the world is the way it is. However I firmly believe we can change it. This global crisis which everybody is bearing the brunt of is a message loud and clear. It clearly indicates that our present systems do not seem to work very well when tested by a global crisis like this one. We need to … Continue reading Rethinking and reimagining a world with different systems
Independent thinking and doing while also finding avenues to connect and collaborate is needed in education. By Maharshi Sanket Education can change a lot in the world. However, I believe its ability to make a difference in the world is conditional. Education should be defined individually. By leaving the process of defining education to the whole community, we end up promoting singularity and not independent … Continue reading Education should break walls not make them
By May East, CEO Gaia Education Excerpts of a talk during the UN High-Level Meeting on Education ‘No really creative transformation can possibly be effected by human beings … unless they are in the creative state of mind that is generally sensitive to the differences that always exist between the observed fact and any preconceived ideas, however noble, beautiful, and magnificent they may seem to … Continue reading Lighting the fire of a regenerative imagination
When Andhra CM Jaganmohan Reddy announced liquor prohibition, India’s opinion-shapers again called it an intrusion. But few know the havoc liquor is wreaking. By Yogendra Yadav, national president-Swaraj India The Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy-led government’s decision to introduce prohibition in Andhra Pradesh has once again exposed an ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude of our opinion shapers. By and large, they maintain a conspiracy of silence on the nation-wide menace … Continue reading Urban India’s opposition to alcohol prohibition shows its ostrich-like & elitist attitude
