Being an officer in the A.P. administrative machinery, I had the opportunity to visit all the districts of united A.P. except Adilabad. Although I have worked mostly in the coastal districts, I could visit all the districts in Telangana for some inspection or the other. In my 27 years of service in the welfare departments only Adilabad district had remained out of bounds for me.
For a long time I had wanted to visit Kolkata, a city about which I have read a lot, heard and thought a lot. From the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Bibhuti Bhushan, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sarat Chandra, from the films of Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen i had a few notions in my head. I have been an ardent admirer of the intellectual spirit of this city. Bengal; the cradle of Indian renaissance, the land of pioneering reform, the place from where the flames of freedom fanned across India, the land of intellectuals, reformers and patriots, I wanted to be
This time at invoked 4.0 I was pleasantly surprised to be interviewed by two kids from the US; Ariel and Ellis. They were doing a series of sessions with the panel speakers, guests and educationists on the importance of leadership. The questions were not rehearsed. Hence my answers were nearly impromptu. The first question about leadership gave me thoughts about what is it that makes a leader?
Being shipwrecked on a remote, uninhabited island in the 18th century. Communication is non-existent. There is no hope of rescue. The wreck is the only source of supplies but there is the green tropical island full of Nature’s bounty. This is the age of enlightenment, the age of discovery. An age which believes in the…
It is welcome to be having a feeling of déjà vu now and then. After my childhood of 2 years in Cochin some 50 years ago, I could visit Kerala again. It is Sun and rain which alternate in nearly symmetrical patterns that make me enthusiastic. Far from a land that knows only one season, Summer; I’m in Kerala at that time of the year when the monsoon is active.
A protagonist who is the epitome of vice From 18th century England, Daniel Defoe portrays the character of a woman who is born destitute and poor, who is wronged by fate but crafts her way in the world to establish herself as the epitome of vice. She is the angel of wickedness, deceit, lure and…
I read two novels back to back; Persuasion by Jane Austen. Miles apart from Persuasion; shorn of convention, vehemently personal and intimate, anti-establishmentarian, exuberant and seminal, looking for that ultimate epiphanous blast in a vortex of sex, booze and drugs; necessary perhaps to disembowel and disrobe yourself, to get engrossed in Life’s simple mysteries, to…
What is Leadership? How do you experience leadership, especially in Education? A leader, by any wide definition of the term, has to lead. The leading has to be towards the implementation, execution, and realization of an aim, objective, target, or goal. Since the dawn of humanity, the issue of leadership and the debate as to why some people become leaders while others cannot has been complex and addressed by philosophers, thinkers, theorists, and strategists alike.
A reflection on Bulgakov’s celebrated novel and the strange, satirical world in which the magical and the political continually disturb one another.
I had gone to Gudisa to watch the sunrise, but what unfolded before me was far more than I had expected. As the dark sky cleared, the hills, clouds and vast grasslands slowly came alive in colours that left me amazed and dazed.