NRG Sam Pitroda on Indo-US relations(English mp3)
Satyanarayan Pitroda, better known as ‘Sam Pitroda’ is well-known among Delhi, Gujarat and Chicago’s Indian intellectual circle. Technocrat Sam came in a limelight with his intimate relationship with then prime minister of India Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. Nri Gujarati(NRG) Sam is well-known for his knowledge and work particularly in telecom field. He is one of the early birds from Gujarat who migrated to U.S. in 1960s.
Chairman of government of India’s National Knowledge commission, Sam has talked in his this speech about dimensions of Indo-America relationship from 1960s up to now. This speech is like a chapter of some book titled as ‘India-U.S. relationship 1960s-2006’. Speech was recorded by DeshGujarat in Ahmedabd’s Thakorbhai Desai auditorium.
Related reading: Sam Pitroda, National knowledge Commission of India’s official website, Wonderful article about Sam’s pet project c.dot’s journey in political roller coaster
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BJP sidelined Sam Pitroda for a long time.. We lost an opportunity to tap onto Sam’s knowledge and expertise.. Good that we are now forward looking and hopefully have him more involved
Pitroda says, BSNL should be privtised and he says English must be there from std. 1 in schools. Who will subscribe to such ideas ?
i fully stand behind the thought of having english from std.1
I am not agree with English from std.1 A Gujarati child should learn his mother language first. English can be started from fifth. We do not want to make confused generation by enforcing two languages on little mind.
I am fully agree with Mr. Ashok Shah, English from 5th is O.K., at least let the child understand his/her own language. The carrier should be strengthen inough to carry the load. Let the child’s base be clear before teaching him other langauage.
I think we should understand that a child is having enermous capacity to learn the things even more than men. We are ignoring it by saying that we are putting more burden by pushing the child to study two languages at a time. You can refer to any pediatrition & ask the learning capabilities of a child you will come to know the truth & myth will be vanished.
It will built the confidence in child & he will excell from the beginning rather than occupying more time at higher level of studies.
This is my sincere advice not to underestimate mind power, learning capabilities of a child. As per the studies, a child can learn 10 times faster then a 21 year old humanbeing & the reason is child is having blank paper (in terms of ideology, beliefs, fear, illusion, prejudice) which means there is no need to rub anything to put anything new.
I think what we need to change is our attitude which will decide our altitude.
Even you people might disagree with me on the above front but you will defenately agree on the point that we are finding our next generation very fast, sharp minded, & quite intelligent, it seems like they have started learning while they were in the process of their birth. If you compare our smartness of infancy with new generation they are far ahead of us.
So by not providing chance to them I think we are doing injustice to them.
Pls think on this…
Thank you for reading this comment.
I fully agree to Mr. Jaymin Shah .. well said ..