Brown Motion

 My dentist chronicles alone can fill pages of a book.  Below some thoughts I have when I visit with this profession. I need to.  My addiction to things containing a complex carbon, hydrogen and oxygen compound commonly referred to as Sugar is the reason. That combined with a lifestyle that did not exactly pride itself in flossing and brushing twice a day.  This was late 20th century Bombay.  I am not sure which middle class kids knew what a floss was. Any rate the architecture shows signs of decay. Literally.  Plaque - that layer of bacterium that develops absent a rigorous cleaning schedule dents into the protective hard shell called enamel. At least that is what this professional I visit wants me to believe.  Apparently my alcohol consumption needs to go up I thought.  After all it is a disinfectant no? I could swirl more as I gulp?   I visit a new office (yeah that is what the profession calls their operations - dental office) here. ...

 What is the fascination people have with knowing who retires when?  And then more bizarre is to track what happens after.  As in watch the person unretire from their retirement. Recent news is similar to lot of people in the sports industry before them. Tom Brady in American Football (which involves no use of foot to engage with the ball). Ashleigh Barty in Australian Women's Tennis who announced she will retire at age 25. Brady realizing he had not saved enough money apparently decided he needed more and did a U turn in less than a month to say - his family was crazy and he did not want any time with them after all. Just kidding.  While he has more money than god there must be some sort of calculus that he cannot rid himself from a sport he spent decades playing. But what of it? People hold certain individuals to hero status that everything he or she does gets scrutinized and discussed and sold.  I guess the ones profiting from this foible are the media machin...

 This title alone harkens to tomes written about the topic.  I am going to attempt to focus on a slice.  Education in India. As someone who grew up in this erstwhile British colony; an erstwhile Mughal empire; and many ersts before it I find it fascinating to see the changes that have occurred in the realm of education. India became independent of foreign rule in 1947. It adopted a socialist, democratic operating model and has been attempting its foray into the industrial world since. Not quite 80 years into her experiment it also finds itself in an unenviable situation of having to support over a billion hungry people. Having received my entire formal education in India - what that means in practical terms in another blog - all the way from kindergarten to a master's degree in business; I still struggle to understand whether as a nation she is able to make the most of her educational infrastructure. Perhaps the question is better framed as - does India have the right edu...