I can't watch our private news channels for more than a few minutes without getting bored and irritated. However, I found myself watching the interview Doordarshan had with Chidambaram on a private channel. I had to suffer the panels and flashing messages - I wish I could use gnome3 on these channels and hide the very irritating distractions.
Anyway, it was a pleasant change to see a half hour of reasonable conversation instead of screaming, embarrassingly stupid comparisons, or just simplistic statements.
Why do our existing cases take so long to resolve? Is investigation of murder, violence less important than corruption? Or will all crimes disappear once we catch a few corrupt? In fact, simpler social issues like divorce, property disputes, probably cause more pain and anxiety to many, many people. Do they not deserve a reasonably quick resolution? If corruption cases are fast-tracked, would the resolution of the others not get further delayed. Isn't it obvious that not the laws but it is the delivery of justice which needs repair.
In fact, I find it ironic that the "biggest scam" of India - the 2G scam - has probably made more people's lives far better than anything else in India! It is amazing to see the impact of cell phones on India - especially, the non-affluent, e.g. the rickshaw pullers, the vegetable hawkers, the plumbers. The list goes on.
How do we make sense of our world? This is a project which some day I hope to explore:
Anyway, it was a pleasant change to see a half hour of reasonable conversation instead of screaming, embarrassingly stupid comparisons, or just simplistic statements.
Hang the corrupt. Each rupee will be worth 50 dollars when the black money abroad is brought back to India. Corruption cases must be investigated and actioned within x months. Etc., etc.
Why do our existing cases take so long to resolve? Is investigation of murder, violence less important than corruption? Or will all crimes disappear once we catch a few corrupt? In fact, simpler social issues like divorce, property disputes, probably cause more pain and anxiety to many, many people. Do they not deserve a reasonably quick resolution? If corruption cases are fast-tracked, would the resolution of the others not get further delayed. Isn't it obvious that not the laws but it is the delivery of justice which needs repair.
In fact, I find it ironic that the "biggest scam" of India - the 2G scam - has probably made more people's lives far better than anything else in India! It is amazing to see the impact of cell phones on India - especially, the non-affluent, e.g. the rickshaw pullers, the vegetable hawkers, the plumbers. The list goes on.
How do we make sense of our world? This is a project which some day I hope to explore:
The overall goal of this 4-5 year project is to create tools that will help learners (at all levels) make greater sense of complex phenomena and to study how learners come to understand complexity. Complexity is the study of systems in which phenomena or global behaviors arise from the interactions of simpler parts. ...
They all exhibit non-linear or emergent qualities which place them beyond the scope of current K-12 mathematics curricula. Complexity is a theme that cuts across traditional discipline boundaries. Yet it is rarely found as an explicit theme in K-16 curricula. Indeed, many studies have shown that, in both the public at large and in science classrooms, "good thinking" about systems of interacting agents is not easily found.I really have to try NetLogo. May be that will help understand why the interactions between not so smart people makes democracy work.
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