RECENT  EVENTS   IN  INDIA                                Innaugaration of the new parliament house was done on May 28, 2023. It  looked like coronation of a king in the traditional form. A group of religious priests passed a Scepter-like object to  prime minister Narendra Modi who performed some rituals and then  sought blessings from the religious saints at the end. The whole ceremony did not suit the  democratic republic that India has been under the constitution. It also belied the secular  form of the national government.                 Another ugly scene was that of some female wrestlers, who were protesting against sexual abuse,...

                                            INDIA;  THE MOST  POPULOUS  COUNTRY                  India has just become the most populous country in the world, surpassing China. India's population is now nearly 1.43 billion. India will have the largest working-age  population in the world. The prolem is that not all our working-age people are in fact   workers. Women are woefully undererepresented in the labor force with just 19 percent  of them in jobs. Last year, 12.5 million Indians applied for just 35,000 rail jobs. The  problem is that our young people are undereducated. A boom in dubious, fly-by-night  colleges has produced  a generation saddled with "worthless degrees" that confer  "limited or no skills." With skilled workers making up 24 percent of ...