10-20-2006, 06:58 PM
An advanced society should be able to provide a decent livelihood in a complete range of endeavours.
In last few decades, Indian society has found that technical and medical fields provide the best jobs. Recent explosion in call-centers etc have provided jobs for people who have good command of english etc. Journalism and tv-program creation also has become a decent payer due to the explosion of TV channels. Arts & humanities are still much below the technical branches in providing good jobs, but this imbalanace will diminish as Indian society gets richer and has more money and time to spare on other aspects of life.
That should happen in next couple of decades. We just need to make sure that when that explosion in humanities research emanates from India, it is not dominated by macaulites etc.
In last few decades, Indian society has found that technical and medical fields provide the best jobs. Recent explosion in call-centers etc have provided jobs for people who have good command of english etc. Journalism and tv-program creation also has become a decent payer due to the explosion of TV channels. Arts & humanities are still much below the technical branches in providing good jobs, but this imbalanace will diminish as Indian society gets richer and has more money and time to spare on other aspects of life.
That should happen in next couple of decades. We just need to make sure that when that explosion in humanities research emanates from India, it is not dominated by macaulites etc.