May
26
This month of school exam results/IIT entrance test results!
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This middle class obsession must be moderated! Education is all about finding out about own personality and developing the same! Let the government introduce a one year of national social service! A gap year before students enter college would make a great deal of change in the Indian education. Indian education has done much good [...]
May
26
Reading Stanley Wolpert’s Gandhi
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Both insightful and also depressing! Stanley Wolpert is a distinguished professor and scholar and had written some of the more in-depth books on Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah. All these three figures have shaped the destinies of the Indian subcontinent. So, wolpert’s three books have become classics and anyone interested in India [...]
May
26
TV channels overdid their jobs! They played up the youth victory theme rather too far and too unbalanced way! Who are these youths are? They are neither from the poor or the middle classes. They are from the privileged families. Let us see what this means for the emergence and the evolution of democracy in [...]