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Nightmarish Product Services: Suffering Indian Consumers

Posted on July 20, 2009 by indra

Last week when Mr. Rai was narrating the story of the amount of trouble he faced with the repair of their Sony TV, I couldn’t appreciate it. When Grover of my neighbourhood enquired if I knew someone who could repair … Continue reading →

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School Education: Make It Attractive

Posted on July 17, 2009 by indra

The main task for the education managers will be to correct and create conducive conditions in rural India on priority for universalizing education. Many times, it appears as a hopeless lost case with irresponsible teachers and the corrupt state bureaucracy … Continue reading →

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Education: Autonomy, Sibal, and Suicide News from IIT

Posted on July 16, 2009 by indra

This was a bad morning. I went through a bad news from my IIT, Kharagpur on the website of Telegraph, Kolkata. “Yogendra Kumar Singh, 18, a resident of Noida, a first-year student of IIT Kharagpur, committed suicide. According to the … Continue reading →

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Obama and Man Mohan- Mismatch in Priorities

Posted on July 15, 2009 by indra

Man Mohan has gone confident. He is behaving as a true prime minister out of the shadow of Sonia Gandhi. However, are his priorities to visit Italy to attend G-8 and then Paris and Egypt instead of concentrating on domestic … Continue reading →

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Education: Rural India Deserves Innovation from Sibal

Posted on July 13, 2009 by indra

Unfortunately, Sibal’s education reform agenda appear to fall sort of being realistic one so far the education problems in rural India is concerned. As perquisite of success, the ignorant parents who are in majority in remote rural area require to … Continue reading →

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My Blogs, My Writings

Posted on July 11, 2009 by indra

It is almost five years that I am regularly posting my views through informative inputs on drishtikona.com. This is the only activity that keeps me busy. I can only say that as usual I am honest to this work too. … Continue reading →

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Higher education: Shining or Messy

Posted on July 10, 2009 by indra

Many times I get greatly impressed while glancing through the newspapers and magazines. Many private educational institutes and universities for higher education are spending huge money on ads. Quite a few such as Amity go for full-page ads. News magazines … Continue reading →

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Power Outages -My Solutions

Posted on July 9, 2009 by indra

Karan Thapar wrote a column on power outages in New Delhi. I don’t know why it took so long for him to write on the subject that since decades has been of the top most national importance. It reminded me … Continue reading →

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Education’s Trauma- My Experience

Posted on July 8, 2009 by indra

Education, sometimes, becomes a trauma for a student as well as parents. The student doesn’t get interest in the subject taught. The student hardly learns the subject. Mostly it is because of the way subject is taught. But the student … Continue reading →