Category Archives: education

Sibal has become the darling of media. As many surveys show, the countrymen expects him to succeed to reform the education sector that has remained prisoner under some very biased ministers for almost a decade or more. Here are some … Continue reading →

A story quoted by Amartya Sen in his just published book The Idea of Justice has become very popular. It first came to me from my poet friend Pravat Pandey from Kolkata. I didn’t have the book by the time. … Continue reading →

I know Gehlot, an alumnus of Roorkee Engineering College for some time now. He retired from UP’s PWD after serving as chief engineer. Gehlot and five others have established a trust that has set up an institute of higher education … Continue reading →

Kapil Sibal is the most vocal and visible face of UPA-II in media today. This advocate-turned-education-reformer wishes to undo all the decades old wrongs in India’s education. If Kapil Sibal is to be believed, none will have any grievance about … Continue reading →

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill hopes to cover the 10 crore children between the ages of six and 14 who are out of school through a neighbourhood school. How will this neighbourhood schools look like? … Continue reading →

Years ago during my Presidency College days, I had heard an anecdote about a professor in Calcutta. Prof Ladli Mohan Mitra was a very reputed professor of chemistry in one of colleges in Calcutta. He had a textbook on chemistry … Continue reading →

Pandey and I were in IIT, Kharagpur on the same day in 1957 for final interview to get the department of our choice. While I was with my grandfather, Pandey was with his father. Both the elderly persons were in … Continue reading →

Human development is a basic necessity, and need not be only through formal education system. If I look back down the memory lane, I find many instances of informal human development. In my village, I had come across an old … Continue reading →