Category Archives: education

BJP’s Self-damaging Opposition to Education Reform

Posted on June 27, 2009 by indra

BJP has started with a wrong step. Why should BJP president depute Murli Manohar for reacting to the 100 day plan of Sibal, the education minister? Does he not know that Murli Manohar was hated in academic circle? Why can’t … Continue reading →

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Educating in Australia- Fad or Necessity

Posted on June 2, 2009 by indra

The stories of assaults on Indian students in Australia did shock me like many. I have a neighbor, Grover here in Noida whose both sons have studied and now working in Australia. While the elder is married, the younger is … Continue reading →

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IIT -The Dream Destination of Young India

Posted on May 27, 2009 by indra

Noida, Monday, May 25, 10 PM: I normally go to bed by this time. But it had started raining and as usual the power had gone off. Yamuna asked me to check if I had locked the main gate. As … Continue reading →

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Nation’s Priority Number 1: Education

Posted on May 17, 2009 by indra

I felt happy when Kapil Sibal talked of education reform as priority on NDTV on May 17, the V-Day of Congress party that has been liberated by the people verdict of election 2009 while answering NK Singh. India boasts of … Continue reading →

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Vedic Mathematics to Vedic Management

Posted on February 8, 2009 by indra

I understand Dr. S Kannan, a Chennai-based Chartered Accountant, has written a new book ‘Vedic Management’. I had known only Vedic mathematics. One of my old friends, MK Sharma demonstrated once the ease with which one can solve big arithmetical … Continue reading →

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ISB vs. IIMs

Posted on January 29, 2009 by indra

As reported, ‘for the second year in a row, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad has been the only Indian management institute that has made it to the ‘Financial Times Global MBA Ranking’ of the top 100 B-schools across the world’. … Continue reading →

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Real Knowledge through Virtual Class

Posted on December 11, 2008 by indra

Many new experiments for the development are going on simultaneously in many parts of the country. It was surprisingly pleasing to know that Bihar’s silicon campus is the first of its kind in the country-courtesy the National Informatics Centre (NIC) … Continue reading →

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Stanford- A Bookstore Tells Global Ranking

Posted on November 16, 2008 by indra

Stanford is one place Anand loves to visit whenever, he gets opportunity. May be, he has a wish unfulfilled to be its students, or may it is because of his love for the bookstore in the university campus open to … Continue reading →

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A Visit to a US Elementary School

Posted on November 11, 2008 by indra

  It was Sunday, October 19. Alpana and Rakesh had invited us to join them in a carnival with their kids. Montair Elementary School, the public school of Keshav and Anvita in San Ramon had organized it for fund raising … Continue reading →

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IIMs-Are They The Best?

Posted on November 7, 2008 by indra

RC Bharagava has recently made certain very relevant remarks about what and how IIMs are manufacturing management graduates. IIMs attract the best brains of India that include engineers, doctors, accountants, arts, science, and commerce graduates and even some from those … Continue reading →

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