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  1. `Crack’-ing IIT. And life?

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    / May 25, 2011 / 3 Comments
    I didn’t quite know how to react, so I was smiling. The father of the boy who had stood fourth in the IIT-JEE merit list was saying, he and his son were disappointed. All mock exams and other performance-indicators had suggested that he would make it to the top of...

  2. The future of education

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    / May 25, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By V Desikan   The recent remarks of Mr. Jairam Ramesh on the quality of teaching at IIT/IIMs seem to have invited lot of criticism.  While I hold no strong opinion on the subject, I fully agree with Prof Sugata Mitra’s findings that “learning just happens”.    If you can...

  3. Never a mess

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    / April 19, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By V Desikan   In 1965, I received admission for an engineering course at the Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai. MIT then, was famous for two things – great teachers and the Unni Mess. My first day at the Birla hostel was quite exciting. I got up early, dressed well...

  4. Admissions to schools only in April

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    / March 7, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Looking to admit your child in a non-CBSE, non-ICSE school in Karnataka? The department of public instructions in the state has asked all primary and high schools to strictly begin admission process from April when the new academic year begins.  Admissions completed before April will be considered illegal. This of...

  5. Distinguished Alumnus

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    / February 14, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By V Desikan   January 30, 2011, was a red letter day in my life. It was the Golden jubilee school reunion of the 1961 SSLC batch students of our school located in Chennai, that is 105 years old now and I am one of its proud students.   Meeting...

  6. Are we Indians orphans?

    Posted by Karrthikeya
    / January 31, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Karrthikeya   My sister went to the US in July last year to pursue her postgraduate course in Tri-Valley University. She has always been a meritorious student. She got admission in Kentucky University as well. But she chose Tri-Valley because one of my friends had earlier been there.   It...

  7. No `monitoring’ US

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    / January 29, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir No arguments, it is an unequal world. Two unrelated events. Here was the footage of students from India forced to wear a radio frequency tag, a monitoring badge on their leg after being interrogated by the US authorities, because they should not slip away. Even as I...

  8. `Celebrating’ Republic Day

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    / January 25, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Isidore Phillips It is that time of the year when you will find young boys and girls peddling the national flag to you at every traffic junction. What do we do? Sometimes we shell out that 5 or 10 rupees, whatever it costs to buy the national flag. Most...
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    Tagged child rights, national flag, republic day

  9. Ouch!!

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    / January 11, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By S V L Narayan   Today it is tragic to read that so many young lives are affected by the so-called corporal punishment meted out on supposedly errant students by teachers at school.   Have the teachers become more sadistic or the students and parents over sensitive? I am...

  10. Sorry, Santa Claus won’t help

    Posted by Gita Karan
    / December 6, 2010 / Leave a comment
    By Gita Karan2010 is coming to a close. This year, in an unusual decision, we have decided to forego the Christmas vacation, wiser from our experience in the previous academic year when frequent bandhs over the statehood to Telangana issue robbed us of many working days. And to make up...

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