1. India and Bharat have to study together

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    The Supreme Court’s judgement upholding the constitutional validity of the Right to Education Act is a welcome decision. It means all schools except unaided minority institutions and boarding schools now will have to reserve 25 per cent seats for economically backward students. RTE aims at providing free and compulsory education...
  2. No volcano forms in a day

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    The news of a class IX student in Chennai stabbing his Hindi teacher to death has come as a shock to every one. But no volcano forms in a day. It is pent-up energy in the child in the form of frustration that he has given vent to. Child is...
  3. A salute to my teachers

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    How time flies. I still remember the day in 1955 when I entered my class in the First Form (VI standard) in the ground floor of the imposing P.S.High School building. I did not have to pay the modest fees as my father was a teacher there. It was just...
  4. Thanksgiving on Teachers’ Day

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    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan   What memory do I revive on teacher’s day? Do I revive the one on which we all learnt ‘Hajambo’ from the Kenya-returned Ms. Phil (which is ‘Hello’ in Swahili), and used it immediately (all forty of us together) on the amply endowed Ms. Pereira who...

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