Education without entrance examinations
India’s entrance exam regime has grown into a parallel economy, draining families and destroying young lives.
India’s entrance exam regime has grown into a parallel economy, draining families and destroying young lives.
In a healthy democracy, student activism has always been a vital force - a crucible where ideas are sharpened , injustices challenged, and futures forged.
Vikram-1 reaching orbit marks an important transition in India’s space journey.
The latest Republican US budget package is about far more than allocating another $95 billion in federal spending.
Indian administration has always had a fantastic worldwide reputation. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel once referred to our civil services as the “steel frame” of the nation.
For decades, the United States projected itself as the world’s foremost defender of rules-based governance.
India’s inflation numbers are beginning to tell two very different stories. One is reassuring.
On the second of February 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay compressed an empire’s educational ambition into a single sentence: “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia”. The line is often quoted as insult, and it was one.
Empires were once forged in iron and fuelled by coal; today, they may fracture over elements most people cannot spell.
On 19 February, as India celebrated the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, a wooden sailing vessel named INSV Kaundinya was completing a remarkable voyage across the Arabian Sea to Oman.
