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.
An election does not lose credibility in a single moment. It erodes gradually ~ through procedural choices, administrative discretion, and the cumulative effect of opacity.
In India’s industrial imagination, small manufacturing clusters are often celebrated as engines of resilience - nimble, labour-intensive, and deeply rooted in local economies.
The first lesson from economics, appearing at the beginning of Nobel Laureate Paul A Samuelson’s magnum opus “Foundations of Economic Analysis” (1948), is that a country must choose between military spending ~ guns ~ and spending on social goods ~ butter.
Indian cities are experiencing not only escalating temperature, but also a growing demand for quick commerce as the summer intensifies.
It is about three and a half decades since Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) has left us. The appeal of the large body of his films remains undimmed in his native Bengal and in countries as different as US, France, and Iran.
