“WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC”
This is a statement from the preamble of our constitution.By this our country is secularist which means there is no preference to any religion.
Todays newspapers came out with a news that Justice.Rajendrababu commission advised the govt. to raise the creamylayer limit of backward communities...
There’s an old adage that goes something like “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool rather than open it and remove all doubt.” By Mark Twain. That reminds me of an article I read in Rediff the other day (read it here), which had a CEO of an Indian IT firm, HCL Technologies saying that American Tech grads are pretty much unemployable! Yup…He said that when he was in the US, in the vicinity...
“Students please take down the notes…. blah blah blah blah…… never ending blah….”
This is how classes are conducted in a very very famous and reputed private engineering college in Kerala. Students are forced to take down notes, as if it were a primary school. Notes have to be submitted on a monthly basis to be verified by the teacher.
There are weekly assignments for students. Students are not allowed to write the...
After the land slide victory by the congress in the recent Lok Sabha elections, the Catholic Church is claiming that its their efforts against communism that made this victory possible for the congress. I believe that the communist party dug their own grave with all the infighting and the Pinarayi factor. Anyways, thats material for another post, and a debatable one too.
While having a discussion about this, I opened one of my...
Today I was listening to an orientation class by MAD and there was a mention that MAD follows an open class policy. In an open class, the student is free to walk out of the class room if its not interesting enough.
MAD is the coolest NGO in India and they teach English and Computers to kids in orphanages. They are driven by passion and a desire to Make A Difference. The open class policy is used by MAD as a parameter to evaluate...
I came home today evening to see a horrible news on TV. 11 year old school girl dies after being tortured by a teacher. The little girl was unable to recite the English alphabets in order and the teacher hit her head on table and made her stand in the sun for 2 hours. The girl fainted, went into a coma and later died in the hospital.
This is the face of education in India. When I was 12 years old, my maths teacher beat me and palm...
If you go through this blog, what you’ll find is a lot of articles on the inefficiency and outright plain stupidity of the management at CUSAT..
This was so much so, that one time I asked Kenney, how come that MG University was never featured at all..
He replied that it was because he had no “first hand experience..”
Well, I have first hand experience, lots of it actually, and allow me to enlighten you…...
