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…...

Today morning I got a call from a student whom I have been mentoring for his academic project. He wants to build a company and is planning to develop a web application for the SMB segment. I had suggested him to develop a free version of the product first with limited capabilities and test the market. The plan was to do it as his final year academic project. But now it looks like his HOD has some issue with PHP and MySQL. He wont...

“Today, in computer class, my teacher referred to “frames” as the newest and powerful development in web development. Bah !! “ I found this tweet here. This is an age when students are often smarter than the teachers. With the Internet and access to information at finger tips, students devour a lot of information everyday. This often puts teachers at a disadvantage because they are not used to using the...

What would you do if  your son drew a picture of yours ? Will you punish him for that ? Will you send him out of the house ? But this is exactly what happened in a school in Central Travancore. (Sorry guys, roots are in Central Travancore and that’s why I always keep getting stories from there). A 7th STD student was dismissed from the school for drawing a picture of the Principal. I too could not digest the story first...

Students are exploited in many ways by their staff, management and even the government. Read about exploitation using academic proects here. This is the story of a new and even more vicious exploitation. It also happened in a college in Central Travancore. The troubles started when the government issued some sort of lottery. These lotteries reached this particular college and the staff there made in mandatory that every student...

In one of my previous posts I mentioned about my cousin who is now repeating the entrance coaching even after getting a good rank. He wants to get into an IIT. He is so dedicated that he is not attending any family functions. Id say he is obsessed with the IIT dream. Yesterday I saw someone who will only study in CET. He thinks that he will be distinguished from the rest, if he studies in CET. Now that got me to think. Another...

A criminal case should be booked against the parents who send their kids to english medium schools. They are killing our beautiful language Malayalam and this is a serious crime which should be punished to the fullest extent of law. Says a professor of a Government school on national radio this morning. I almost spit the coffee I was drinking all over myself. Capital punishment for killing a language? I do make fun of friends who...