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  1. Paging for unused pages

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    / April 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    An interesting and a very important initiative by the DM Foundation in Secunderabad. All it asks you to do is not to throw away unused pages from notebooks. Instead, it requests you to donate them to DM Foundation. The intention is to bind them and distribute them to the ones...

  2. 25 % more girls to take IIT exam this year

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    / April 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The IIT-JEE exam this year is being held on April 8. More than 5 lakh students will take the exam this year as compared to the 4.86 lacs applicants in 2011. Students would be competing for nearly 10,000 seats across the country in 15 Indian Institute of Technology (IITs); Institute...

  4. Future bombed

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    / March 22, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s clarification has failed to pacify me. After making a sweeping statement that “government schools breed naxalism and should be handed over to private players”, he has tried to do some damage-control, saying he was actually referring to “sick government schools in naxal-affected areas”. I would have...

  5. Tum ko Hindi aata kya?

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    / February 21, 2012 / 1 Comment
    My daughter, who is a senior at New York University, recently signed up for a Hindi class. When asked what motivated her to learn the Indian language, she replied, “I want to be able to watch Hindi movies without sub-titles”. The trouble began when she assumed that I was a...

  6. No volcano forms in a day

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    / February 10, 2012 / 2 Comments
    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...

  7. Who wants to be a water carrier? 23000 applicants

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    / February 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    This is the story of the other India that is a constant at employment exchanges across the country. `The Tribune‘ has a fascinating story from the Sector 26 Recruit Training Centre of the Chandigarh Police. The candidates are appearing for the Class IV post of water carriers in the Indian...

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    / January 18, 2012 /
    You cannot make friends or poke anyone if you are IIT Madras campus. That’s because the institution has blocked Facebook on campus. But not because of any moral hangups but because of the network that is getting clogged as a result. The Times of India reports that it is strange that...

  9. A salute to my teachers

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    / January 13, 2012 / Leave a comment
    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...

  10. Do IIMs train their students to become authors?

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    / January 7, 2012 / 3 Comments
    By G Mohan HT-Nielsen tracks the Indian book market since October 2010. The latest winning reads list has been published recently in `The Hindustan Times’. In the Top 10 list for fiction, two authors dominate – Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi. Chetan Bhagat, not surprisingly, tops the list with four books in...

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