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  1. Thanksgiving on Teachers’ Day

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    / September 5, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan   What memory do I revive on teacher’s day? Do I revive the one on which we all learnt ‘Hajambo’ from the Kenya-returned Ms. Phil (which is ‘Hello’ in Swahili), and used it immediately (all forty of us together) on the amply endowed Ms. Pereira who...

  2. Can we aggregate Gyan?

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    / August 23, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By V Desikan   I watch cricket and also the news channels every single day. In the last week, I have listened to ever so many speeches, views and opinions on the Jan lokpal bill and the Lokpal bill.   I heard Anna, Arvind Kejriwal, Medha Patkar, Prashant Bhushan, Kiran...
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    Tagged knowledge, learning

  3. Learning, the Montessori way

    Posted by Sanjiv Bhamre
    / August 18, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Sanjiv Bhamre   Even a playschool today calls itself a Montessori school. But obviously every school isn’t one.    In the year 1939, the Theosophical Society of India extended an invitation to the Dr Maria Montessori, who had started her first Montessori school in Rome, Italy in 1907 as...
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    Tagged learning, montessori

  4. A smart, young MBA is like a toothpaste tube

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    / August 2, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Vijay Marur   For a couple of years, many years ago I handled a leading brand of toothpaste and worked on their advertising. And as was wont in those days the first thing I had to do was learn everything about the toothpaste, from its composition to its manufacture....
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    Tagged learning, mba, toothpaste

  5. Elections on a shoestring

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    / July 9, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By S V L Narayan   Nowadays most college and university elections are controlled by political parties. Enormous amount of money is spent in ‘buying’ votes and on producing campaign material. Violence is a common occurrence. There is no place for an average, middle-class student with aspirations of leadership to...

  6. Booking a job

    Posted by Hrishikesh N
    / June 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    `Ek teer do nishaane’ is what I advise when it comes to solving two major problems facing Andhra Pradesh and India.  First target concerns education and lack of text books. Every year at this time (June-July) children and parents are excited about the reopening of schools with parents buying new...

  7. The ‘angry’ demon

    Posted by Avs Srinivasa
    / June 27, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By A V S Srinivasa   The other day, at a function, I was witness to two young boys fighting over who should go fetch the ball while playing cricket. The fight took an ugly turn with one of them (who should be only 8-10 yrs) punching the other, much...

  8. India’s gen-next

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    / June 24, 2011 / Leave a comment
    In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice — Charles Dickens

  9. No, my darling daughter

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    / June 23, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By V Desikan   “Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk She says I began to sing long before I could talk And I’ve often wondered, how did it all start?”   - “Thank you for the Music” by Abba In the year 2000, my daughter’s life...

  10. In defence of Jairam Ramesh

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    / May 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan   Let me stick my neck out for the knives and say it frankly: Jairam Ramesh was right. The IITs and IIMs are good because of their students, not professors.   OK, now that the howls are over, may I begin to state my argument? I’m...

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