An untrained teacher, certainly not communal #Trypta Tyagi

video of a private school teacher Tripta Tyagi has gone viral. In the video, Teacher can be seen and heard asking her students in the class to slap another student, Altamas, who happened to belong to minority community, a muslim. As the video surfaced, outrage poured in by concerned citizens. Many were moved by the...

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose : A Neglected Hero #Blogaberry Dazzle 2021

My fourth blog post as part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla, and happily SPONSORED BY RRE Studios and SHOWCASE Events. More posts may be found here. -----x---- I was getting ready to write my last piece on farmer agitation at Delhi border, when Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birthday came on 23rd Jan,...

Man Making Education #WOW

  In India, so many things that need a better design for us citizens to feel comfortable, the list becomes endless. I think first and foremost thing that we need to redesign is the way we look at life. At home and at our educational institutes we must inculcate practice of honesty and integrity. Honest people...

Teach Students to Apply Their Minds #EducationSystem

In India, practical training is imparted mostly as part of college education. Students who choose a professional / job oriented course be it engineering or medicine or any other discipline have to undertake practical class and appear in examination. Based on my experience, a long time ago, most undergraduate laboratories used to be in shambles....

Education System : Parents Need to Change Mindset

"Education is the manifestation of perfections, already in a man" Swami Vivekananda has said this more than a century earlier. As I look into scenario today, it appears that we play a disproportionate importance into rote learning. There is very little interest in original thinking. It reflects in Indian research, which is mostly generic in...

Memory vs Application, Examination System Needs Revamp

Results of CBSE class XII is out. Scores have shot through the roof. Topper in science stream had scored 99.7% in aggregate of five subjects. That makes nearly 100% in science subjects of physics, chemistry, mathematics and English. Such a high score has created several problems for average students.  i. Too many students are competing...

Ms. Sheela Sharma, Salute the Dedicated Teacher

Very often we hear from the educated middle class of India, mostly people like us, how bad systems in this country are. Nothing can happen here. Many of us move to greener pastures of US, UK, Canada, Australia and so on. We hardly try to do something to make the difference on our own, let...

Prof. Amartya Sen and Nalanda University

Prof. Amartya Sen is an illustrious son of India. He is a nobel prize winning economist, that India can claim to be her own because he is an Indian citizen. Prof. Sen was conferred with Bharat Ratna, highest civilian award of India. Prof. Sen was appointed chairman of Nalanda Mentor Group in 2007 and in...

Good Business Bad Science

  India has many unique diseases both infectious as well as lifestyle related. It is important that Indian pharmaceutical industry invests in understanding basic biology behind such diseases and makes effort to discover drugs to treat these ailments.  India has a big pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical market in India is estimated to be upwards of 10...

More Universities Need of the Hour

  According to estimates, India must have 200 million graduates and 500 million skilled people by 2022 to ensure double digit economic growth. India is woefully short of good institutes of higher learning. Number of seats in existing institutes has been further reduced due to affirmative action. As a result students with grades as high as...