EducationWorld November 2018

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J. Soujanya

J. Soujanya, joint-secretary, Nagarjuna Group of Institutions, Bangalore

Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Education is given top priority in all civilised societies around the world. It’s useful to remember what the great freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela said:
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you […]

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Big picture myopia

The sudden downgrade of the rating of the Infrastructure Leasing & Finance Services Ltd from AA to junk bond status in early September which triggered a panic on the stock exchanges and has wiped out investors wealth valued at Rs.2 lakh crore, is a riddle in a mystery wrapped inside an enigma.

But there is reason […]

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Brilliant & stupid

The detailed sexual harassment charges made against former star editor and media columnist M.J. Akbar, who was obliged to resign his office as Union minister of state for external affairs on October 17, have come as a great shock to your editor who worked conterminously with him in the Kolkata-based Ananda Bazar Patrika media group […]

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Limpet idiocracy leaders

There’s a peculiar armour-plate quality about India’s politicians whose lust for power is in inverse proportion to their capability to use it for the public good. No shame or scandal can disturb their determination to cling to seats of power, come hell or high water.

In the Congress party’s 1946 election for the post of president, […]