This year’s CBSE and CISCE results being declared without a merit list is a positive step. Such lists only give students false ideas of success & create panic.
After cheering the ban on Chinese apps, the latest coping mechanism of Indian TV news seems to be focusing on the plight of the Uyghur Muslims in China.
In the wake of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, empathy flooded the internet. But then an influencer, with zero therapy knowledge, decided to charge Rs 1,500 to hear her fans out.
For many social media users, gangster Vikas Dubey was first and foremost a Brahmin — a ‘tiger’ whose killing is just another ‘atrocity’ on the community under 'Thakur' CM Yogi Adityanath.
Delhi University’s sports quota remains, but the Extra-Curricular Activities quota is scrapped due to Covid. If classes & exams can go online, why can’t trials for ECA?
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.
Provocations among Israel & Iran have prompted discussion on the need for India to broaden its air defence apparatus, given tensions with adversarial neighbours.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
No wonder we are criticised as a country where everyone strives to be ‘free loaders’.
There is no doubt that the system does induce stress but then, one way to look at it is to see it also as part of growing up. Not someone who ends his life at the end of a rope for getting getting a few marks less than he expected. These days psychologists are already speaking of training children to learn to life with failures.
That said, there is another truth about our education system as it is. And that is, it is a system created by a Briton to produce slavish clerks for the colonisers of those times. We have to change it, where children can be taught to learn what they want to learn and grow and develop themselves.
No wonder we are criticised as a country where everyone strives to be ‘free loaders’.
There is no doubt that the system does induce stress but then, one way to look at it is to see it also as part of growing up. Not someone who ends his life at the end of a rope for getting getting a few marks less than he expected. These days psychologists are already speaking of training children to learn to life with failures.
That said, there is another truth about our education system as it is. And that is, it is a system created by a Briton to produce slavish clerks for the colonisers of those times. We have to change it, where children can be taught to learn what they want to learn and grow and develop themselves.